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India’s farmers won’t stop protesting until Modi’s unfair agricultural reforms are repealed

27th January 2021 Equal Times 0

Narayan Gaikwad has sent 250 postcards to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and intends to send 300 more. Written meticulously, he wants to draw attention […]

Why the Omnibus Law is not only an assault on workers’ rights but also on Indonesia’s SDG progress

8th December 2020 Equal Times 0

Besides a raging Covid-19 pandemic that has seen Indonesia produce the second highest confirmed death toll in Asia after India, widespread opposition to President Joko […]

Despite reforms, patriarchal systems continue to hinder land ownership by African women

3rd December 2020 Equal Times 0

Despite recent advancements in land reforms across Africa, women and girls are still hugely disadvantaged, according to a recent meeting of experts. The 2020 Africa Land […]

Human settlements MEC urges the arrest of “illegal land grab” leaders

5th August 2020 Vincent Lali 0

Land occupiers promise to return to land they are evicted from as they cannot afford to rent the backyard shacks they stayed in before.

Can humanity rise to the challenge of finding just solutions to the threat of coastal erosion?

5th December 2019 Equal Times 0

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. […]

In West Bengal farmers are resisting climate change and rising costs with indigenous rice

22nd November 2019 Equal Times 0

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 […]

“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 […]

Sowing the seeds of peace in South Sudan

17th April 2019 Equal Times 0

Almost a month to go ahead of the traditional rainy season in Gbudue State, 430 kilometres west of South Sudan’s capital city of Juba, smallholder […]

The silent death of workers in India

8th April 2019 Equal Times 0

Every morning, groups of men squat on the pavement in the streets of Delhi and wait for a truck to pick them up and bring […]

Can Saint-Louis be saved from the sea?

13th August 2018 Equal Times 0

“You see? Right there, two metres down!” The water is murky and choppy, but it is still possible to see the roofs of some small […]

Illegal logging and poverty fuel local tensions in southern Senegal

13th June 2018 Equal Times 0

In the early hours of 6 April 2018 Mustapha Gueye awoke to the buzz of a chainsaw outside his home in Sam Yero Gueye, a […]

In DR Congo, the world’s second largest forest is being ravaged as landless communities struggle for their rights

16th May 2018 Equal Times 0

Thousands of logs loaded into makeshift boats at the port of Inongo at Lake Mai-Ndombe stand ready to be transported to Kinshasa, the capital of […]

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