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‘Waste colonialism': this is how activists and scientists characterise the export of rubbish from the European Union to its main buyer Turkey. This waste, which has serious consequences for human (...)

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has classified it as a “major global environmental and health problem”. With the boom in shipping, and the ageing of fleets, the shipbreaking industry (...)

Helen Badr, 70, is one of many examples of how living conditions have deteriorated for Lebanese citizens. Like many of her neighbours, she cannot afford to pay the costly fees for a private (...)

With 70 per cent of people in sub-Saharan Africa aged under 30, Africa is the world's youngest continent and according to some projections, by 2030, 42 per cent of all youth globally will be (...)

As harsh mountain winter looms in the earthquake-ravaged village of Tafeghaghte, nestled on the High Atlas Mountains about 60 kilometres south-west of Marrakesh, 36-year-old Fatima Azem feels a (...)

The word ‘plastic' makes people think of many things: convenience, falseness, economy, surgery. When Shirley Payne thinks of plastics, she recalls a terrifying struggle against suffocation in (...)

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 just five years of working in adult social care in England, Tony Micklethwait (not his real name) has amassed a catalogue of experiences illustrating how underfunding and understaffing has (...)

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 (...)

Between the launch of the Soviet Sputnik-1, the world's first artificial satellite, in 1957, and the end of 2019, humanity sent some 8,500 objects into space. Three and a half years ago, 5,100 of (...)