In today’s major global conflicts – in Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan – the UN’s role has largely been in the area of a ...

As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.

The ICJ ruling shook the global establishment. In Cape Town and Johannesburg, Conrad Landin asks if it could pave the way for justice for Indigenous peoples. South Africa is losing its status as an ...

A feminist movement is pushing back against street harassment in Addis. Maya Misikir reports. Garry Lotulung captures residents of Selopamioro, on the island of Java, Indonesia, as they set up their ...

As extremists run rampant in Israel’s halls of power, Zoe Holman traces the origins of apartheid and its effects for Palestinians pushing back on the ground. The Strip is under renewed assault by ...

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 ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...

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How to finance a Green New Deal that is truly global? Fadhel Kaboub has a proposal that builds in colonial and climate reparations. A student takes part in the September 2019 Global Climate Strike in ...

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous ...

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