Editorial

Sophie Aujean :Tensions and conflicts over access to water continue to rise, as the world’s water resources and ecosystems deteriorate, and the threat of water...

Jan Lundius and Rosemary Vargas-Lundius : The recent rise of nationalism in some western countries has been fuelled by an anti-immigration campaign based on the...

Selim Jahan :The lack of women’s empowerment is a critical form of inequality. And while there are many barriers to empowerment, violence against women and...

Impacts of using fossil fuels A World Bank report released recently showed that nearly the entire population of Bangladesh, or at least a good chunk...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader :Global negotiations seeking to implement the Paris agreement have been captured by corporate interests and are being undermined by powerful forces that...

Benjamin Fox :One single sentence devoted to space activities in the EU-UK political declaration states that “the Parties should consider appropriate arrangements for co-operation on...

Jan te Bos :Buildings account for more than 40% of the EU’s energy bill and are responsible for over a third of European carbon-dioxide emissions.Still,...

Being deprived of any job opportunity, some injured garment workers of Tazreen Fashions have set up an example by setting a mini-factory after six years...

Bangladesh Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust laid off all the 20 industries it owned as corruption, inefficiency and the government’s faulty policy made them sick. In August,...

Economic inequality – involving both income and wealth concentration – has risen in nearly all world regions since the 1980s. Gross economic inequalities moderated for...

Cameron Diver :We live on a “blue planet” where water covers around 75 percent of the Earth’s surface. Without water we would simply not survive...

Frédéric Sansier and Hervé Conan :Today, 90% of jobs require a minimum level of digital skills, and 42% of Europeans who do not have them...