One year after actor Colin Firth launched a campaign to save the Awá, " Earth’s most threatened tribe", other celebrities have joined him and his wife Livia in backing the [...]

The certification system run by the Responsible Jewellery Council - which meets in Milan on 23 May - is misleading consumers, says an international coalition of labour and [...]

At least $18.5 trillion is hidden by wealthy individuals in tax havens worldwide, representing a loss of more than $156 billion in tax revenue, according to new figures.

People in Sri Lanka's former war-torn Northern Province have been protesting a government move to forcibly acquire land in the Jaffna peninsula which they claim is a ploy to [...]

Activists from around the world blocked the entrance to the construction site of the Ilisu Dam in Turkey yesterday, demanding an end to the controversial development that [...]

On Thursday the world will celebrate ten years of fighting fistula, a foul condition that affects up to 3 million women and girls in the Global South. But there are questions [...]

The tradition of civil disobedience is being reignited, says Greenpeace leader Kumi Naidoo.

A new report reveals the US spent millions spying on Occupiers and other anti-corporate activists.