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Tabitha Ross describes how the conflict is affecting women exposed to gender-based violence, and the vital work of one Lebanese organization seeking to combat it.

Internet users used to be worried about government control of the web but the opposite may be true, writes Chris Spannos

The struggle for real Fairtrade is reminiscent of gladiator battles, writes Ben O'Hanlon.

Domestic violence has deep roots within modern society, but too often our legal system privileges the status quo instead of protecting the vulnerable, writes Brian Loffler.

Open and democratic societies cannot be built on fear and hatred, writes Nick Dearden.

The new scheme lacks understanding and will continue to marginalize the most vulnerable, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

As UN special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment presents his report today, Doug Weir explains why this is especially important in armed conflict.

Cartoon by Marc Roberts

More reviews from the March 2016 magazine.

Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye by Marie Mutsuki Mockett; This Is An Uprising by Mark Engler and Paul Engler; Bad News by Anjan Sundaram; Betty Boo by Claudia Piñeiro.

Like a Bird or Spirit, not a Face by Sainkho Namtchylak; De Montevert by De Montevert.

The Pearl Button, directed by Patricio Guzmán; The Survivalist, directed by Stephen Fingleton.

The author and reporter talks to Graeme Green about self-expression, dictatorship and the importance of a free press.

Turkey’s president is one of the political class’s more humourless and intolerant specimens.

Researchers from the Ocean Clean Up will place a 100-kilometre-long floating barrier off the Dutch coastline, Beulah Maud Devaney reports.