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Under the midday sun, lugging a heavy cooler in one hand and a mini barbecue in the other, Edimar Santiago walks the length and breadth of Rio de Janeiro's Vermelha beach, performing a ritual tha...

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Anyone who believes the European Union's new Migration and Asylum Pact will increase solidarity between member states, or with people escaping conflict or hunger, does not know the meaning of the...

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Since 29 February 2024, Haiti has been in the grip of a new wave of armed gang violence. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who was travelling abroad at the time, found himself unable to return to the c...

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This text is a joint article from the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO) and the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations ...

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Three people work in silence over a hole in the ground. They are hunched over, on their knees. One of them lays down to make it easier to manoeuvre. In front of them is a collection of bones: arm...

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Since the dawn of Africa's independence from colonial rule, the continent has grappled with an insidious foe: unsustainable public debt. Ensnared within the intricate web of historical legacies, ...

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It's 5pm on a lively Saturday afternoon in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. A central avenue has become the epicentre of what is now popularly known as the feria del contrabando, or contraband ma...

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On 8 March 2024, Azerbaijani trans and feminist activist Alex Shah posted a photo on X (formerly Twitter) of roughly 20 activists gathered in a square being filmed by several reporters and surrou...

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A month after winning the October 2022 general election, Sweden's new right-wing government, allied with the far-right, made a historic U-turn. Within hours of his appointment, the minister for f...

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When in 2018 the government of Kenya, headed by then president Uhuru Kenyatta, launched its Big Four agenda for transformational development, one of the key pillars was the provision of decent ho...

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