Widespread flooding has driven tens of thousands of families from their homes in Paraguay. In Asunción, this emergency reveals extreme negligence from the state towards those who are poorest and most affected by the rising waters. Español.
The Revolutionary Movement of Organized Crime (MORECO) is a Costa Rican criminal group involved in drug trafficking. Their tactics, reach and admiration for Mexico’s Zetas is causing concern. Español.
It's time for advocates of ‘Universal Basic Services’ to stop juxtaposing the idea of more and better public services with giving people basic income security.
Soundbites from Tory leadership hopefuls won’t save the NHS from the corporates and their trade lobbyists. Only honesty and clarity about what’s already on the table, how it got there, and how we can take it back, will do that.
A profit-led development model is at the root of Britain's dysfunctional housing market. It’s time for a new approach that puts the public interest first.
В Казахстане произошел всплеск гражданской активности, заставивший заметно поволноваться власти. Инициаторами стали молодые художники, которые, наконец, вышли из интернета на улицы.
The Kazakh state is increasingly bringing the work of independent journalists under control. A new media law places further restrictions on journalistic freedom.
Soviet factory towns have turned out to be unworkable under a globalised market economy - but these cities continue to live. I traveled to Georgia's metal town of Rustavi to find out more.
Let’s set the record straight: lesbians have always rebelled against the gender binary and sexual repression. We have always been traitors to gender essentialism.
