The plastic pollution crisis has reached unprecedented levels: plastic shopping bags, plastic packaging, plastic water bottles, etc. About 80% of all the plastic ever produced remains in the environment, from…
Weak state authority, easy access to firearms and indifference towards conflict resolution mechanisms has ensured that militant groups rather than the states are the predominant enforcing agents in diverse sections…
Global supply chains featuring commodity ingredients and foods are often opaque, tangled and secretive. Huge multi-national food companies often have well-crafted human rights policies listed on their websites while at…
On Africa Day at the UN in Vienna the Africa Interactive digital project was presented to the world. Governments, museums and private collections have been invited to join the project…
Powerful UK institutions from the monarchy to Ekaterra (formerly Unilever and Brooke Bond) are being confronted over a British colonial-era land grab in Kenya’s Kericho county by the Kipsigi and…
The US invaded Iraq 20 years ago with the aim of overthrowing Saddam Hussein, freeing its people and disarming Iraq to ‘defend the world from grave danger’ including assumed but…
Despite having experienced genocide, Rwanda, through a combination of a forward-thinking President and an engaged female population, has taken the initiative to build itself gradually into the number one country…
The expulsion of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is one of many ways in which the international community is condemning the Islamic Republic of…
Contrary to the enormous effort the Finnish government is putting into joining NATO, the rights of the Sámi people remain on the backburner. Finland’s government and its Prime Minister Sanna…
Ramadan marks the beginning of the UN-brokered truce between the warring parties in Yemen. After seven years of war in Yemen that has directly or indirectly killed hundreds of thousands…