Threatened by Chinese scientific and technological advances, the US has dragooned European countries through the North ...

The modern failures of the United Nations are not an aberration – but a product of its imperial roots, argues Conrad Landin. So how can we create a functioning system for global co-operation? 'Take me ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can you really put a price on nature? Anthony Lang’at reports on a controversial scheme seen as innovative and beneficial by some and carbon colonialism by others. With majestic Mount Kenya to its ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in many Indian cities. A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The ...

Who doesn’t love a tale of courage? They pop up in all cultures, traditions and eras. From shepherd-boy David facing giant Goliath, to Gilgamesh defeating the monster Humbaba, to Harry Potter and ...

Palestine’s poets, novelists, musicians and journalists have not only voiced their people’s liberation struggle but also driven it. Decca Muldowney charts their role in resisting annihilation and ...

They’re either Libyans or migrants but all of them have at least one thing in common: they’re black. It’s a stigma which makes life even harder in a country where chaos is the only rule, reports ...

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 ...