Singapore votes as city-state prepares to mark 60 years of independence | Elections News
Singapore – David Wee has lived in the same terrace house with his family in the east of Singapore his entire life. But over more…
Thousands attend Sanders’ ‘fighting oligarchy’ rally in Los Angeles | Inequality News
US senator joined by AOC, who slams Trump’s ‘corrupt and disastrous tariff scheme’ as ploy to enrich corporate cronies.Tens of thousands of people have gathered…
Reverse reparations: Zimbabwe’s perfect trap, South Africa’s looming danger | Debt News
On February 7, the White House cut aid to South Africa, citing a nonexistent threat to white farmers from government land expropriation. To see what…
New Report: EV Mandates Risk Economic Disruption, Deepen Inequality
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‘Serious violations’ found in South Korean foreign adoptions programme | Child Rights News
Multiple violations were unearthed by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigation into the adoption of South Korean children by foreigners.An investigation by South Korea’s Truth…
Korean American sues Trump admin to stop deportation over campus activism | Civil Rights News
Yunseo Chung, 21, moved to the US when she was seven and now faces deportation over pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University.United States permanent resident and…
Women worldwide march to demand end to violence, inequality | Women News
Demonstrations from Buenos Aires to Lagos demand justice for victims of femicide and urge reforms to protect women.Demonstrators have taken to the streets across Asia,…
Inequality, corruption and police brutality in Kenya | TV Shows
In 2024, thousands of young Kenyans took to the streets to protest the country’s deepening cost-of-living crisis and the controversial finance bill proposed by the…
Does ‘cancel culture’ help or hinder free speech? | TV Shows
Today on The Stream: Has the line between accountability and censorship blurred with the rise of cancel culture?While some see cancel culture as a powerful tool…
Oxfam says billionaires’ wealth soared in 2024, with 4 ‘minted’ every week | Inequality News
The group’s report comes as some of the world’s political and financial elite prepare for an annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland.Billionaires’ wealth globally grew three…
Squid Game and South Korean Politics: Socioeconomic Inequality and Power Struggles
Netflix’s Squid Game has captured global attention with its depiction of a deadly survival game where financially desperate individuals are forced to compete for a…
Forgotten no more: The Black South Africans who died in WWI Africa | The World Wars
Cape Town, South Africa – On January 23, 1915, two boatmen named Dolly Jenniker and Zulu Madhliwa drowned in the Orange River in South Africa.…
US homelessness up 18 percent in last year amid cost of living crisis | Homelessness News
Continued rise in homelessness in the United States driven largely by lack of affordable housing options, experts say.The number of people living in homelessness in…
Why are New Zealand’s Maori protesting over colonial-era treaty bill? | Civil Rights News
A fight for Maori rights drew 42,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington on Tuesday. A nine-day-long hikoi, or peaceful march…
Zambia’s Kariba Dam crisis is one of inequality | Climate Crisis
As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern Africans are learning that some…
Why New Zealand’s PM has apologised to 200,000 abused in state care | Civil Rights News
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Tuesday made an unprecedented formal and “unreserved” apology to survivors of abuse in state and church care over…
What is the 4B feminist movement from S Korea that’s taking off in the US? | US Election 2024 News
A feminist movement sweeping South Korea, in which women are saying “No” to any form of intimate relationships with men, is taking hold in the…
Commonwealth summit in Samoa: Why won’t the UK discuss slavery? | Human Rights News
Commonwealth leaders have gathered in Samoa for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week. This is the first time the summit has…
The Floating Doctors: Mobile medicine comes to Panama’s jungles | Health
‘A true blessing’ At the conclusion of the second day of the clinic, the tired volunteers walk down a muddy hill to bathe in the…
‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, African migrants feel abandoned | Israel attacks Lebanon News
Soreti*, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker living in Lebanon, says she feels lucky to be alive. She was not home when Israeli air strikes struck…