Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water Defenders?
The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 -- a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn.
Global Struggles
A New Inequality Emphasis from the UN
Over the past 20 years, the UN Human Development Report — an effort to compare the world’s nations not just on economic growth, but health and education as well — hasn’t taken income inequality into account. The new 2010 report does. Check out the report and this appraisal of its significance.
