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  • Muslim women protestors sat together at Shaheen Bagh protest camp in March 2020

    Shaheen Bagh lives on

    The women of a south Delhi neighbourhood have inspired a protest movement which will long outlive their temporary encampment, writes Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya

  • International development has failed. krauze-development

    Essay: The death of international development

    ‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty

  • A group of protestors on a city street in Japan holding banners with both Japanese in English text, the English reading 'no more karoshi'

    How Japanese workers are fighting against karoshi

    Scott North looks at the history of the anti-karoshi movement in Japan and its struggle against death and injury from overworking

  • British and allied forces at Kandahar after the 1880 Battle of Kandahar, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

    Afghanistan: a brief history

    Understanding Afghanistan today is only possible by looking at it in the context of the part played by the competing imperial powers in its past. Jane Shallice offers a guide