In the UK and the US, populism can’t stop a declining steel industry
Michael Murphy, 61, was born and raised in Scunthorpe, a small industrial city in the north of England that sprang up in the late 19th […]
International
Can humanity rise to the challenge of finding just solutions to the threat of coastal erosion?
How long will the fight last? Water is eroding land all over the world, threatening people’s lives and livelihoods, especially those living along the coastline. […]
Patriarchy’s counteroffensive: meet the international anti-feminism lobby
In August 2018, Argentina’s Senate rejected a bill to decriminalise abortion. Two months earlier, amid a historic gathering of the feminist movement on the streets, […]
America’s right is lobbying against South Africa’s sex education syllabus
Conservative “pro-family” advocacy groups with US ties are targeting increasingly inclusive sex education lesson plans being developed by the South African education department as part of the […]
Bolivia on a razor’s edge
The current political upheaval in Bolivia threatens to undo the reforms undertaken by Evo Morales over the last thirteen years, as well as the economic […]
In West Bengal farmers are resisting climate change and rising costs with indigenous rice
Two decades ago, when Pramila Mandal got married in the remote Indian village of Atapur in West Bengal, agriculture was considered men’s work. But ten […]
Safe sanitation for all: the least glamorous part of the battle against poverty
If the face is the mirror of the soul – as Cicero would have it – the toilet is the mirror of society as a […]
Farming in South Africa is under threat from climate change. Here’s how
There’s an assumption in the agricultural industry that the yields and prices of crops will vary according to local conditions as well as supply and […]
Battling with mistrust and poor working conditions, health workers face a difficult fight against Ebola in DRC
The handwashing and temperature reading stations set up in the most widely frequented places in Goma and on the roads leading to other urban centres […]
Mass protests in Latin America against the neoliberal model
“It’s not 30 pesos: it’s 30 years.” This slogan, one of the most frequently used in the mass protests in Chile, explains in seven words […]
Mining activities continue to dispossess black families in South Africa
Dispossession in South Africa is associated with the period of colonialism and apartheid. As a result, not much consideration is given to how previously marginalised […]
In Mexico, domestic workers are defending their labour and human rights
A 2013 study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) found that there were at least 52 million domestic workers in the world, the majority of them women. […]
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