COVID-19 has illuminated the life or death importance hygiene and sanitation around the world. While people have been dying due to lack of hygiene and sanitation since the beginning of…

In November, the coalition government in Germany passed a law to close the gender gap in board level executives. The new law reverses an unsuccessful, voluntary system established in 2016…

On 22 October, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal closed one of the last remaining legal grounds for abortion in the country. By the ruling, the Tribunal, controversially overhauled by the governing…

In light of the economic depression from Covid-19, Indonesia has set out an economic stimulus package that weakens environmental and social safeguards. So what? We are seeing a polarisation between…

Farmers and workers in northern Mexico have ambushed National Guard soldiers and seized a dam to stop water payments to the US. With ever-decreasing rainfall and rising temperatures, the exchange…

The COVID-19 lockdown restrictions impeded the traditional channels of selling and buying fresh fruit, vegetables and fish. To survive, many fishermen and farmers around the world turned from exporting, supplying…