When we buy Rainforest Alliance tea what impact are we really having? Dr Marie Pillon travels to Tanzania to speak with tea pickers for one of the world’s largest multinational companies, Unilever, who earn less than the living wage. She discovers that while some lives are transformed by the certification, many workers are still not paid a living wage and struggling for clean water.
The Batwa community of Uganda are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, but they have limited means of adapting and are being left out of crucial policy shaping
In a year like no other what have we learned about ourselves and what our communities could become? Follow us from the UK to Poland, Italy, the US, Mexico and Bangladesh in our editor’s pick of the most noteworthy, enraging and inspiring stories from an unforgettable year.
This new documentary about the death of Rashan Charles under police restraint examines previously unseen CCTV footage, questions the quality of the investigation and criticises the “accidental” deletion of evidence.
Meet the Abortion Without Borders women who are working across European borders to resist threats to reproductive rights in Poland. “It was the most incredible, amazing experience of my life,” the veteran women’s rights activist Mara Clarke told me. “It was totally insane. But also really wonderful. And proof that sisters and siblings can get shit done when they want to…”
Since one of the fastest growing migrations in recent history, the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been living in a climate of uncertainty and mistrust. Now, confronted by a global pandemic and the prospect of being banished to an island for quarantine, will the Covid crisis strip the last remaining rights of the Rohingya people?
A collection of poetry, interviews, research and reporting on the continued marginalisation of Black people in the UK and the US
