Van Rooy is the community outreach coordinator at The Green Connection, a non-profit that has played a key role in this opposition. They work directly with at-risk communities to raise awareness of ...

Today coloniality pervades our lives to the point that for many is not recognizable. So often it is defended as ‘culture’.

Is there an ethical way to own a pet cat? Our Agony Uncle advises.

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 ...

Anti-abortion campaigners have their sights set on Ethiopia – a progressive outlier in a region marred by restrictions. Who’s behind the emboldened ‘pro-life’ movement and what’s at stake for women’s ...

Israel is at the forefront of the booming spyware industry that threatens human rights, press freedom and democracy worldwide. An Israeli soldier puts her hand under a mini drone in Beersheba, a city ...

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 ...

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 ...

The state is in retreat. So guess who’s in charge? Why you, of course. At least that’s what the dominant political rhetoric from Right and Left would have us believe, argues Neil Vallelly.

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 ...

Indonesia’s nickel-rich Halmahera island has become a victim of the world’s rush for critical minerals. Neelanjana Rai explores the damage. Graeme Green on the cash transfer schemes that promise ...

Southern governments are captive to the demands of international capital, which prevents them from meeting their people’s real needs. MMT offers a way out, says Jason Hickel. Global South countries ...