Indonesia is currently overseeing the world’s biggest ever deforestation project in West Papua, while new research shows the ...

The illegal abduction by the Trump administration of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro demonstrates with brutal clarity how ...

Salman Abu Sitta examines how millions of displaced Palestinians could finally go home. On 11 December 1948, the day after the UN agreed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN passed ...

To deal with the social and environmental crises of the 21st century, we need rapid deployment of renewable energy, public ...

The port of Genoa itself also has a long history of standing with oppressed people. In the 1970s, dockworkers there helped a ship deliver aid to war-ravaged Vietnam. When CALP was formed around 15 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adverts gleam with promises of transformation and transcendence – via material objects. Jean Kilbourne decodes this gigantic propaganda effort. A recent ad for Thule car-rack systems features a child ...

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 ...

What does it mean to be happy in a modern consumer society? John F Schumaker argues that our entire socio-economic system is designed to spew out citizens eternally in search of satisfaction. *‘The ...