The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated many existing social inequalities, the largest of which may be the wealth gap. In 2019, prior to the onset of the pandemic, the richest one percent of Americans were worth 35.4 trillion dollars, just shy of the combined wealth of the entire 50th to 90th
Hundreds of thousands of farmers have converged on New Delhi in the past weeks to protest the passing of a series of farm bills by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, culminating in a nationwide general strike on Tuesday, December 8. The bills, which farmers say they were not consulted on, were
A report commissioned by the Australian Defence Force implicated members of the Australian special forces, particularly personnel from the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), in the murder of 39 Afghan civilians. The report, which followed a four-year investigation by Maj Gen Justice Paul Brereton, documented 23 incidents in which members
On Friday, October 23, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari reported that at least 51 civilians have been killed during widespread protests against police brutality over the past few weeks. Additionally, eleven police officers and seven members of the army have been reported dead, with a further 37 civilians injured – although
A 2020 report by Amnesty International has reported the deaths of three migrants who were held in a detention camp in Saudi Arabia. The victims—men from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen—were all housed at the Al-Dayer detention centre. Since 2017, Saudi Arabia has been cracking down on illegal immigrants, including the
