Small businesses may look marginal, but for individual households they represent independence. We talk with Victoria Belim-Frolova.

‘Government, say something...we need justice, we need security...hunger is killing us’

Once the state identifies an area, it must also ask, ‘What else is known about [it]?’

Protesters are demanding development, jobs and dignity, the same slogans that drove the 2011 revolution

‘Any activity that disrupts ocean health could have downstream consequences...’

‘There can be no legitimate development when its realization depends on the destruction of what sustain a people’s existence’

There is an urgent need for more Indigenous individuals to collaborate before the few individual leaders burn out

Rural women in Kazakhstan work 10 to 15 hours per day, most of it uncounted and unpaid

Blackouts in Cyrenaica (Barqa) stop wells and pumps, turning an electricity breakdown into a water crisis