As the Czech government seeks to balance EU climate targets with fears over energy insecurity following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, deep mining continues in the country’s north – though for how long is another matter. In 2015, activists formed Limity Jsme My (‘We Are the Limits’) to protest

In the years since Syria’s civil war began in 2011, the country has been slowly drifting away from the mainstream media spotlight. But in the early hours of Sunday morning, Turkish-backed opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad as they surged into the

More than 20 years since Amy Case King served her last prison sentence for drug-related charges in the US, the conviction still affects her.  ‘Criminalization is more harmful in the long-term because it doesn’t address the underlying drug use,’ she says. ‘The impact lingers long after the completed sentence.

After the first rainfall of autumn, Salah Abu Ali announced the harvest of one of the world’s oldest olive trees in al-Walaja, a Palestinian farming village between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He spread red mats around the enormous gnarled trunk, fetched wooden ladders to reach the high branches and gathered

In the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, a powerful movement is taking shape. Indigenous Yanomami women, once sidelined in their own communities, are now at the forefront of a battle to save their ancestral lands from the ravages of illegal gold mining. Earlier this year, under the vibrant lights

More than one trillion dollars in ‘superprofits’ from fossil fuel companies should be used to fund climate change mitigation efforts in the majority world, energy experts say. According to research published in Climate Policy this month, 93 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies raked in a whopping $1,

Argentinian president Javier Milei was summoned to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) last week to answer for his administration's regressive social policies since his election last year. Lawyers, human rights activists, unions and NGOs filed complaints against the self-described 'anarcho-capitalist' to the Commission, which

Residents of Estonia's third-largest city, Narva, are tired of being called ‘the second Crimea’. The national government has looked at the border city’s nearly exclusively Russian-speaking population through a geopolitical lens since Estonia regained independence in 1991. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, most of Europe

Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley are facing an increasingly dire situation. Already at the back of the line for aid, these communities are now confronting the threat of a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah. 'The situation is very bad here, we have nothing', says one

‘The never-ending queues for fuel, the waste and scarcity of food, the rising prices — the bloqueos are affecting the lives of all Bolivians,’ says Carla Torres, a café worker from the capital city of La Paz. Torres' words reflect the increasingly dire situation across the Andean country marred by

A Filipino network representing urban poor families in the city of Cebu is celebrating several recent victories including securing housing for over 160 families, successfully negotiating to improve street lighting and sanitation, and settling a case that holds the city accountable to relocating families it recently evicted. After nearly three

Croatian border police are burning migrants’ personal belongings before illegally pushing them back into Bosnia. These brutal, underhand tactics have been adopted to deter migrants from attempting to enter the country and the European Union – and to remove their ability to try again. According to a new report from the

‘The kind of conservation being done in the name of Project Tiger is wrong – it is not serving the people, the forest, nor the wildlife,’ Rajan tells me over the phone from Odisha in eastern India. Rajan is a non-Indigenous member of the Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA), a

Aurora Gomez remembers when her family lost their rural land in central Spain to an airport back in 2008. The Ciudad Real government made lofty promises of economic benefits for communities long beset by high unemployment, only for the airport to be sold in a bankruptcy auction in 2015.   Today,

Chances are, if you’ve bought tomatoes from a British or European supermarket recently, they will be labelled as originating from Morocco. But what the label doesn't say is that they could have actually come from Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony that Morocco has occupied since 1973.

As Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, a crisis of homelessness is emerging across the country. New research from UK-based charity Depaul International shows a sharp rise in homelessness in Ukraine, with 22 per cent of those sleeping rough becoming homeless as a direct consequence