Change must happen before 2030 to avoid disaster. Despite the disappointment around Glasgow, climate science and activism offer hope of progress
Making leather is hard and dirty work, but should children in Bangladesh be banned from it?
Budget ignores need for emission cuts, while government’s consistent incompetence puts Britons at greater risk from looming variants
Ministry of Defence criticised for ‘morally indefensible’ suggestion that former embassy workers should make dangerous border journeys unassisted
The world must take action now to prevent a deep and lasting humanitarian crisis. But what, if anything, can be done?
Nobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans
US failure in Afghanistan was not the result of a plan poorly executed. Rather, it reveals the violent logic at the heart of American power
Rich Western countries like to claim they care about women and girls, but they need to do more – and directly fund those fighting for equality
Hindu nationalists have used the crisis in Afghanistan to stir up islamophobia, but their own fundamentalism is the real danger
The West has declared an end to its war. For Afghans, the war is far from over
Canada has long claimed to be a global defender of human rights, but it has not always been welcoming towards immigrants from East and Southeast Asia
