Hundreds of police stations set on fire by protesters in Iran. A thousand public buildings attacked by rebels from ...

Mariam Barghouti explores how the Israeli occupation is transforming the landscapes and soundscapes of the West Bank, and the ...

The wide-eyed child, smiling or starving, is the most powerful fundraiser for aid agencies. But no matter how effective the image, the message can be very destructive. Paddy Coulter explains.

Mohammad Asif Khan maps how shared nationalist ideology and a booming arms trade formed a bond between the governments of India and Israel. The arms trade is bad for both people and the planet. We ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...

Eiad Husham traces the UAE’s long game for access to the Red Sea – a strategy built through ports, airports and infrastructure projects, and driven by ambitions to secure maritime power and regional ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has perhaps the richest concentration of precious metals and minerals on earth. Colette Braeckman describes how their exploitation by warring factions has fuelled the ...

It was a movement that reverberated on campuses from Cape Town to Oxford. Musawenkosi Cabe speaks to activists who were part of the high-profile push to decolonize universities and challenge white ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...