Technology permeates our everyday lives. It creates new job opportunities but also new traps that perpetuate the precarious conditions of the most vulnerable workers.Read the full article
Seven decades of exploitation by the world’s leading space agencies have left the Earth’s orbit cluttered with debris, which has been causing problems for the planet. These problems have been exacerbated by the private sector’s entry into the space race over the last five [...]Read the full article
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 [...]Read the full article
Vicente Salas:“Many of the proposed initiatives for change and groundbreaking reform start from a recognition of the limitations of nation states to act in cooperation. Instead, these reforms seek to turn companies/legal entities into the implementing arms of public objectives and [...]Read the full article
Two years ago figures in the reparations movement helped set up a task force to come up with a series of recommendations to compensate Californians who are descendants of enslaved Africans and African Americans and right the wrongs caused by [...]Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:A human rights-based approach to climate action is imperative to ensure a just transition for workers and communities. In order to effectively mobilise resources to enable a transition to low-carbon climate resilient societies, just transition needs to be a recognised as a human [...]Read the full article
Recent moves by Israel’s right-wing government to weaken the power of the judiciary and further erode human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is pushing the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors to seek EU citizenship and move back to the countries where their grandparents were once [...]Read the full article
Gabon’s timber industry, which employs nearly 7 per cent of the country’s working population, is struggling to adapt to often burdensome environmental policies adopted by the international community.Read the full article
Not registered with the nationality committees set up to take a census of Kuwait’s inhabitants when the country gained independence in 1961, those known in Arabic as the ‘Bidoon’ are now undocumented in their own country.Read the full article
Blandine Lavignon:Georgia was rocked in early March by historic demonstrations in opposition to a draft law that would label media and NGOs receiving foreign funding as ‘foreign agents’. Civil society actors explain what is at stake.Read the full article