Making Waves

Ikal Angelei is winning the fight to save Lake Turkana from Ethiopia’s Gibe III dam.

Filed in: Dams Kenya

Indian activist Bunker Roy is bringing electric light to rural villages by training up grandmothers as solar engineers, reports Georgia Hanias.

Filed in: Ageing Energy Sustainability Women

The 71-year-old legend of social movement politics in India shows no signs of slowing down, as Richard Swift discovers.

Filed in: Democracy India Nuclear Power Social Change

Krystian Legierski believes the tide is turning in Poland. He speaks to James Gray about his struggles against a notoriously homophobic and xenophobic administration.

Filed in: Poland

Exiled singer Sultan Kurash has become a symbol of liberation for Uyghurs still under the thumb of Chinese occupation.

Filed in: China

Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini has devoted her career to campaigning against ‘honour killings’

Interview with Parvin Ardalan who is at the heart of the struggle for women's rights in Iran.

Filed in: Feminism Iran

Leading voice for indigenous rights, Hugo Blanco.

Filed in: Activism Environment Indigenous Peoples Peru

Campaigner Vis Navaratnam on new drugs for neglected diseases.

Filed in: Pharmaceuticals

Horatio Morpurgo writes from the devastated coast of Galicia in the wake of the Prestige disaster.

Filed in: Oil Spain

Exiled Burmese activist Myint Myint Wai recalls her desperate time in prison.

Filed in: Burma