Why are New Zealand’s Maori protesting over colonial-era treaty bill? | Civil Rights News
A fight for Maori rights drew 42,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington on Tuesday. A nine-day-long hikoi, or peaceful march…
Zambia’s Kariba Dam crisis is one of inequality | Climate Crisis
As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern Africans are learning that some…
Why New Zealand’s PM has apologised to 200,000 abused in state care | Civil Rights News
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Tuesday made an unprecedented formal and “unreserved” apology to survivors of abuse in state and church care over…
What is the 4B feminist movement from S Korea that’s taking off in the US? | US Election 2024 News
A feminist movement sweeping South Korea, in which women are saying “No” to any form of intimate relationships with men, is taking hold in the…
Commonwealth summit in Samoa: Why won’t the UK discuss slavery? | Human Rights News
Commonwealth leaders have gathered in Samoa for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week. This is the first time the summit has…
The Floating Doctors: Mobile medicine comes to Panama’s jungles | Health
‘A true blessing’ At the conclusion of the second day of the clinic, the tired volunteers walk down a muddy hill to bathe in the…
‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, African migrants feel abandoned | Israel attacks Lebanon News
Soreti*, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker living in Lebanon, says she feels lucky to be alive. She was not home when Israeli air strikes struck…
What’s behind India’s latest #MeToo movement in Malayalam cinema? | Human Rights News
A spate of allegations of sexual misconduct has rocked the film industry in India’s southern state of Kerala, triggering a flood of police cases and…
How a beauty queen became the face of South Africa-Nigeria tensions | Social Media News
Johannesburg, South Africa – Anita Odunyao Solarin, a 21-year-old Nigerian who has spent her entire life in South Africa, finds it safer not to disclose…
After COVID and Ebola, doctors take on mpox amid conflict in eastern DRC | Health News
Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It’s dawn at the mpox treatment site at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of the city of Goma,…
Officials at UN Security Council push for a permanent seat for Africa | United Nations News
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges reform, says the African continent is underrepresented in a changing world.The United Nations chief has called for the UN Security…
Where are the world’s millionaires and how is wealth divided globally? | Business and Economy News
The world has at least 58 million US dollar millionaires, accounting for 1.5 percent of the global adult population, according to the 2024 UBS Global…
The Battle for the Soul of Angkor Wat | Arts and Culture
People & Power investigates the mass evictions of thousands of residents at the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site.Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, or “City of Temples”, is…
Desperate Zimbabweans cross Zambia border for cheaper healthcare, medicines | Health
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe – At 5pm at the Victoria Falls border post, Margaret Tshuma – who has a 24-hour day pass to be in Zambia…
Conviction: Free after 25 years of unjust imprisonment | Human Rights
After a quarter-century behind bars, Brandon Jackson is fighting back against Louisiana’s last Jim Crow law. In 1997, Brandon Jackson was convicted for a crime…
As big pharma exits Nigeria, asthma patients face spiralling costs | Health
Ibadan, Nigeria — When Gloria Mofifoluwa’s friend informed her in March that the price of inhalers had risen in Nigeria, she did not think much…
Cape Town’s poor ‘neglected’ in South Africa’s only opposition-run province | Elections News
Cape Town, South Africa – In the leafy, picturesque southern suburbs of Cape Town, Dee Lackay, 38, is making a new start after leaving Johannesburg…
Ivorian cocoa farmers ‘barely survive’ while chocolate company profits soar | Agriculture
Aboude, Ivory Coast – It’s 11am in Aboude, a village in southern Ivory Coast, and Magne Akoua has already been working on his cacao farm…
New Campaign from The Trial for #ClinicalEquality – “Worth Less” –Spotlights the Cost of Clinical Inequality
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India’s income inequality widens, should wealth be redistributed? | Business and Economy
Rising income inequality is a hot topic dominating the national elections. India is the fastest-growing major economy in the world. But, the benefits of India’s…