Lia Yewen is an Indigenous Miyah woman working to protect her ancestral land. Through her work with the Jakarta-based NGO ...

Eiad Husham traces the UAE’s long game for access to the Red Sea – a strategy built through ports, airports and infrastructure projects, and driven by ambitions to secure maritime power and regional ...

Palm-oil corporations are threatening the rich rainforests Liberians depend on. Veronique Mistiaen hears from environmental lawyer Alfred Brownell, who’s doing all he can to safeguard them.

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

What is a corporation? Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary defines it as 'an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility'. It is a legal construct, a charter granted by the ...

A promotional video on BP’s website portrays beaming, empowered West Papuan workers, proud to operate the company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) site in Tangguh, West Papua. This little-known project, ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...

Witness the growth spurt in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and you would be forgiven for thinking the world becomes a more caring place every day. These legions of not-for-profit groupings that ...

Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton. If you needed somewhere to meet for left-wing ...

Microsoft's former CEO has made record-breaking donations to global health programmes – but an investigation by Andrew Bowman reveals some unpleasant side-effects. Last year, Bill Gates reminisced in ...

As the cost of living crisis becomes entrenched, Nick Dowson examines the scene of the crime, tracks down the culprits and proposes a route to resolution. As the cost of living crisis becomes ...