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Around the world, activists are campaigning for menstrual dignity

13th September 2019 Equal Times 0

After Gemma Abbott began volunteering with The Red Box Project, a community initiative that distributes free menstrual products and underwear to young women in the UK, […]

Emboldened by the state, Brazil’s militias are operating with increasing impunity

2nd September 2019 Equal Times 0

In March 2018, news of the assassination of Marielle Franco reverberated around the world. As the first black, queer woman from a favela to be elected to […]

“We will continue until we win,” say the Turkish protesters taking on a major Canadian mining project

26th August 2019 Equal Times 0

At a teahouse in the tiny village of Karaibrahimler in Turkey’s lush north-western Biga Peninsula, older male residents sitting at a table debate with young […]

In the US, big banks are divesting from private prisons, thanks to anti-ICE activism

21st August 2019 Equal Times 0

Major private prison firms CoreCivic and GEO Group stand to lose 72 percent — about US$1.9 billion — of their private financing as major banks […]

The faces behind the oil America went to war for

5th July 2019 Equal Times 0

Despite the geopolitical importance of Iraq’s oil, and the central role that oil played in its invasion by a US-led coalition in March 2003, 16 […]

“Challenging power isn’t polite and beautiful”: Dr Stella Nyanzi and the right to impolite in Uganda

1st July 2019 Equal Times 0

To mark her 45th birthday on 16 June 2019, Ugandan academic and activist Dr Stella Nyanzi released 45 poems from the Luzira Maximum Security Prison, […]

In Turkey, the right to freedom of association and unionisation remains under threat

7th June 2019 Equal Times 0

With their faces wrapped in traditional white scarves, they spend hours in silence at the gates of the country’s prisons: more than 45 days outside […]

Civil society organisations in Mexico are hanging in the balance following the government’s decision to cancel funding

4th June 2019 Equal Times 0

Aurelia’s husband used to beat her at night while her daughters were asleep. In the morning the girls would notice her bruises and ask if […]

Why South Africa should seriously consider taxing its wealthy citizens

23rd May 2019 Ingrid Woolard 0

This is an edited extract from a chapter in the recently published The state of the nation: poverty & inequality: diagnosis, prognosis and responses. It’s well-established […]

Rail activists demand answers from the President

10th April 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

After getting stuck on a train to Pretoria, President Ramaphosa got cornered by commuters protesting passenger rail services in Cape Town.

Why restructuring South Africa’s power utility won’t end the blackouts

29th March 2019 Seán Mfundza Muller 0

Recent power cuts and the announcement that South Africa’s power utility Eskom will be receiving R23billion (about USD$1.5billion) a year in government support for the foreseeable future are symptomatic […]

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Hearings on work conditions at Khayelitsha District Hospital bring no changes

8th March 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

Last week, Nehawu and other witnesses raised concerns about victimisation of staff and poor working conditions at the Khayelitsha District Hospital.

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