Legal systems are falling short on war-time justice, argues Rosebell Kagumire. When Uganda asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the north of ...

‘Madame Pelicot is not an outlier,’ says Mark. ‘This abuse hides in the very place where a person should be safest: the home. Lawyers are trained to look for evidence. Victims often live with ...

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Kate M is a freelance journalist and foreign correspondent focused on the Middle East and South Asia. Based in Egypt, she reports on environmental change, geopolitical dynamics, and progressive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...

An international treaty to phase out fossil fuels is picking up momentum, reports Danny Chivers. ‘You can feel the heat in the water.’ For Gillian Cooper, the impacts of the climate crisis are very ...

As the US militarizes the Caribbean, Colin Bogle speaks to the people speaking out, despite the muted response from their governments. ‘An attempt at recolonization of the region’ – that’s how ...

Israel’s use and abuse of environmentalism should serve as a warning writes Henry Luzzatto. The Israeli campaign in Gaza has wrought devastation on an overwhelming scale, not just on the Palestinian ...