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Elder Taharakau Stewart (in the middle with cane), is joined by other Māori people during a ceremony in Berlin, Germany on 29 April 2019. The event marked the handing back of the remains of ancestors which had been held as part of Charité – Berlin University of Medicine’s former anthropology collections. JÖRG CARSTENSEN/DPA/ALAMY

For centuries, museums have held human remains as artefacts. Hana Pera Aoake explored what can be learned...

A man looks at the Qoloji displacement camp, the largest in Ethiopia. EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr

A court case shows the continent’s demand for social media companies to be accountable for their impact offline, columnist...

A woman sits at a table looking at a mobile phone.

The taboo around sex outside of marriage means it can be hard to access safe pregnancy termination. But a recent court ruling...

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...

The tagline of Iran’s recent prowomen’s movement is translated from a Kurdish slogan which neatly captures the ideology of the Kurdish feminist revolution. Here a mural displays the Kurdish original. HERZI PINKI/CREATIVE COMMONS

Rahila Gupta examines the precursor to Iran’s ‘first feminist revolution in the world’: a Kurdish feminist...

A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The Municipal Corporation in Chandigarh pays a 22,044 USD per month to rent the watches. ASMA HAFIZ

Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in...

Around 700 families were evicted from the  Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, India  in November 2017, following an order of the  Guwahati High Court.  ZUMA PRESS /ALAMY

A target to turn 30 per cent of the world’s land into protected areas for nature by 2030 is set to be agreed by world...

A group of women are pictured tending to vegetables in Koyli Alpha, Senegal, in 2019. They were taking part in the Great Green Wall project which hopes to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land across the African continent by 2030. Simon Townsley/Panos

It brings power and wealth to whoever holds it, but land should be treated as a public good, argues Amy Hall...

Illustration shows a couple with a baby gazing on to a green pastured horizon with birds gathering in the air. Image created by Julie Flett for We Sang You  Home by Richard Van Camp, published by Orca  Book Publishers

Riley Yesno explores some of the ways the Indigenous-led movement is redistributing land and wealth in...

Husna Ara plots the path to shame-free learning.

An illustration by Syrian artist Haya Halaw depicts a woman refugee holding a minature house on fire.

Who is better placed to cover forced migration than refugees themselves? Bairbre Flood reports on the...

Dave Bangs speaks to a crowd of  ‘mass trespassers’. 

Hundreds of people take part in a ‘mass trespass’ to save an ancient woodland under threat from the development of a Center...

Satellite view of Lake Mead, US, taken on 19 July 2022 during a drought. It shows how little water there is and dry ground around it.

It’s naive to assume that rich countries will escape the impacts of a changing climate, argues Nanjala Nyabola...

Agony uncle: Is the language of oppression being weaponized to the point of meaninglessness?

A troubled reader fears they are unfairly being accused of gaslighting, manipulation and abuse by their friends. Agony...

A person draped in a blue, green, red and yellow Mapuche flag stands with their back to the camera, looking towards a gas plant in the distance

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Grace...

Russia’s invasion has triggered cost rises and staple shortages. Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo examines the crisis...

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