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Anass Bouzid has long held the dream of emigrating to Germany. He’d love to go to Frankfurt, because the German financial hub is where some of his family live, he …
Economic boom in Tangier leaves a few winners and many losers Read More
The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. That’s the …
NAACP Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Deception to Conceal Damage to BIPOC Communities Read More Europe has an opportunity to use the textiles strategy, due to be published this year, to build on its history of textile manufacturing and switch to a more sustainable industry, …
A circular economy for textiles to design out waste and pollution Read More
It has been a year since a poorly planned and violently implemented lockdown led to the forced displacement of migrant workers from our cities. Countless stories of violence, hunger, death …
A Year Since the Lockdown, Women Migrant Workers Remain Unrecognised Read More
Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year-old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbours, but they inhabit different universes. Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than …
Brazilians thrown back into poverty as COVID aid dries up Read More
Millions of dollars in aid to Lebanon are being lost in currency exchange as inflation soars out of control, but internal UN documents and interviews with officials suggest that fixing …
Aid millions wasted in Lebanese currency collapse Read More
More people than ever in the United Kingdom are suffering from food poverty, with even working families turning to charities for help, aid agencies say. In a damning statistic issued …
UK: Food banks outnumber McDonald’s restaurants Read More
Despite being the most affected group by the coronavirus-induced crisis, young Europeans feel increasingly left out from the plans for post-pandemic recovery. Experts call for targeted measures to support them …
European recovery sidelines the young generation Read More
Global businesses sourcing commodities such as cattle, soybeans or rubber stand to lose some $53 billion due to deforestation unless they take action. In a survey of more than 500 …
Deforestation: The $53bn threat to agri-businesses Read More
It is not the case that any minimum wage is bad. Equally true, it is not the case that any biofuels demand is bad. Empirical evidence finds that a set …
Minimum wage policies offer a lesson for advancement of farming Read More