As the United States confronts the unflinching demographic piper with the stark facts of reality, the new administration and Congress are denying, disengaging and dismantling. Across virtually every ...

Local communities are witnessing progress in their mission for justice, 36 years after the Panguna copper mine became the centre of landowner grievances.

Winds are also changing in trade policy. As they get rougher and more unpredictable, the much-criticised multilateral trade regime of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has so far proved surprisingly ...

After the lifting of a six-year moratorium on logging in public forests, trucks ferrying logs are seen on highways in ...

When UN Secretary-General António Guterres appeared before the Rohingya refugees to join an iftar party in Ukhiya refugee camp, he was greeted by thousands.

In these turbulent and sad times, it is hard to keep quiet about abuses and violations of human rights taking place around the world; in eastern DR Congo, South Sudan, Ukraine, and Gaza. Among the ...

The Siddi community, descendants of slaves from Africa, is now becoming more involved with mainstream enterprises, including a forest homestay venture ...

In the “Pact for the Future”, adopted by consensus by the United Nations General Assembly last September, Member States came together to recognize these challenges and to agree on a series of ...

After three years of bloodshed, the people of Ukraine are in limbo as peace negotiations, instigated by the US President, remain unpredictable.

The recent student movement in Bangladesh demanding reform of the quota system for public jobs led a ‘march of the people’ ...

Since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan nearly four years ago, human rights have begun diminishing for over 14 million women. Heightened gender inequality has exacerbated the pre-existing ...

Michigan’s probate law covers the process of administering a deceased person’s estate and guarantees that the person’s assets are divided in accordance with either the will or, in the absence of a ...