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Alondra Carrillo, a psychologist by training and member of the Coordinadora Feminista 8M (8 March Feminist Coordinator), was part of the Constitutional Convention of Chile elected at the ballot b...

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Fuelled by the impact of the war in Ukraine and the growing tensions in the Indo-Pacific (currently the centre of gravity of the international agenda, being the region where the strategic competi...

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Europe is ageing. But it is not ageing equally. At least one in five of the 90 million Europeans over 65 (projected to rise to 130 million by 2050) live in a rural area where they have fewer publ...

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For the last two years, Jakina Lameki, who lives in the town of Bangula in Malawi's southernmost district of Nsanje, has experienced the catastrophic impact that climate change is having on her c...

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In 2021, we argued that the core elements of any conceptualisation of a just transition is already well-rooted in international human rights law. We contended that a just transition should not be...

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On 17 April 2023, just before sunset in al-Ibaidiya, a Sudanese mining town on the banks of the River Nile about 400 kilometres north of Khartoum, four soldiers stormed the home of Omar Sheriff a...

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In April 2020, Vunalungu Pépé, a 70-year-old government official, suffered a stroke and found himself partially paralysed on the right side of his body. He was quickly taken to the Kyeshero Urb...

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In 2021, the hard-hitting images of refugees at the Belarus-Poland border were seen around the world. But no sooner did they appear than they disappeared from the media. This was before Russia's ...

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While significant progress has been made in recent years towards the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) people, the political resurgence of the far- and e...

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Sand is one of our lesser-known development resources. It is not only used to build our homes, schools, hospitals, roads and cars, but also to produce glass, agricultural fertilisers, computer...

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In spite of the 17,000 kilometres separating Brazil and Indonesia, both countries have much in common, such as having some of the world's largest remaining tropical forests. They also share one p...

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On 14 May, the people of Turkey will elect their president and members of parliament. A hundred years after the foundation of a secular state under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, these election...

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In one of the most visible and disturbing signs of Colombia's ongoing armed conflict, Indigenous children can be seen scattered throughout the cold streets of Bogotá, the country's capital. Dres...

https://www.equaltimes.org/bogota-s-indigenous-street

Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn't need the ongoing economic crisis to feel overwhelmed by the cost of living in Ghana's capital city...

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It took over 3,000 days for Pooja Patil to earn a Taekwondo black belt and just 240 days for her to drop out of the sport. “It was the most painful moment of my life,” she says. After earni...

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Across all sectors of the global economy automated and algorithmic management systems (AMS) of various kinds are being deployed by employers to, supposedly, increase productivity and efficiency. ...

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In 2019, Paul Chouta was held for two years at the Kondengui Central Prison in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde, a maximum-security prison notorious for overcrowding and poor sanitary condition...

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