This month’s film reviews.
Military fatigues and floral scarves
Rahila Gupta meets the women fighters who are helping fight ISIS while also leading a radical democratic revolution.
The Disrupted
Silicon Valley’s latest gamble on technological disruption will produce losers in their millions, Jim Thomas writes.
Pt 2/3: A British-Syrian’s experience of a refugee’s journey
The refugee crisis has had a profound impact on identity, writes Danny Ryan Youssef.
Victory for Blacklisted Workers – and NI authors!
In a landmark moment, leading construction firms apologized to workers for having blacklisted them, Chris Brazier reports.
The Mekong River is not for sale!
The landscape – and the local peoples’ livelihood – have irrevocably changed, Gary Wocker reports in this photo essay.
Top stories
Country profile: Nigeria
Samuel Malik considers life in the self-styled ‘giant of Africa’.
- Samuel Malik
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- 19 May 2016
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Military fatigues and floral scarves
Rahila Gupta meets women fighters in Rojava who are leading the charge towards a radical democracy.
- Rahila Gupta
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- 19 May 2016
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The Disrupted
Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.
- Jim Thomas
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- 18 May 2016
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The language of peacekeeping
The importance of communication should not be underestimated, writes Ruby Diamonde.
- Ruby Diamonde
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- 17 May 2016
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The energy fix
What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.
- Ruth Nyambura
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- 16 May 2016
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Switched on
Technology, whether low or high, needs to be appropriate and within reach to make a difference.
- Dinyar Godrej
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- 13 May 2016
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Blogs
Pt 2/3: A British-Syrian’s experience of a refugee's journey
The refugee crisis has had a profound impact on identity, writes Danny Ryan Youssef in part two of this blog series.
- Danny Ryan Youssef
- 18 May 2016
- 1
What is Antofagasta hiding from its investors?
Do the mining company’s shareholders know about the risks to their investments? Steffen Böhm and Rajiv Maher ask.
- Steffen Böhm and Rajiv Maher
- 17 May 2016
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Victory for Blacklisted Workers – and NI authors!
In a landmark moment, a group of leading construction firms apologized to workers for having blacklisted them, Chris Brazier reports.
- Chris Brazier
- 13 May 2016
- 0
Kerala – a conflict of cultures?
Is hype over the southern Indian paradise simply hot air? Mari Marcel Thekaekara asks.
- Mari Marcel Thekaekara
- 13 May 2016
- 4
Pt 1/3: A British-Syrian’s experience of a refugee's journey
The reality of civil war and migration rips identity apart while exposing new hope in humanity, writes Danny Ryan Youssef.
- Danny Ryan Youssef
- 11 May 2016
- 3
A red line in Merthyr’s dirty opencast coal mine
In Merthyr, the struggle against disastrous extraction projects continues, writes Russell Warfield.
- Russell Warfield
- 9 May 2016
- 1
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