Global warming has increased global economic inequality. Some countries have profited from climate change while the same rise in average planetary temperatures has dragged down economic…
LONDON, 21 March, 2019 − So Old Man River is getting a day in court: a growing international initiative is seeing to it that rivers gain…
One of New Zeland’s darkest days, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it – the day when a far-right Christian extremist took 49 lives of Muslims…
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, announced the Vatican’s plans to hold a special assembly devoted to the environmental problems of…
Illiberal governments attack civil society because it is able to control them, argues professor Balazs Trencsenyi, Head of the Department of History at the Central…
The Romanian ruling coalition is undermining the rule of law at the moment when Romania is preparing to take over for the first time the…
EU’s supreme court of Justice ruled out Kafkaesque limitations to environmental justice. Europe’s citizens should be able to seek justice against environmental permits, while authorities should…
Polish fight for women’s rights dressed in black in 2016 when hundreds of thousands of women stood against a restrictive anti-abortion bill. In March 2018…
Sir: While self-censorship is more or less understandable for journalists, who are considerably more exposed to muzzles, harassment, threats and violence – such as Pakistan…
On the way back from a public inspection of an illegal construction in a protected area on 28 December, 2017, strangers attacked and brutally beat…


