View from Brazil: Crime, police and politics go hand in hand
The links between crime, police and politics still remain, despite arrests over Marielle Franco's killing, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.
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Spotlight: Jack Ky Tan
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Hall of infamy: Sudan’s warring generals
Reluctant allies to full blown enemies, we profile the warring Sudanese generals ripping their country apart for gold and power.
Taking a stand against FGM
Rosebell Kagumire argues that we must stand firm against the conservative assault on women’s autonomy.
Taking on the biggest weapons manufacturing plant in the US
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Issue 550 May-June 2024
Abortion: Why is your body still a battleground?
Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade in the United States, an international network of anti-rights actors is expanding its sphere of influence in the Global North and South.
At this crucial moment, we look at what’s behind the war on abortion, and hear from activists around the world fighting for feminist futures where abortion is safe, legal and free from fear and stigma for everyone.
Issue highlights:
- Freeing abortion
- Racist roots
- Fertile ground
- Silencing stigma
- Turning the tide
The long read
Singing in dark times: Cultural resistance in Palestine
Palestine’s poets, novelists, musicians and journalists have not only voiced their people’s liberation struggle but also driven it.
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Country Profile: Albania
Conrad Landin unpacks the changing economic and political landscape of the rapidly developing Southeastern European country.
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Anti-abortion campaigners have their sights set on Ethiopia – a progressive outlier in a region marred by restrictions. Who’s behind the emboldened ‘pro-life’ movement and what’s at stake for women’s rights amid a myriad of other challenges?
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In Europe, climate lawsuits take off
More legal action against governments could be on Europe's horizon, writes Danny Chivers.
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India's alternative medicine boom: quackery or decolonial justice?
India’s rightwing have incorporated the promotion of alternative medicine into their nationalist politics, but at what cost, asks Yusra Khan
From the archive
The global coffee trade’s role in the Rwandan Genocide
Twenty-five years after the ‘fastest and most efficient murder campaign of the twentieth century’, Katie McQue examines the role that the global deregulation of the coffee trade had in destabilizing Rwanda.
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