Residents of the region of Luhansk, Ukraine are still recovering from unprecedented forest fires that shook the region last year
In unprecedented protests, Cubans demonstrated against their government and its mishandling of the pandemic, only to be met with repression
Far from reversing the disastrous 2012 reforms, this new bill makes it even easier to axe and privatise services – that’s the real COVID ‘recovery plan’
The £4bn cut to overseas development will ‘cost lives’ and break a promise to the world’s poorest people, critics say
Despite legal reforms, the country’s fragmentation and persistent attitudes about women and girls are a barrier to gender equality
Black women in the US have the highest risk of dying in childbirth. Dangerous and unnecessary caesareans have a lot to do with this. What’s going on?
New emails obtained by openDemocracy reveal the UK’s determination to lobby for the troubled Amulsar mine
Facing unemployment and a loss of income, a growing number of women are setting up online trading businesses
Medics will be encouraged to offer inductions to all pregnant women of colour, if NICE’s draft proposals go ahead
The 7 July assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, has thrown the country into disarray. Here’s what you need to know
On opposite sides of the Atlantic, Christian communities are reacting very differently to the messages of right-wing populists
