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Students in Britain protest proposed increases to university tuition fees, 9 December 2010. Photo: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Stock Photo

Arrested Development

Millennials have been condemned to a life of permanent adolescence. Despite the obsession with all things shiny and new, Yohann Koshy argues that young people are using old-fashioned ideas to chart a way forward.

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Indigenous and other activists gather in front of the Honduran embassy in London in response to the murder of anti-dam campaigner Berta Cáceres in 2016. Photo: Peter Marshall / Alamy Stock Photo

Defame, criminalize, murder

Grassroots environmentalists are being violently targeted in Latin America. Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman believe there is something we can do about it.

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Dissent is viewed as illegitimate. Rule of law matters less than edicts purported to reflect popular opinion. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto

You will agree: escalating repression

Mandeep Tiwana sorts through the many cloaks of authoritarianism donned by the political class as repression becomes the rule rather than the exception.

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Grouper are protected for now. But at what cost? Photo: Matthew Oldfield

Who is Palau’s marine sanctuary really for?

Is Palau's marine reserve as good as it sounds – or a route to luxury tourism?

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Maria Soccorro dela Cruz (pictured with her grandson), was sexually and verbally abused while a domestic worker in Lebanon and Syria to support her family in Manila. Photo: Robin Hammond / Panos

Sponsored abuse

A lack of legal protection combined with toxic prejudice leaves migrant workers in Lebanon between a rock and a hard place. But the struggle for rights is under way and, as Fiona Broom reports, it’s coming from the ground up.

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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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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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The sleepy fishing village of Koh Sralao, situated on a small island in a mangrove-lined estuary, is in the frontline of the resistance against rampant sand-dredging. Photo: Rod Harbinson / RodHarbinson.com

Shifting sands

Sand-dredging is big business, especially in Asia, where demand has sky-rocketed thanks to the booming construction industry. Rod Harbinson reports from Cambodia on an extractive industry that is mired in corruption and scandal, and meets some of those on the frontline of the fight against it.

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 Photo: Iris Gonzales

Homeless voices from around the world

Civil war, mental illness, poverty, gang violence: housing insecurity has many roots.

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Letters

Praise, blame and all points in between? Your feedback published in the April 2017 magazine.

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Fond hopes that die: Angelo Lafuente’s mother visits his grave. His body, riddled with bullets and covered in torture marks, was found by a filthy river that feeds into the Manila bay. She blames the police for his death. Photo: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Mr Tough

The violence of the Duterte regime in the Philippines and the devotion of his fans, as witnessed by Iris C Gonzales.

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 Fernando Del Berro

The Unreported Year 2016

Stories and photos you may have missed in the last 12 months. Compiled by Jo Lateu.

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Relatives mourn a person killed by Manila police for alleged drug involvement. Photo: Jes Aznar

Duterte's bloody war continues apace

Iris Gonzales reflects on the Philippine president's controversial war on drugs.

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Preparing for conflict: guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell patrolling in the South China Sea earlier this year. Photo: US Navy

The coming war on China

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.

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Arrested Development

Millennials have been condemned to a life of permanent adolescence. Despite the obsession with all things shiny and new, Yohann Koshy argues that young people are using old-fashioned ideas to chart a way forward.

Yohann Koshy January, 2018 509 Preview
Defame, criminalize, murder

Grassroots environmentalists are being violently targeted in Latin America. Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman believe there is something we can do about it.

Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman December, 2017 508 Read
You will agree: escalating repression

Mandeep Tiwana sorts through the many cloaks of authoritarianism donned by the political class as repression becomes the rule rather than the exception.

Mandeep Tiwana December, 2017 508 Read
Who is Palau’s marine sanctuary really for?

Is Palau's marine reserve as good as it sounds – or a route to luxury tourism?

Peter Howson November, 2017 507 Preview
Sponsored abuse

A lack of legal protection combined with toxic prejudice leaves migrant workers in Lebanon between a rock and a hard place. But the struggle for rights is under way and, as Fiona Broom reports, it’s coming from the ground up.

Fiona Broom November, 2017 507 Read
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.

September, 2017 505 Read
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.

Hazel Healy September, 2017 505 Read
Copy-cat war on drugs

Report from Indonesia

Nithin Coca July, 2017 504 Preview
Shifting sands

Sand-dredging is big business, especially in Asia, where demand has sky-rocketed thanks to the booming construction industry. Rod Harbinson reports from Cambodia on an extractive industry that is mired in corruption and scandal, and meets some of those on the frontline of the fight against it.

Rod Harbinson June, 2017 503 Read
Homeless voices from around the world

Civil war, mental illness, poverty, gang violence: housing insecurity has many roots.

Iris Cecilia Gonzales, Amy Hall, Nithin Coca, Tamara Pearson June, 2017 503 Read
Letters

Praise, blame and all points in between? Your feedback published in the April 2017 magazine.

April, 2017 501 Read
Mr Tough

The violence of the Duterte regime in the Philippines and the devotion of his fans, as witnessed by Iris C Gonzales.

Iris Cecilia Gonzales April, 2017 501 Preview
The Unreported Year 2016

Stories and photos you may have missed in the last 12 months. Compiled by Jo Lateu.

Jo Lateu January, 2017 499 Read
Duterte's bloody war continues apace

Iris Gonzales reflects on the Philippine president's controversial war on drugs.

Iris Cecilia Gonzales January, 2017 499 Read
The coming war on China

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.

John Pilger December, 2016 498 Read