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Indian Gays Prepare to Fight Again

By Ranjita Biswas
Human rights have taken a step back in India, activists say after the Supreme Court overturned a ruling of the High Court that had earlier lifted the ban on gay sex.

Climate Makes Refugees Out of Young Ghanaians

By Albert Oppong-Ansah
It was 20-year-old Fizer Boa who first migrated south to Ghana’s capital, Accra, to work in the local Abobloshie market as a porter or “Kayayei”.

Mundurukú Indians in Brazil Protest Tapajós Dams

By Fabiola Ortiz
It took them three days to make the 2,000-km journey by bus from their Amazon jungle villages.

In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor

By Elizabeth Whitman
Flowers burst out of old tires and rows of pepper plants fill recycled plastic tubs as herbs pop out of old pipes. As utilitarian as it is cheery, this rooftop array is one of several urban agriculture projects that are significantly improving livelihoods for the urban poor in this sprawling city.

Cuba, What Are Your Plans for the New Year?

By Leonardo Padura
After three decades of supposedly planned socialism (1960-1990), when government plans were often only halfway fulfilled, lost in oblivion due to lack of oversight or of realism, or in the best of cases carried out any which way just to live up to the goals, Cubans got used to waiting (with or without hope) for the political leadership, financed with heavy Soviet subsidies, to come up with the next “plan”.

Golan Druze Feel the Brunt of Syria’s Civil War

By Pierre Klochendler
The faint explosion is a reminder that though the newly refurbished fence protects their town, the two-and-a-half-year-old civil war which is tearing their motherland apart is never far off.

Africa Prepares for Central African Republic Deployment

By Jacey Fortin
The African Union is preparing to deploy thousands of troops in the Central African Republic as a deadly conflict there spirals further out of control.

Lynch Mobs Hide Behind ‘Community Justice’ in Bolivia

By Franz Chávez
Images of tortured bodies and barely recognisable faces, victims of lynch mobs made up of furious local residents, periodically shock Bolivian society.

U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Needs a Triple Play

By Thalif Deen
As the international community fleshes out a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be unveiled next year, civil society activists and U.N. officials agree their success will hinge on policies that address the nexus of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation.

Gaza Returns to Donkey Days

By Mohammed Omer
The garbage trucks of Gaza city are at a standstill due to an ongoing fuel shortage affecting all aspects of daily life, including garbage collection, sewage and waste disposal and other vital services. But the local donkeys are here to help.

Food Security, Trade Facilitation Clash in Bali

By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda
The World Trade Organisation’s ninth ministerial meeting at Bali, Indonesia has morphed into a fierce battle between the countries seeking social safety nets for hundreds of millions of poor people and those insisting on having advanced import-facilitation programmes in the developing countries on par with the industrialised nations.

Accra’s High Rents Means Ghanaians Lose

By Billie McTernan
Across Accra, Ghana's capital city, adverts for letting property can be found all over. But for as many placards there are, you will get just as many verbal warnings from locals cautioning people to beware of swindling agents.

WTO Urged Not to Treat Water Like Widgets

By Carey L. Biron
As government representatives gather Tuesday in Indonesia for what could be final negotiations towards a global trade agreement under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), environmentalists and social justice campaigners are urging them to specify that water resources cannot be treated as commodities.

Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us”

By Fabiana Frayssinet
The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina’s central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the weed-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant.

Ending AIDS in the City Where It Began

By Samuel Oakford
Four hundred Eighth Avenue, home to the largest welfare centre for people with AIDS in New York, is the kind of grey, drab city building that seems like it was dragged, scowling, into the 21st  Century.
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