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Nilanjana Bhowmick takes apart the latest viral hashtag campaign for the religious takeover of secular India.

Progress without people. Nanjala Nyabola on Kenya's embrace of the Chinese development model.

Take a stand; Fossil Free; The people’s luxury.

GI – a rising far-right group that originated in 2003 in France.

Report from Nicaragua by Steve Shaw.

Xylella is behind an unprecedented crisis in southern Apulia.

The mastermind of the 1995 sarin gas attacks in Tokyo is executed.

Africa's $10-billion energy project faces problems.

India's government has asked WhatsApp to act urgently to halt the spread of "irresponsible and explosive messages" after a spate of deadly attacks. 

Mexico has a new president, but can AMLO form a government for the many without taxing the wealthy.

With the Ugandan government announcing it may close down hundreds of illegal orphanages, it is not clear what will happen to the children living in them.

Politicians of both Left and Right continue to march behind the banners of meritocracy and equality of opportunity as if this were all that is needed to achieve a fair society. But rewarding people for their ‘merit’ may be creating a new class system based on arrogant, insensitive winners and angry, desperate losers, writes Peter Adamson.

Some 70,000 Palestinian workers pass through Israeli checkpoints every day. The process, which can take several hours, is disorganized and conditions overcrowded. Those without proper permits often attempt the crossing via gaps in the Israeli wall and mountain routes along the Green Line and run the risk of being arrested or even shot at by Israeli forces. Words & photography by Anne Paq / Active Stills

According to the UN, most surgeries on intersex babies amount to torture. And yet that is the practice in almost every country in the world today. Valentino Vecchietti calls for urgent change.

The brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh in 2012 shone a blistering light on sexual violence as a staggeringly common occurrence in India. Author Sohaila Abdulali explains how, despite the case’s global coverage, the conversation about rape has only just begun.