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News that a Saudi court has sentenced three members of the Huwaitat tribe to death for opposing eviction to enable the construction of a controversial desert ‘giga-project' has been met with (...)

Thulie Mbatha wakes up at 4am every weekday to catch the first bus from Soweto, the township where she lives, to Sandton, an affluent suburb located to the north of Johannesburg in South Africa. (...)

Despite low government investment and a lack of legal framework to guide their use, geospatial technologies are being applied in a wide range of fields across Africa, and are proving to be (...)

“My job currently consists of looking for a job. I spend every day looking for companies who are hiring,” says Nour Shaheen, a 24-year-old Palestinian university graduate. Two years after finishing (...)

It is no small feat for an alternative news media to reach the grand old age of 10. At a time when newsroom budgets are being slashed and audiences are becoming more and more fragmented, we are (...)

Shadrack Omuka is a freelance journalist and a photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya. He specializes in science, culture, human rights, environment, business, climate change and technology. His work has appeared in publications including Earth Island Journal, Equal Times, News Deeply, Inter Press Service, Thomson Reuters, Water World and World Economic Forum, among others.

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 (...)

According to Pris Polly Lengkong, chairman of the Indonesian Waste Pickers Union (Ikatan Pemulung Indonesia, or IPI), which aims to provide a voice for the millions of informal workers in the (...)

Maryna Mykolayivna's eyes are hot with tears. She stabs the air angrily with pointed fingers as she describes how on 24 February 2022, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, her employer at an orphanage (...)

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 (...)