Brazil’s public universities are in crisis
It’s the night of 2 September 2018 and Brazil’s National Museum is burning. Jean-François Evran, professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de […]
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Colombia is the deadliest country for human rights defenders, with one activist killed every three days since the 2016 peace agreement
The assassination of human rights defenders is a plague that has been spreading in recent years. Latin America is the worst affected: 85 per cent […]
Congolese trade unionist Joséphine Shimbi Umba: “We say ’protect the workers’, but which workers are we talking about if only 2.5 per cent have formal jobs?”
Joséphine Shimbi Umba is vice president of gender, the informal economy and finance at the Trade Union Confederation of Congo (La Confédération Syndicale du Congo, […]
As Kerala succumbs to the sea, the Indian government ramps up coastal construction
Between June and August this year, the southern Indian state of Kerala experienced the heaviest rainfall it had seen in over a century. More than […]
Women and children bear the brunt of Cameroon’s conflict
On 7 September 2018, hundreds of women rallied in a stadium in the city of Bamenda, in the north-west region of Cameroon to protest multiple […]
Lifting the lid on the black box of informal trade in Africa
The share of internal trade in Africa remains low, as reflected by official statistics. This is despite numerous regional trade agreements that have led to […]
Women make a difference in Brazilian politics and activism
The 7 October vote is very unlikely to end the suspense and we will have to wait until the second round later in the month, […]
Why Namibians want fresh impetus behind land reform
Twenty-eight years after independence, wealth in Namibia is still skewed along racial lines laid down in the colonial period. The level of inequality is one […]
The Egyptian mothers battling to establish paternity – and rights – for their children
Her eyes full of resolve and anguish, Samah Abdel Salam, a 36-year-old journalist working for the daily newspaper Al-Ahram explains to the family court judge […]
New movements to continue where the Arab Spring left off
A lecture by Adam Hanieh sheds light on where the uprisings that started in North Africa and spread to the Middle East in 2011, are today.
They survived hell, now reluctant returnees help tackle Gambia’s migrant problem
Despite an arduous journey through known trafficking hotspots, Mustapha Sallah’s dream of a new life in Germany ended in Libya. “The day the police arrested […]
Venezuela: where a crisis and a “gold rush” are creating an environmental disaster
Under glass displays, nappies and coffee are sold as luxury items in the supermarkets of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Customers’ baskets are mostly empty. […]
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