People across the world are standing up to the power of the arms trade. Amy Hall explores its threat to life and democracy.

The global trend towards liberalizing abortion is being overshadowed by a newly emboldened anti-rights movement that wants to erode bodily autonomy. Bethany Rielly learns how feminist movements are organizing to put abortion back in the hands of the people – and keep it there.

Can South Africa ever fully shake off the shackles of apartheid? Conrad Landin asks whether the country’s historic genocide case against Israel could lead to a reckoning at home.

How can we prevent an unjust transition? As the clean economy gets into gear, Nick Dowson asks whether a market-focused, subsidies-led approach will just mean more of the same.

Confronting the impact of empire is not about getting stuck in the past, writes Amy Hall. It’s vital to how we build a better future.

We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case for collective action to secure a just future.

After concerted campaigning, the Chilean government has turned down a proposal for two open-pit copper and iron mines – that would have sat right next to the nature reserve sheltering the endangered Humboldt penguin. Lydia Noon reports.

Sally Hayden writes about the Lukodi massacre museum.

Doctors and patients are fighting back against new rules to restrict migrants’ access to the NHS, writes Simon Childs.

Green Border; Here.

Safety Through Solidarity; We Need To Talk About Climate; The Newsmongers; World Without End.

Alva; Chain of Light.

Stephanie Boyd reports from a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon, where ways of life are changing with modern times – but ancient traditions live on.

The Indian human rights defender who stopped a mining giant in its tracks speaks with Veronique Mistiaen.

The president of the Philippines he may be, but his reputation is as a Dirty Harry of vigilante politics.

Culture; inequality; corruption; health; migration.

The photos, facts, and politics of Uruguay.

Free-market democracy in action, by Marc Roberts.