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Why do churches still have £18 million invested in fossil fuels?

Why do churches still have £18 million invested in fossil fuels?

Despite pledging to divest from fossil fuels in 2018, the Church of England regional dioceses continue to profit from companies including Shell, BP and Total. Frances Rankin of DeSmog investigates.

Latest issue: July-August 2020

The Kurds: Betrayed again

Rajasthan, India On the way to Pushkar  Women in the countryside

The deadly neglect of India’s rural communities must end, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Where we would have been: Fridays for Future activists leave placards outside the Reichstag in Berlin,  ​Germany, as an alternative climate protest. Kay Nietfeld/DPA/Alamy Live News

Aruna Chandrasekhar on how climate activism has kept going in a time of isolation.

Deputy Minister Luwellyn Landers attends inauguration of Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina,  ​19 January 2019 by GovernmentZA is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

Nanjala Nyabola grapples with the challenge of misinformation and disinformation.

Smuggling is necessary but dangerous work for these Kurdish boys. Many are killed every year by Iranian border patrols. Rahman Hassani/Alamy

Iran’s Kurds are suffering in silence. But for how much longer?

Turkish airstrikes in Northern Iraq are nothing new, but the recent co-ordinated air and ground assault is unprecedented, writes John Lubbuck.

The face of Abdullah Öcalan frequently appears on banners at pro-Kurdish demonstrations around the world,  ​like this one in Berlin. Jan Scheunert/Zuma/Alamy

How did a once hardcore Marxist-Leninist and nationalist guerrilla leader come to develop a politics of participatory democracy, feminism and ecology? Vanessa Baird traces Abdullah Öcalan’s journey.

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