Indigenous rights activists after the ‘Unsettle Canada Day 150 Picnic’ in Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Mark Blinch / Reuters

No celebration of colonization

That is the demand of many First Nations people during Canada’s year-long jamboree to mark its 150th anniversary of confederation. Sian Griffiths reports.

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The spirit of creative resistence is strong in the Rio favela of Maré. But Brazil is suffering a ‘genocide’ of black youth.Photo: Vanessa Baird

‘We have a lot to teach the city’

What does ‘the state’ mean to you if you are poor or black or both? Vanessa Baird reports on life down-and-out in post-coup São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

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Marcela's Recipe of the month

Marcela’s recipe: How to make a soft coup

This dish may seem a bit challenging at first glance, but is guaranteed to impress your guests!

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Brazil already suffers a high rate of violence towards women. This activist is taking part in a campaign in Rio.Photo: Sergio Moraes  / Reuters

What's sex got to do with it?

The rights of women and minorities are receding fast since the coup.

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Indigenous people, set to be robbed of their land rights, took their protest to Brasilia – to be rebuffed by armed forces.Photo: Gregg Newton / Reuters

Grand land theft

Vanessa Baird writes on how agribusiness has mounted a coup against rural Brazilians.

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What is Brazil’s ‘Operation Car Wash’?

Is Operation Car Wash the world’s biggest corruption scandal? By Vanessa Baird

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Brazil's soft coup hardens

Vanessa Baird sets out to see how dictatorship is being rebranded in Latin America’s most populous nation.

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‘This is cultural genocide’

‘This is cultural genocide’

Indigenous communities in Colombia refuse to occupy an empty space in history, and believe their very cultural survival is at stake, reports Hazel Healy.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
‘Your example lights the way for a new dawn,’ reads this monument in La Higuera.Photo: © Julio Etchart – 2017

On the trail of Che

A wave of nostalgia is sweeping Latin America as the 50th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara approaches. Julio Etchart follows the ‘Che route’ to the remote spot where the revolutionary icon was executed.

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Police come up behind a protester opposed to the Tintaya Copper mine in 2012. Their violence later resulted in three deaths.Photo: Miguel Gutierrez

When the police are paid by the mine

Stephanie Boyd reports on a growing trend of private corporations hiring public law enforcers to protect their interests.

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Illustration: Belle Mellor

Deliver us from Venus and Mars

Newspapers love to dish up stories of inherent differences between the sexes because we lap them up. Gavin Evans reflects on why we are still so susceptible.

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Education against the odds. Yemeni children attend classs in a school building damaged by a Saudi-led air strike in Taez.Photo: Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images

Education otherwise

The world is full of extraordinary schools. We feature three inspirational stories about courageous teachers, second-chance education and progressive pedagogy in Yemen, South Sudan and Colombia.

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Mistaking high test scores in China as a measure of quality, the West has adopted an exam-orientated system.Image: Song Dynasty print under a CC Licence

Fatal attraction

Why is the West racing to copy Asia’s education system as fast as the East scrambles to reform it? Yong Zhao takes to task an unhealthy and deluded romanticization of education.

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Education by e-book? A teacher and her class at low-cost private school  Bridge in Mpigi, Uganda.Photo: Jon Rosenthal/Alamy

Between a shark and the deep sea

Can a US chain of profit-making schools really help the poor? Patience Akumu reports on the impact of Bridge academies in Uganda.

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Illustration: Marc Nipp

Will Google take over the classroom?

Silicon Valley types say that with enough data, they can ‘fix’ education. Where are the teachers in this grand plan? asks Tamasin Cave.

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 Education for all – The facts

Education for all – The facts

A snapshot of progress, setbacks and future prospects

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Indigenous children are disproportionately left behind.Photo: Hugh Stitton / Corbis / Getty Images

Leave no-one behind?

An update on progress towards the dream of universal education

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A child practises writing the days of the week on the wall of her house in Meme, Cameroon. Photo: Chris de Bode / Panos

Back to the drawing board

The Right has captured education all over the world. Hazel Healy makes the case for how to do things differently.

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Le Ciel and L’Amour can rest easy at last. Before they came to Foyer Jean Paul II, a recovery centre for girls who have undergone trafficking or forced marriage in Kara, Togo, they had to sleep rough, at risk of assault, robbery and sexual abuse.Photo: Ana Palacios

To reach a place of safety

Photographer Ana Palacios documents the work to rescue and rehabilitate trafficked and abandoned children in Togo and Benin.

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NI 504 - The Equality Effect - July, 2017
When water supplies run dry in his village, Shiva Korade attempts to make a living selling sugarcane juice in nearby Pune.Photo: Fiona Broom

Lessons from the thirst economy

Conflicts over water are on the rise in India, but climate change is not the only culprit. Fiona Broom reports on a powerful water mafia that is sucking India dry.

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Bad Education September, 2017
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The Equality Effect July, 2017
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