DECCA: For Ramzy, guest editing this issue was highly personal.

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

Many people around the world might not know of us, for our struggle rarely makes headlines.

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...

Adverts gleam with promises of transformation and transcendence – via material objects. Jean Kilbourne decodes this gigantic propaganda effort. A recent ad for Thule car-rack systems features a child ...

Ian Curtis and Joy Division stand out. Not least because their music portrayed emotions, sorrows and terrors in a way that most popular music never comes within a country mile of and because Ian ...

As COP28 winds down, Hamza Hamouchene sounds the alarm about the dark side of climate capitalism. It now has another claim to fame however, as just six miles away from the town is one of the biggest ...

What is a corporation? Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary defines it as 'an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility'. It is a legal construct, a charter granted by the ...

Co-founder of the Debt Collective debtors' union Astra Taylor speaks to Amy Hall about building collective power to abolish illegitimate debt.

Billions in aid, coupled with Egypt’s harsh new asylum law represent a ‘ruinous’ model that rewards militarism over public services. Sara Elbashir and Louis Boyd-Madsen report from Cairo. Fatima is ...