Without economic prospects, trafficking victims in India have little choice but to be exploited again

Governments need to take urgent action on funding and protection for LBQ+ movements across the world, says NGO

With the World Cup over, the migrant workers who made it possible are asking: where next?

Many of the migrants who built World Cup infrastructure in Qatar are still waiting for their last pay cheques

Migrant workers took loans to work on the World Cup. For many, their creditors are waiting when they return

Qatar’s migrant workers died, but their families struggle on

Abortion rights have been extended to unmarried women, but how will this affect women’s lives in reality?

Records obtained by openDemocracy show the energy giant bought ‘junk’ carbon credits from a chemical factory

Religious intolerance and ultra-nationalism bring India and Pakistan together on their 75th birthday

Sex workers in Hyderabad rise up against their forced detention following court’s ruling

Could the disgraced Rajapaksas return to power, like the Marcos family has in the Philippines?

Newsflash: we already do. The question is, how can we do it in a way that works for everybody?

Small farmers are the world’s primary suppliers of food. It’s imperative we listen to them, not the big corporates

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Nine months on from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, teenage girls remain deprived of their right to education

Gujjar and Bakarwal women in India experience period poverty – as do 500 million girls and women globallyThis story...

How long can billionaires continue to amass wealth while the world's poorest struggle to buy food?

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On the biggest issues that will threaten people around the world in the coming years, NATO is well-night irrelevant

Ghazipur, a vast landfill in the Indian capital, has been over capacity for 20 years. Every time it catches fire, it...

Once hailed as South Asia’s ‘success story’, the island nation has faced months of escalating violent unrest

They faced poverty, corruption, discrimination and threats. But these women in Rajasthan kept organising