Recent editions have touched on something called the Fossil Fuel Treaty, which is an initiative that aims to build an ...

Senegal has strong constitutional guarantees for civil liberties like the rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and religion. But it has faced recent challenges, including politically motivated ...

Men are killing more and more women in Brazil. In response, thousands of women took to the streets on 6 and 7 December, in ...

The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), held every two years, unites millions across the continent in a celebration of African men ...

This brief moment, on 15 December, drew widespread disgust but it also attracted support and appreciation from the Hindu ...

The activist and campaigner on the treaty to end fossil fuel extraction, and why a free Palestine is inextricably linked with climate justice The award-winning author and illustrator describes the ...

Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on the Easter Sunday massacre in Sri Lanka and provides a glimpse of a more hopeful future in India as voting in the country’s general election begins.

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...