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Unbelievably, people still exist whose task in life is shovelling shit, as Mari Marcel Thekaekara explains.

Colombian activist Teófilo Acuña on the danger of confronting paramilitaries.

Water privatization heads back to public management around the world

Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills

A conscientious objector from Istanbul was beaten with sticks until he passed out

Brazil’s AIDS fight against Big Pharma continues

by Mitchell & Richardson

Tanzanian authorities launch a crackdown on anti-albino witch doctors

Dominica is a small island both in population and size. Yet the island feels a lot bigger than this, with dozens of mountain peaks, waterfalls and some say a river for every day of the year.

Lies, food & the poor by Eduardo Galeano

This collection of prowling, _lunfardo_ slang-inflected songs concentrates on an imagined lowlife of Buenos Aires.

The début album from the Israeli-born, London-based performance artist Anat Ben-David, is based on a grim paradox, leisure doesn’t exist – it’s virtual

Karen King-Aribisala's debut novel, a dark and brooding meditation on the stories we tell and the effect they have on everyday life

Donna Dickensen’s fascinating overview of the complex world of medical ethics

A masterful piece of film-making that leaves the audience gasping at the injustice of a 99 year sentence for a Mexican 'illegal' migrant following the death of the child she was minding