We’re among the thousands boycotting the UN food summit – it’s been hijacked by corporate interests while the voices of small-scale farmers go unheardThursday’s UN food summit proposes to help solve the world’s nutrition crisis, with 800 million people…
UN food summit will be ‘elitist’ and ‘pro-corporate’, says special rapporteur
Michael Fakhri says Thursday’s meeting will not be promised ‘people’s summit’ on tackling world’s nutrition crisisThe UN global food summit is “elitist and regressive” and has failed in its goal of being a “people’s summit”, according to the special ra…
Big pharma fuelling human rights crisis over Covid vaccine inequity – Amnesty
Six companies warned not to put profit before lives as report shows less than 1% of almost 6bn doses have gone to low-income countriesAmnesty International has accused six pharmaceutical companies that have developed Covid-19 vaccines of fuelling a glo…
Zahra Joya: the Afghan reporter who fled the Taliban – and kept telling the truth about women
As a child in Afghanistan, she pretended to be a boy in order to get an education, before starting her own women’s news agency. Now living in Britain, her fight continuesJust over a month ago, Zahra Joya left her house in Kabul to walk to her office, a…
‘Ecofeminism is about respect’: the activist working to revolutionise west African farming
Mariama Sonko is an unstoppable force who continued her work even when she was ostracised by her community in SenegalOutside Mariama Sonko’s home in the Casamance region of southern Senegal pink shells hang on improvised nets that will be placed in man…
Argentina to lift almost all Covid restrictions as cases and deaths fall
Masks will no longer be required outdoors as government says country could be at ‘end of pandemic’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMasks will no longer be required outdoors in Argentina as the country’s government announced t…
Religious rehab centres fill gap as Nigeria grapples with soaring drug use
With poverty deepening, state services are failing to cope with rising rates of addictionKola* was in secondary school in Nigeria when he started smoking cigarettes. He soon graduated to cannabis, heroin and eventually to crack cocaine. Access to drugs…
‘It’s heartbreaking’: Steve McCurry on Afghan Girl, a portrait of past and present
The US photographer’s image of Sharbat Gula captured the story of a country, its people and refugees across the world. Thirty six years on, another picture tells a similar tale – but also one of hopeOn 1 September, a young Afghan girl stood in line wit…
Climate crisis leaving ‘millions at risk of trafficking and slavery’
Droughts and floods forcing workers from rural areas, leading to their exploitation in cities, report warnsMillions of people forced to leave their homes because of severe drought and powerful cyclones are at risk of modern slavery and human traffickin…
How thousands of Haitian migrants ended up at the Texas border
Gang violence, bloody protests, food and fuel shortages plus natural disasters have spurred many to leave the west’s poorest nationEvery night Guy would fall asleep to the sound of gunfire: warring gangs in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, were fig…