Society & Culture

The War No One Talks About: What Modern Conflict Is Doing to Women and Girls

There is a particular cruelty to the way modern wars are fought. Not just in their scale or their duration, but in what they...

Where Are The Frantz Fanons And Female Intellectuals Of The Northern Areas?

Why are areas like Timothy Valley, Barcelona, Helenvale, Bethelsdorp, Gelvandale, Missionvale, Kleinskool and elsewhere in existence, and all the other subeconomic areas of the...

What About The Problems We Are Facing In The Northern Areas Of Gqeberha?

What lies at the heart of the empires that built the African continent and South Africa today? They employed corruption at the core of...

Our children, our children: The time is now for the Northern Areas and Townships of Gqeberha

We are fighting a desperate fight for every boy child and girl child in the crime-infested, gangridden northern areas in the Eastern Cape. We...

AI Cities and the Global South’s Surveillance Trap

For most of history, the state was powerful but partly blind. AI cities may end that blindness, creating a new political temptation: not the...

International Scrutiny, Domestic Politics, and the Debate Over Muslim Rights in India

A March 2026 report by the Panel of Independent International Experts (PIIE) has reignited debate over the condition of Muslim communities in the Indian...

Travel Is Not Freedom. It Is Politics

When the World Was Meant for Everyone While we have 190+ countries in the world, South Asian countries are the ones that need to worry...

Education Cannot Stop at the Border: Protecting Children on the Move in Latin America and the Caribbean

Authors: Eladio Jiminez Made and Nicole Suarez Sabio* Every day across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), many children cross borders, rivers, jungles and dangerous...

The Fantasy of Multilateralism: Resource Leverage in Times of Crisis

Every January, heads of state, finance ministers and choice executives - essentially a hand-picked bunch of individuals holding immense financial power - convene at...

Turning the Tide at the G7 – School Meals for a Hungry World

These are dark days for international development. The UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with their promise of a world free of extreme poverty...

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