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Water futures: the latest battleground in the defence of the fundamental right to water According to the United Nations, water use has increased sixfold over the past century and is rising by about 1 per cent a year. For stock market traders in the United States, water futures offer an opportunity to lock-in water prices, but human rights campaigners say, “it is a serious mistake to consider water a commodity”. (AP/Esteban Felix ) Share this page According to the United Nations, water use has increased sixfold over the past century and is rising by about 1 per cent a year. For stock mark...

Bernard Duterme: “The environmental movement must be urgently decolonised” “Large-scale polluters who refuse to make commitments to match their obligations are exacerbating the environmental crisis,” explains Bernard Duterme, sociologist and director of the Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. (Margot Duterme ) 25 January 2021 Share this page “Large-scale polluters who refuse to make commitments to match their obligations are exacerbating the environmental crisis,” explains Bernard Duterme, sociologist and director of the Tricontinental Centre (CETRI)...

Illicit financial flows hinder development in Africa – the UN must rise to the challenge of ending this “Eliminating illicit financial flows is not impossible, as many think. First of all, we must all realise that they constitute a real violation of human rights,” says Jolie de Poukn, an activist with ATTAC-Africa. Photo taken in March 2020 near Khartoum Airport in Sudan. (Mohammed Abdelmoneim Hashim Mohammed ) 21 January 2021 Share this page “Eliminating illicit financial flows is not impossible, as many think. First of all, we must all realise that they constitute a real violation o...

Across the US, the pandemic has turned a generation of renters into activists Demonstrators are arrested by police during a rent strike protest in New York City on 1 October 2020. The US could be on the verge of “the most severe housing crisis in its history” according to the Aspen Institute, with an estimated 30 to 40 million people at risk of eviction. (Brian Branch Price/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News ) Share this page Demonstrators are arrested by police during a rent strike protest in New York City on 1 October 2020. The US could be on the verge of “the most severe housing crisis in its...

The young creative bringing India’s rural folk musicians to the world – via a backpack Abhinav Agrawal (centre) sits with folk musicians as he sets up his mobile studio in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. (Anahad Foundation ) 8 January 2021 Share this page Abhinav Agrawal (centre) sits with folk musicians as he sets up his mobile studio in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. (Anahad Foundation ) In 2011 when Abhinav Agrawal was studying architecture in the central Indian city of Bhopal, every weekend he would catch a random train to visit a different part of the country. Getting off at both teeming ...