“In other words… Slavery has not been completely abolished” – Dr Angela Davis, “Slavery and the Prison Industrial Complex.” Davis, who grew up in the segregated southern city of Birmingham, Alabama, home of the 1963 terrorist bombings against the black...
Type #teenmodel on Instagram’s search facility and you may find yourself suddenly aware of who is overlooking your screen. The hashtag count currently stands at 1.1 million images and whilst Instagram requires a user to be 13 years of age...
Ritual child sacrifice is a growing problem in Uganda, with many children killed, and hundreds more missing yearly. “Child ritual murder is one of the most extreme manifestations of violence against children in Uganda. This gruesome practice involves mutilation and...
E exactly 25 years since the movement began, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has changed profoundly. In Chiapas the five great caracoles (Zapatista self-ruled areas) are now acknowledged self-governing districts, though poorly tolerated. And what was founded as a no-global movement has ended up being globalised, becoming media-friendly and touristic.
This mid-October Albert Nabonibo, 35, was sacked from a beverage firm based in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, where he held a job as an accountant after publicly declaring he was gay on a Christian YouTube channel, a month earlier. Further compounding...
Uganda has announced its plans to introduce the death penalty for homosexuality, stating that the new legislation would address the increase in “unnatural sex” in the country. Colloquially referred to as the “Kill the Gays” bill, the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act...
In a shocking turn of events in the Balochistan saga, The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has finally confirmed the human rights abuses in the region – something that Pakistan has refuted up until now. In the recent fact-finding...
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fired remarks aimed towards China and their detainment of the Uighur Muslims in concentration camps. Pompeo spoke out at a Vatican conference organised by the US embassy on religious freedom. He blasted the...
A chorus of children’s voices fills the air in the little orphanage in Madagascar. Twins, in particular, playfully run around the dusty grounds with beaming smiles – oblivious to the horrific fate that could have awaited them. In some rural...
It was August 2018 when 28-year-old *Erik found himself traipsing across Asia after finishing a particularly difficult Masters degree. A lifetime away from his home in Stockholm, the young Swede could never have predicted that a spur-of-the-moment trip to East...
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