Remembrance must include Britain’s colonial legacy
Anu Shukla reports from Smethwick, where a statue has been unveiled that commemorates the role of Britain’s colonized populations in the First World War.
Labour’s pledges on prisons don’t go far enough
The UK has the highest amount of prisoners in Western Europe. Any progressive agenda must end mass incarceration. Community Action on Prison Expansion pen an open letter.
Is trade in turmoil a chance for justice?
The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in the first of an eight-article exploration?
Peace talks need women
Women in war zones are the best peace-makers, yet they rarely get a place at negotiation tables dominated by men. Iranian gender activist and senior adviser to the UN Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini is working to change that…
Business interests have hijacked the UN food summit
Small farmers, social movements and human rights are being elbowed out, says Kirtana Chandrasekaran.
‘If they kill me, they kill me’
Indigenous human-rights defender Virginia Pinares talks to Vanessa Baird about mining in Peru and why she needs to enter national politics.
How Turkey is winning hearts and minds in Somalia
Jamal Osman reports on the rise of the new humanitarians in Somalia.
Country profile: Belarus
Alexey Sakhnin considers the country that made international headlines for massive anti-government protests in 2020 and from which Russia launched its recent invasion of Ukraine.
Who cares? Humanitarianism under threat
Hazel Healy investigates the challenges facing 21st century disaster response.
Is criminalization the right response to domestic violence?
Are legal punishments an effective way to tackle domestic violence, or are they failing to go to the heart of the problem? Leigh Goodmark and Stella Nyanzi go head to head.
The storm which Netanyahu unleashed
With mounting corruption charges to his name, Israel’s Prime Minister is benefiting from militarized, brutal distractions in Gaza. Adam Keller writes.
100 years of hope, struggle and betrayal
The Kurdish quest for freedom and independence has been long, dramatic and complicated. Here’s a potted history of the past century.
Kashmir’s ever-present torture chambers
Umar Lateef Misgar reports on an alleged victim of the policing crackdown in Kashmir: a school teacher who was found tortured to death.
‘I was ready to do whatever it took to bring peace’
Death threats delivered by bleeding amputees were not enough to deter Betty Bigombe from trying to make peace between Joseph Kony’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan government of Yoweri Museveni.
Killing of protesters sparks early elections
Vanessa Baird traces how Peru’s political turmoil swiftly tipped into bloody state violence.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse
A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard Swift. We may never get a better chance for a new normal.
Lloyd’s of London’s debt
What would be the cost of reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and ongoing support of fossil fuels? Sahar Shah and Harpreet Kaur Paul explore the Lloyd’s insurance market.
Spotlight: DJ Switch
DJ Switch, a 13-year-old campaigner for children’s rights and all-round powerhouse, talks with Subi Shah.
