Society & Culture

By removing the word “elimination” from Indonesia’s proposed sexual violence bill, the nation no longer seeks to stop sexual violence, but merely punish it. While there have been small gender…

This article analyses the behavior of Brazilian institutions, in particular Congress and the Supreme Court, in reaction to attacks and threats…

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the important intersections of climate change, food security, migration, and socio-economic inequalities. An understanding of the gendered dimensions of these interconnected global concerns is crucial…

The failure of scholars to recognize the agency of children in political spheres matches the failure in practice to engage children when developing programs aimed at responding to their specific…

This article highlights Puerto Rico’s energy injustices and efforts to upend harmful, traditional forms of power governance that threaten the creation of decarbonized and decentralized power systems that advance self-determination.

The case of the ninety-nine-year lease of Hambantota Port to China has become the example par excellence of Chinese debt-trap diplomacy. While China’s influence over Sri Lanka has…

The Mapuche movements in Chile have had an important role in recent decades, pressing for changes to the nation-state model that will allow recognition of their rights of…

The Syrian Civil War has witnessed grassroots mobilization for education combined with agendas of political resistance. Here is why education lends itself to activism…

One casualty of Venezuela’s ongoing humanitarian crisis has been women’s access to contraception. Any meaningful effort to work through the crisis smartly and seriously must start with family planning investments,…

Since several hundred thousand Rohingya refugees from Myanmar sought asylum in Bangladesh over three and a half years ago, joining a few hundred thousand who arrived earlier, there are no…