Columns / Currents

Rome is bucking the school dinner trend, providing its students with wholesome, organic fare.

Cairo’s ‘garbage people’ are improving their standard of living

Brazil has no specific law to deal with internet content.

The struggle to eradicate landmines continues

The Nestlé fair trade Kit Kat dilemma.

Transatlantic student boycott forces clothing company to reopen factory

India's brutal treatment of Kashmiri youths is fuelling conflict

Maasai evicted so foreigners might play

Weather patterns across the West African country have become increasingly hard to predict as a result of climate change.

Palestinian proverb reflects bitter truth for olive farmers

President Obama has carried out more drone attacks than George W Bush.

Victims of ‘India’s Hiroshima’ still seek justice

Coca-Cola's water use in drought ravaged Kala Dera

Poor South Africans fall foul of soccer tournament preparations

Solar-powered development has huge potential if problems can be overcome

Thirty-four years on, the notorious case of the ‘Balibo Five’ is to be reopened.

Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth

Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes

The largest forced relocation since 1996-98

A decade after independence, Timor-Leste’s people are still struggling to get justice