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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe Nigerian moms’ Facebook group that helps thousands of impoverished womenAbuja Moms: The empowering story of how women are helping other women to fight gender violence and poverty in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘To learn a trade’Many children see vocational training, not formal schooling, as the way to escape back-breaking work
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘To become big men and women’Schools are assumed to be the path to success, but what if the schools are bad, cruel, or don’t exist?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe home economics of child labourYou can't stop child labour without confronting household poverty
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWestern hypocrisy: What Joe Biden gets wrong about RussiaThose in the Middle East know the kind of destruction seen in Ukraine all too well – the West was the perpetrator
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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerExplainer: What is ‘conversion therapy’?The UK government has reportedly stepped back from including protections for trans people in its banning of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘We have no helper in this world’Inequality is at the core of child labour, so why isn’t redistribution seen as the solution?
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Published in: Home: FeatureNigerian students on facing racism as they fled the Ukraine warTrying to escape Russia’s invasion was ‘dehumanising’, say Nigerians who were stopped by border guards prioritising...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTaken in the name of ‘rescue’: a child respondsGhanaian children are being wrenched from their parents and put into care homes to ‘save’ them from work
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Published in: 50.50: NewsMigrants scapegoated in South Africa as inequality and unemployment surgeThere are no quick fixes to South Africa’s problems – but politicians across the spectrum talk like turning on...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘To attain my future’Many say that working children should be in school. But for many children, work is what gets them an education
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘We will not have food to eat’When children work to survive, who can demand they stop?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChild workers speak: will anybody listen?Child labour can’t be abolished through force. To address it, we must attend to why children work in the first place
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy Ghana’s LGBTIQ community needs your helpGhana’s proposed new anti-gay law has led to attacks on the country’s LGBTQI community. This needs to stop
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe media disinformation campaign against Ghana’s queer communityGhanaian journalists are driving an anti-LGBTIQ campaign that could result in one of the world’s harshest homophobic laws
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Published in: 50.50: NewsHow a queer Kenyan film is outpacing homophobic colonial censorship law‘I Am Samuel’ is blocked in Kenya, but its filmmakers have found other ways to get their message across
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Published in: 50.50: NewsKenyan women march on police HQ after sex attack videoA female driver was stripped and sexually assaulted by a mob of men. Now Kenyan women are calling out the...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy I no longer celebrate International Women’s DayInstead of collective and confrontational resistance, we now celebrate individual women’s achievements in...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionAn African view of what’s happening in EuropeAfricans support the Ukrainian people, but centuries of experience also make us wary of ‘solutions’ by our former colonisers
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
