Features

Seven years after the end of the civil war, Jo Eckersley and Ashwin Hemmathagama assess Sri Lanka’s progress.

The factory collapse in 2013 caused an international outcry – but have labour conditions improved? Thulsi Narayanasamy reports from Bangladesh.

Workers’ struggles and successes from around the globe, from this month's New Internationalist magazine.

Labour rights in post-socialist countries such as Russia, China and Vietnam are being fought for from outside, not within, official trade unions. Tim Pringle reports.

Unions can play a vital role in the battle for climate justice, says Anabella Rosenberg, Policy Officer for Health and Environment at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Here she talks about growing awareness in the global labour movement and the challenges ahead.

From the changing workplace to zero-hours contracts, precarious working and outsourcing: workers are open to extreme exploitation. Here are the facts.

Trade unions aren’t even on the radar of most of London’s poorly treated hospitality workers. But a union could help them find their voice, as Afrika explains.

Jo Lateu considers the state of the unions, and argues that a revival has already begun.

Roxana Olivera talks to Goldman Environment Prize winner Máxima Acuña.

Nithin Coca reports on Malaysia’s slide towards authoritarianism.

The dictator’s victims are still waiting to see their torturers on trial – and time is running out. By Mira Galanova.

You can take action at a practical and technological level – and a political one.

Why bother with aid agencies? To ‘do good’ all you need is a phone and Google Maps. Amy Hall takes a closer look at the rising trend in ‘direct giving’.

Few can resist the tech titans. Prabir Purkayastha tells the story of Indians who went into battle against Facebook, for freedom – and won.

Research psychologist Robert Epstein on how the new technologies invisibly shape public opinion – and what we must do about it.

Everybody wants your private data. Bruce Schneier on how surveillance has become the business model of the internet.

This month's fact spread presents details about the internet and the corporate giants who monopolize it.

Does it matter that Google, Facebook and Amazon are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for all of us.

How new trade deals – and Investor-State Dispute Settlements in particular – are giving more power to companies to sue countries for lost profits.

Roxana Olivera meets indigenous women in Peru who are still waiting for justice, two decades after being forcibly sterilized.