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* If recent trends continue, the number of murders that have occurred since the current government took office in December 2018 is on track to reach 200,000 by October of this year, an (...)

Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice (...)

“Since the first Russian aggression, we have stood with the workers.” Yevgen Drapiatyi, vice-president of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (Федерація професійних спілок України, FPU), scrolls (...)

Under the midday sun, lugging a heavy cooler in one hand and a mini barbecue in the other, Edimar Santiago walks the length and breadth of Rio de Janeiro's Vermelha beach, performing a ritual that (...)

It's 5pm on a lively Saturday afternoon in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. A central avenue has become the epicentre of what is now popularly known as the feria del contrabando, or contraband (...)

Solar energy has saved the lives of Rabab's children on more than one occasion. Mahmoud, 15, and Kamal, 11, are asthmatic and need to use their nebulisers daily to avoid choking episodes that (...)

In his 1930 book Train in the Snow (Vlak u snijegu), Croatian writer Mato Lovrak tells the story of a group of schoolchildren who travel to a nearby town for a field trip. As they are supposed to (...)

Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice (...)

In a non-descript industrial building in a working-class area of Hong Kong, 10,000 books were cleared from a cubbyhole bookshop at the end of January 2024 as the small business closed its doors (...)