Columns / Currents

The unlikely ‘friendly face’ of the Taliban.

Activists don’t expect climate justice to emerge from negotiations at the UN summit, reports Eve Livingston.

Après macdo; Keep the faith; Nelson’s column.

President Ivan Duque has promised to ‘modernize’ Colombia’s police force.

Germany acknowledges its country’s historic crimes against the Herero and Nama people.

Canada finds the unmarked graves of 215 indigenous children.

Update from Honduras on the murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres.

Activist sex workers in Kyrgyzstan face targeted persecution.

The unlikely winner of Peru’s presidential race.

Report on Russia by Tina Burrett.

A people’s vaccine; Policing the police; ¡Adelante!

Rojava’s pleas to repatriate their fighters have fallen mostly on deaf ears, reports Rahila Gupta.

Carol Concha Bell reports on the grassroots victory for the Left in Chile.

Three years on from the peace deal, the border between the two countries is closed again, despite cordial relations.

Deleting posts and hiding hashtags.

US First Nations people vs colonial boundaries.

Samia Suluhu became the East African country’s first woman president in March 2021.

Report from Australia by Zoe Holman.

Rights at last; Off the gas; Clean up your mess.

India’s RTI – Right to Information – and tea-stall culture.