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Right-wing Stalinists and hydroponic lettuce: Inside Chile’s pivotal election
7 November 2025 @ 3:13 pm
Extremist candidate José Antonio Kast seems best placed to take advantage of the fragmentation and shift to the right in Chilean politics
In Latin America, people’s movements are democracy’s last defence
7 November 2025 @ 1:09 pm
Despite the region’s progressive values, authoritarianism remains a threat. And it’s people, not politicians, fighting it
Ecuador: When legitimate protest becomes ‘terrorism’
7 November 2025 @ 12:50 pm
Taking from Trump’s playbook and reviving colonial trope, President Noboa labelled Indigenous protesters ‘terrorists’
One month into Gaza ceasefire, what does Palestinians’ future look like?
7 November 2025 @ 9:34 am
Israel is still launching deadly strikes on Gaza, as Netanyahu seeks to cling to power until next year’s elections
Even shots on British nationals won’t stop UK’s border expansion
5 November 2025 @ 10:54 am
It seems that shootings at sea are just par for the course in Starmer’s longstanding strategy to outsource borders
When will Sierra Leone match Liberia’s courage on FGM?
4 November 2025 @ 10:51 am
Too many Sierra Leonean girls still suffer lifelong health problems, complications in childbirth, infection and trauma
Ghana and Trump are bargaining with lives. Ghanaians are pushing back
31 October 2025 @ 2:46 pm
The Ghanaian government is accused of violating human rights by accepting US deportees to gain visas and economic benefits
Kavin came here to work. He ended up a modern slave
31 October 2025 @ 8:27 am
Revealed: UK’s employment visas are causing thousands of legal migrant workers to end up in modern slavery
LGBTQ+ migrants at risk in UK detention centres due to poor staff training
30 October 2025 @ 11:33 am
Charity calls for an end to LGBTQ+ immigration detention, as poor quality staff training is revealed
‘No way out’: the closing spaces for Rohingya livelihoods
30 October 2025 @ 6:01 am
Rohingya refugees in Myanmar and Bangladesh find work where they can, but their rights are increasingly restricted