Argentina’s Misiones province has a bit of a problem. As several local newspapers have reported, thefts of the province’s main agricultural commodity, often referred to simply as “the green leaf” or ...

The year was 1993. Just miles away from the busy city center of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the battered corpses of young girls and women were found in the desert; they were discarded like garbage after ...

Across the world, a new generation of cities is emerging. Egypt’s administrative capital is rising from the desert, intended to relieve the congestion of Cairo and attract foreign capital. Indonesia ...

Two hundred and fifty thousand workers under the Kafala system in Lebanon are currently struggling to survive in an exploitative system. Conflicts within the country due to an economic recession and ...

Italy has traditionally been a country of emigration, holding the record for largest voluntary emigration in recorded history: 13 million people between 1880 and 1915. This resettlement was mainly due ...

The Rwandan Genocide, born from intense strife and structural inequality between Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, is infamous for its brutality. Within 100 days, upwards of 800,000 people were violently ...

Russia and Japan have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end World War II. Both nations’ reluctance boils down to their dispute over a string of islands stretching from Hokkaido, Japan’s ...

The first step to assess the success of the EDF is to look at the production revenue of the biggest European producers. The ASD—which represents over 90 percent of European companies involved in ...

How does overpopulation change a country? Though China and the United States have similar land surface areas of 3.6 million square miles and 3.5 million square miles, respectively, the two global ...

Even though scientists knew how to extract the alkaloid cocaine from the leaf, the indigenous communities in the Andean countries were the main group cultivating the plant. As the 20th century ...

A leader in exile. Children forced into cultural assimilation. A barrage of failed protests. For more than 50 years, China, a global superpower with a population over 400 times that of Tibet, has ...

Vivek Maru is the CEO and founder of Namati, which advances social and environmental justice by building a movement of people who know, use, and shape the law. Namati works on the ground in six ...