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Dockers unite; Lamu Breathes; Let there be light; and Who knew?

Report from northern Brazil by Matthew Ponsford.

Report from Goa, India by Mahima Jain.

Report from Honduras by Rahila Gupta.

Report from the United States by Husna Rizvi.

Report from Italy by Alessio Perrone.

Libyan renegade warlord.

Report from the Democratic Republic of Congo by Emmanuel Freudenthal.

Blake Morrison grew up in Yorkshire – and made his escape from his traditional conservative background via literature. As he discovered writers from other cultures, borders between cultures and nations seemed to fall away, leaving him as a citizen of the world. But since the Brexit referendum he has often felt like a stranger in his own country.

Will shaming employers on social media finally bring justice for Lebanon’s domestic workers? Roshan De Stone and David Suber report from Beirut.

Jeremy Seabrook surveys a political landscape riven with virulent nostalgias which obscure an essential conflict – how to reconcile the needs of the planet with the necessities of economics?

Personal efforts are definitely worthwhile, but the scale of the problem requires action at a national and international political level, too.

Human rights at sea by Vanessa Baird.

This area is a simmering cauldron for conflict between China and its neighbours – and the US. Mark J Valencia makes sense of the situation.

For Epeli Hau’ofa, by Karlo Mila.