The Majority World Blog

Despite all the hardships, a school for indigenous children in the Philippines is a story of hope, courage and inspiration.

Give poor people cash, not free or subsidized food, argue certain economists. The poor insist that food makes more sense, reports Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

Public schools in the Philippines are a vivid portrait of the country’s economy, says Iris Gonzales. She visits one such school. 

‘These terrorists are cowards and the worst enemies of their own people.’ Why do innocent people have to pay with their lives for the sins of evil politicians, asks Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

Mari Marcel Thekaekara salutes Indian Supreme Court’s verdict that arming civilians to take on supposed Naxals – leftwing extremists according to the government – is unconstitutional. 

Cancer has been largely sidelined in Africa, but a new Kenya-based foundation gives hope for the millions of cancer sufferers in the continent, writes Sokari Ekine.  

Sokari Ekine embarks on a journey to find if justice was served for Africans in Britain in the eighteenth century, before notions of race and racism were constructed.

After Malta voted in favour of divorce legalization, the Philippines is now the only country in the world which still bans divorce. Iris Gonzales says her country should be ashamed.

Whatever the ouctome, the rape case against former IMF boss Dominique Strauss Kahn has opened up debates about predatory males the world over, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

Millions of Filipinos are condemned to live overseas as illegal immigrants. It’s ironic that their own, inadequate government hails them as ‘heroes’, writes Iris Gonzales.

Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on the contradictions of what feminism is to her and what it isn’t.