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Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?
The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.
5 polluters making the pandemic pay
As Covid-19 spread across the world, greenhouse-gas emissions plummeted, thanks to a reduction in human activity. But meanwhile, writes Amy Hall, some of the world’s most polluting companies and industries have been using the pandemic to maintain and even ramp up their environmentally ruinous activities.
Green and just
How to finance a Green New Deal that is truly global? Fadhel Kaboub has a proposal that builds in colonial and climate reparations.
Beyond borders
Can we rescue the notion of global health from the jaws of the pandemic? asks Dinyar Godrej.
Action and Information
Covid-19 related research and advocacy groups to support.
Lessons from the pandemic
How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse
A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard Swift. We may never get a better chance for a new normal.
Out of sight, out of mind
Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.
First Ebola, then Covid-19
Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.
Dreaming of Sur
Longing for a return to Turkish Kurdistan’s shattered city centre.
100 years of hope, struggle and betrayal
Key events in recent Kurdish history.
A shot at statehood
Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petro-state of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Unbowed
Turkey wants to undo the revolution in North and East Syria. But the women of Rojava are resisting, writes Dilar Dirik.
Kurds - The Facts
The Kurds – the fourth-biggest ethnic group in the Middle East – are described as ‘the largest nation without a state’. (Where accurate statistics are lacking, we have gone with ‘reasonable’ estimates.)
Who’s who and what do they stand for?
There are scores of different Kurdish political factions, parties and movements, some of which connect with each other, others that are radically and bitterly opposed. Here, in simple form, are the key players.
Action and Information
Links for campaigning and more reading on Kurdistan.
Betrayed again
Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should.
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