By Emma Frith Joe Biden has been the new US President for less than a month, but he has already got to work with putting new policies into place. With his proposed minimum wage increase […]
Category: Global Issues
What is gender-based violence?
By Amy Cartledge & Maheen Behrana Violence against women is certainly not an uncommon term. But why is it that, despite having the language to discuss these gender-based issues, we are so poorly equipped to […]
Candid Orange x TVINAT: reframing the conversation around violence against women
By Maheen Behrana Candid Orange and This Violence is Not a Tragedy are collaborating on a series of articles discussing violence against women, from the UK and across the globe. we cannot end this violence […]
The humanitarian crisis in Somalia
By Halimah Begum The country of Somalia has been going through a crisis for many years, dealing with issues regarding state protection and conflict. What does this mean for Somalian people? Somalis have had to […]
Nicholas Sarkozy: Why corruption charges could give a former French President a path back to power
By Sacha Perera Elected president in 2007 for going against the grain of traditional French politics, Nicolas Sarkozy now finds himself on trial for following suit in his approach to the law. But could the […]
Meet Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees
By Jack Walker Despite President Trump’s best efforts to nullify, reject and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the presidential transition period has now begun with Joe Biden naming some of his key […]
Who is winning the COVID-19 vaccine race?
This week, stock markets soared, oil prices jumped, and hope reverberated across the world as pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their experimental COVID-19 vaccine has been found to be more than 90% effective […]
The truth behind your iPhone 12: What is happening in Congo?
Global appetite for cobalt is soaring, and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are paying the price. In the South-East corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo around 973 miles from the nation’s capital, […]
Why is Indonesia fighting President Widodo’s oppressive economic plan?
By Anna Shepherd On 5th October 2020, the Omnibus Law on Job Creation was passed in Indonesia, simplifying 79 existing laws concerning various, unrelated rights of Indonesian citizens. This kind of controversial law has come […]
Cyprus’s “golden” passport scheme awarding EU citizenship to wealthy fugitives
By Sacha Perera Earlier this week, two prominent Cypriot government officials resigned following the release of Al Jazeera’s The Cyprus Papers Uncovered, a documentary exposing a corrupt citizenship investment scheme which sold EU passports and […]