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20 Jul 2015 3 minute read

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Don’t ‘beautify’ Nairobi just for Barack!

In the run-up to Obama’s visit, is Kenya sweeping its poverty under the carpet? Moses Wasamu reports.

29 Jun 2015 5 minute read

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Rohingyas in Canada: portraits of life and struggle

Colin Boyd Shafer documents a community’s resilience in the face of adversity.

2 Jun 2015 3 minute read

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Government intrusion and the loss of human rights

14 years of fighting the ‘war on terror’ has left us all less secure, says Amit Singh.

29 May 2015 3 minute read

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What can Mad Max tell us about water scarcity?

Beulah Devaney finds an unexpected message in the Hollywood blockbuster.

21 May 2015 4 minute read

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Prison store rip-offs

Brandon Astor Jones on getting a raw deal from money-driven jails.

6 May 2015 4 minute read

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Why should quacks get to practise on prisoners?

Incompetent doctors should not be allowed to treat us, argues Brendon Astor Jones.

21 Apr 2015 4 minute read

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Prisons in Georgia are plantations

The old master and slave mentality is alive and kicking, writes Brandon Astor Jones.

17 Apr 2015 3 minute read

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The day the Monroe Doctrine died?

Stephen Wilkinson analyses the implications of Cuba’s comeback from the political freeze.

9 Apr 2015 5 minute read

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Of friend and foe

Sustained by support from the outside, Brandon Astor Jones faces enemies daily within the prison walls.

1 Apr 2015 3 minute read

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Ending corporate rule

Can we find a way to loosen big business's stranglehold on the US? asks Mark Engler.

27 Mar 2015 3 minute read

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Help put BP on trial for gross deception!

A detective flashmob at the British Museum will expose Big Oil’s dirty secrets. Chris Garrard invites you to...

19 Mar 2015 4 minute read

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Prison as a place of healing

Death Row inmate Brandon Astor Jones asks the world to wake up to an enlightened approach to incarceration in...

1 Mar 2015 3 minute read

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: let's not work together

Obama has chosen the wrong issue on which to embrace collaboration, says Mark Engler.

19 Feb 2015 6 minute read

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Who are the real sociopaths in prison?

Look to the keepers, not the kept, says Brandon Astor Jones.

4 Feb 2015 6 minute read

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We are prisoners, but we are human

A letter from death-row inmate Brandon Astor Jones complaining about demeaning treatment is still waiting for...

4 Feb 2015 3 minute read

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Living with fracking

What’s it like to live next door to the fracking rigs? Six photographers spent two years in gas-rich Pennsylvania trying to...

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