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Jose Caceres, a migrant who was deported back to Honduras, holds up a picture of his sons. He was separated from his 11-year-old Brayan (right) five months ago as they tried to enter the US. Brayan is now living in a shelter in Maryland. Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/PA Images

2 Mar 2020 6 minute read

Deported by Silicon Valley

Governments are increasingly using surveillance and big data to track immigrants. Gaby del Valle reports...

1 Mar 2020 1 minute read

How we make poverty

Poverty requires a system change against the undervaluing of everything that poor people do only to expand the fortunes of...

28 Feb 2020 3 minute read

Hall of infamy: Luis Almagro

Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States, shows off some nifty moves.

28 Feb 2020 4 minute read

The news we all deserve

How do we get news that is true – and in the public interest – to the places it does not reach, asks Vanessa Baird...

27 Feb 2020 18 minute read

The age of development: an obituary

‘Development’ has long been reframed and hijacked, but, Wolfgang Sachs argues, we need to move beyond its...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at the opening of the UK-Africa Investment Summit, in London, 20 January 2020. Picture: DFID/Michael Hughes

26 Feb 2020 7 minute read

The bleak future of British foreign aid

The government’s ‘international development’ strategy is a red herring for dubious private financing, argues Nick Dearden...

2018 saw a record high in global carbon emissions.

24 Feb 2020 9 minute read

The poverty of progress

Our understanding of progress perpetuates poverty, inequality and climate change. Martin Kirk and ...

Throughout history migrants have often been treated as a source of disease and ‘contagion’. Immigrant children are examined on arrival at Ellis Island, New York, 1911. Credit: Bettmann/Getty

18 Feb 2020 7 minute read

How fear infected the border

Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

18 Feb 2020 7 minute read

‘If they suppress BDS, no other movement is safe’

As alarming, anti-democratic measures are aimed at Palestine solidarity activists in the UK and beyond, Husna Rizvi...

While homosexuality is not illegal in Equatorial Guinea, neither is homophobia, creating a legal vacuum.

17 Feb 2020 21 minute read

‘I didn’t want to be a mother’

Trifonia Melibea Obono records the unheard stories of queer women living in the West African state of...

13 Feb 2020 1 minute read

The Walk

The Walk is a provocative and unsettling novel about the morality of charity, the media and public relations....

Europe-bound. Migrant travellers from Togo en route to Italy after being rescued by Spanish rescue NGO Open Arms, February 2017. David Ramos/Getty

12 Feb 2020 11 minute read

Freedom to move – for everyone

Hazel Healy unpicks the workings of mobility apartheid.

Junaid is one of 40 people convicted of this charge currently waiting on death row.

12 Feb 2020 2 minute read

A brutal blasphemy verdict

Another prisoner of conscience falls victim to Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws.

The occupation began with a 13-foot Trojan Horse being hauled into the Great Court by activists, and culminated in a 1,500-strong protest at the BP-sponsored exhibit ‘Troy: Myth and Reality’. Credit: Hugh Warwick

11 Feb 2020 4 minute read

Inside the Trojan horse

BP or not BP activist Phil Ball on the love, sweat, and ingenuity of the unprecedented 51-hour creative...

A riot police officer with a Bolivian flag is seen in Sacaba, on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Danilo Balderrama

14 Feb 2020 3 minute read

Democracy in peril in Bolivia

Amy Booth on reports on why Bolivia's upcoming election is unlikely to be free and fair.

7 Feb 2020 3 minute read

During a climate crisis, is flying acceptable?

Agony Uncle weighs in on a carbon-conscious reader's dilemma.

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