Open Democracy

  • Babies Behind Bars

    One hundred babies are born in prisons in England and Wales each year, yet there's no universal standard for what prisons have to provide for pregnant women—in extreme cases, some have been left to clean their cell after miscarrying.

  • Finland is Now Crowd-Sourcing New Laws Online

    Iceland crowd-sourced its new constitution. The U.K. government lets online petitioners get their proposals heard (kind of maybe) if they can collect 100,000 upvotes. But Finland just might have taken the longest stride yet into the great e-democracy...

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