The recent outbreak of Ebola in the DRC and Uganda reflects a global hierarchy of whose lives are protected, whose diseases matter, and which crises are considered economically worth solving. It should not be normal that communities facing deadly outbreaks still depend primarily on improvisation, emergency goodwill, and delayed international attention. Neglected diseases is a euphemism for neglected populations.
With heavy losses for the governing Labour party, and huge gains for the rightwing populist party, Reform UK, the results of last week's local elections on 7 May have reverberated through the UK like an earthquake. Here is what will happen next
Local elections have led to a surge of racism in a country that still struggles to see itself as anything other than white
Richard Hewett, who was forced to sleep in his car when his relationship broke down, is one of many in the UK hit by rising costs and a lack of social housing
Most Muslims in India’s capital city live in areas often called “Muslim ghettos”. Under the right-wing rule of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as minorities continue to live uncertain lives, more people are pushed into already condensed and crowded neighbourhoods. Here, a former resident of one such “ghetto” takes a deep dive into the history, politics, and ontology of life in these precarious settlements.
When a DNA test revealed the author’s Roma heritage, he travelled to one of Europe’s largest Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller (GRT) gatherings—Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria—to learn more about this unique historic event.
Eric Stobbaerts was Head of Mission for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the former Yugoslavia from …
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