Currently in India, farmers have marched on capital cities in force to protest the introduction of new laws that will tip the scales of the nation’s agricultural industry, against small small farmers, in favour of massive corporations that promise to absorb the smaller, traditional producers, upon which millions of livelihoods depend on. A...

Regeneration should be a part of all our lives. We live and work in a certain way but eventually most things lose their momentum and should be either changed or ended. At SafeGround, we have faced regeneration many times since our inception in 1992. As I type that date it drives home the huge amount of work...

Like many countries in South and Central America, peace is often fluctuating in and out of reach. Nicaragua is one such country; no stranger to revolution and uprising. For forty-three years, from 1936 to 1979, the country was ruled by the Somoza family. The Nicaraguan Revolution (1960’s to 1970’s) began as a result of the opposition to the...

By Iva Zimova A woman waves a red and white flag, adopted by the Belarusian opposition, from the window of an apartment block high above massed crowds of demonstrators who have come onto the streets to voice their opposition to the 2020 presidential election result, the Belarusian government, and above all President Alexander Lukashenko. The...

By Kasun Ubayasiri and Rwango Kadafi APRIL, 2020: At the onset of Africa’s COVID outbreak, residents of the Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest in the world, live in fear of infection as they struggle to access the most basic protections like soap and clean water.  Their situation is exacerbated by the cramped living conditions which...

Shale Thompson walks back towards the Deebing Creek camp “If this goes there's nothing else left.” Stepping through the gate onto the old Deebing Creek mission site, I'm met with an overwhelming sense of peace. The bushland remains untouched, the wildlife flourishing overhead and the carefully erected camps work within the landscape, rather than...

A Changa shepard leads her flock out of camp for the dayA mountain range of the Himalaya in the Indian state of Ladakh The Tibetan Plateau is often referred to as the roof of the world. One can’t quite grasp the accuracy of this name until they see the snow-capped Himalayas disappearing amongst swathes of stark white clouds. The Changpa Nomads...

By Siddhant Vashistha Frequent landslides have made it clear that Kerala, India needs to control the business of quarrying. On the seventh of August heavy rains were followed by a massive landslide in Kerala’s Idukki district. The landslide occurred at Pettimudi, a region that is a part of the tea estates which also join the fringes of the...