In the first year of Taliban rule, the Afghan economy lost US$5 billion, wiping out the previous ten years of growth. One in three businesses shut down, and women bore the brunt of the crisis, with the number of women in employment dropping by 25 per [...]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – a landmark, post-Second World War commitment to the fundamental human rights and freedoms of all people – turns 75 this year. Can the world recommit to this noble promise or will attempts to uphold the sacred principles of the Declaration eventually be [...]

Indigenous peoples are often among the workers most discriminated against and in the most precarious jobs, but they have an ally in the trade union movement to help defend their rights and improve their social and working conditions. Māori, Sami and Mapuche trade union leaders talk to Equal [...]

The al-Sisi regime is without a doubt one of the most repressive in the world. Its severe reprisals against those who criticise it even in the slightest have driven thousands of dissidents into exile. But even halfway across the world, many are unable to escape the long arm of the [...]

The West keeps shifting the blame for these failures on smugglers and dodgy economic migrants but it is time it reckoned with its active role in shaping this murderous landscape.

The Moroccan state is pushing, as if it were the owner, for the sale and privatisation of tribal lands it considers unproductive.

Many fear that France’s planned use of algorithmic video surveillance (AVS) for the 2024 Paris Olympics will infringe on civil liberties and lead to widespread mass surveillance beyond the event.

Global military spending has continued to rise for the eighth year in a row. Seen from a traditional state security perspective – which generally assumes that more weapons means more security – this could be interpreted as good news. But is [...]

“As long as this war goes on, the military will keep coming after us. We are living in danger.”

Since 2022, Poland has been presenting itself as a land of solidarity, having welcomed 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. This solidarity stands in stark contrast with the reality faced by the people crossing the Bialowieza Forest as migrants and refugees from non-European [...]