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The Jubilee 2000 saw $130bn of debt written off, and yet we now find ourselves in a renewed global debt crisis, says Maria Finnerty of CafodThe Guardian is right to identify the global sovereign debt crisis as one of the most critical impediments to su…
Read MoreFrom a karaoke-singing paramedic on a boat in Bangladesh to a proud campaigner for a queer museum in Namibia, these are some of the figures who raised our hopes for humanityRaquel Fortun is one of only two forensic pathologists in the Philippines. Earl…
Read MoreCrackdowns on financiers, roiling political climate and slowing economy under Xi Jinping has many seeking exit plansBillionaires are notoriously difficult to track. It’s no surprise – the easier they and their assets are to find, the easier they are to…
Read MoreSouth Asians today are between four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people. While the role of diet and lifestyle has been explored, it’s only recently that the impact of the disproportionate famines under British colonial ru…
Read MoreAnger is still seen as admirable in men but unacceptable in women. It’s time to end the tyranny of gendered emotionsWhen the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team was banned for two matches and fined for smashing the stumps with her bat in an angr…
Read MoreThe United Nations general assembly liveblog is now closed, but please see the following stories to stay on top of the day’s news:Zelenskiy accuses Russia of genocide and urges world leaders to attend peace summitWorld inching ever closer to a great fr…
Read MoreThe Taliban have barred us from the workplace, cut our access to healthcare and closed schools to us. Must we struggle alone?We suddenly all woke in the middle of the night. A piercing cry came from the corner of our room. It was my teenage sister, sob…
Read MoreThe pandemic showed us how digital divides worsen inequality – this project shows they’re not inevitableDigital poverty and exclusion hide in plain sight. In an era of hyper-connectivity, millions are left in the shadows, even in the wealthiest countr…
Read MoreTop tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children workSome of the world’s leading tea manufacturers, including Tetley and Lipton, are examining working conditions on the planta…
Read MoreBabysitting is all very well, but to truly lighten a woman’s load, partners must juggle physical, emotional and cognitive labour‘Like many men of my generation, I wanted to be a more present father than my own had been.” As I read the first sentence of…
Read MoreRajendra Kumar Kale responds to an article by Arundhati Roy on how Narendra Modi’s violent nationalism is underwritten by big businessArundhati Roy’s article (Modi’s model is at last revealed for what it is: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by bi…
Read MoreReaders respond to Afua Hirsch’s article calling for Britain to confront the painful truth of its colonial pastAfua Hirsch’s article explicitly describes the everlasting damage created in the name of colonialism (This is a Britain that has lost its Que…
Read MoreUN mission accused Taliban authorities of harassing UN Afghan female employeesA UN expert has described the “staggering repression” of women and girls in Afghanistan, as the UN mission in the country accused Taliban authorities of harassing its female …
Read MoreColonialism and its aftereffects have left regions such as south Punjab resource-starved, poverty-stricken and deeply vulnerable to floodwatersDevastating flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 1,100 people this summer, injuring and displacing thous…
Read MoreFemale anchors post pictures of themselves being ‘erased’ on orders of virtue and vice ministryAfghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air, the country’s biggest media outlet has said.The order came in…
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