International

With virtually no government assistance, laid-off Honduran factory workers have had no choice but to defy extreme lockdown measures and take to the streets.

The Malaysian economist was one of the world's leading advocates of policies to reduce economic disparities within and between nations.

 “I think this moment global pandemic is showing us very clearly that all human life is interrelated, which means that none of us is safe until all of us are safe.” 

This month a peaceful resistance movement marks eight years of struggle against a gold mining project that threatens scarce water supplies.

New mapping tool reveals conflicts and harmful impacts of eight Pan American Silver mine sites across Latin America.

U.S. activists need to understand how corruption, oligarchy, and inequality at the national level are tied to similar patterns around the world.

Workers not only create pressure to reform laws and regulation. They can influence the strategies for enforcing labor standards too.

The new president has appointed a former mining executive to a high-level post, worrying indigenous communities that have long protested the company’s harmful extraction activities.

Governments and consumers will have much to gain if labor power can provide a check on the runaway predatory business model that platform companies have exported around the world.