Discount stores have been in North America for half a century but there’s not a lot to celebrate says Wayne Roberts.
Filed in: Politics Trade United States Work
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Discount stores have been in North America for half a century but there’s not a lot to celebrate says Wayne Roberts.
Filed in: Politics Trade United States Work
Peru’s gold rush threatens indigenous communities’ right to water. Roxana Olivera meets one of the faces behind the struggle, Máxima Acuña.
Filed in: Indigenous Peoples Mining Peru Water
Planners turning a deaf ear to local traders ignore the community at their peril says Horatio Morpurgo.
The current YouTube ban in Bangladesh is symptomatic of a government unwilling to embrace the 21st century, says Shahidul Alam.
Filed in: Bangladesh Technology
Dan Hancox on the skilled young people who, after thirty years of Spanish democracy, are finding their options increasingly limited.
The discontent voiced at last week’s general strike is being echoed across Europe, say Tim Baster and Isabelle Merminod.
City gardeners and construction developers may be strange bed-fellows – but it’s a promising union, writes Wayne Roberts.
Filed in: Cities Sustainability
Legal outcomes could ‘open the floodgates’ for companies to challenge generic drug production, keeping prices high, explains Nick Harvey.
If you thought the global Occupy movement skipped over sub-Saharan Africa, you’d be wrong, as Joe Hani explains.
In direct response to increasing censorship, creative acts of resistance are springing up in Lebanon, says Giedre Steikunaite.
Amy Hall meets Filipino campaigner Lidy Nacpil, who shares her thoughts on floods, solidarity and ramming home the climate-change message.
Filed in: Climate Change Debt Philippines
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.
As a young student is injured for wearing the ‘wrong’ clothes, Mari Marcel Thekeakara says that women will fight on against violence.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara’s home is on the edge of a wildlife sanctuary, which is a pleasure and a pain, as she explains.