Anglo American is keen to present itself as a ‘future-smart’ and ‘sustainable’ miner. It is confident enough of Quellaveco’s ...

Trump’s rhetoric of Christian persecution did not fall from the sky. Rather, it has emerged from the vacuum created by ...

Ranking 91st out of 170, Indonesia ranks high on the Gini index of inequality at 34.9 (Malaysia 40.7, UK, 32.4), reflecting a ...

I’m here to meet Aqsa Arif, whose show at Edinburgh Printmakers runs until 2 November. Born in Pakistan in the 1990s, she ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

The Gaza-born guest editor of our latest issue describes the process of creating the magazine and the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face of genocide. You can also listen to The World ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...

Adverts gleam with promises of transformation and transcendence – via material objects. Jean Kilbourne decodes this gigantic propaganda effort. A recent ad for Thule car-rack systems features a child ...

It was a movement that reverberated on campuses from Cape Town to Oxford. Musawenkosi Cabe speaks to activists who were part of the high-profile push to decolonize universities and challenge white ...

Cerro Rico is famed for the harsh conditions faced by its miners. But, as James Dryburgh discovers, it is not only men who are ‘rock-breakers’ in Bolivia’s Potosí region. Women too, some as old as 81, ...

What does it mean to be happy in a modern consumer society? John F Schumaker argues that our entire socio-economic system is designed to spew out citizens eternally in search of satisfaction. *‘The ...