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For Ana Ruzo, life pre-Covid-19 pandemic was already one of uncertain death tolls. Before the virus confined Chileans to their homes, the filmmaker and photographer took to Santiagos streets for months alongside more than a million others throughout the rest of the country to protest against rampant inequality, demonstrations that…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Monday kicked off the process for selecting a new director-general, after its current chief Roberto Azevedo decided to leave a year early. With Azevedo, a Brazilian career diplomat, now set to leave on August 31, the WTO opened a one-month window for would-be successors…
Amid national outrage over the recent death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, thousands of people have taken the streets to protest demanding justice for Floyd and other black citizens who have died in the hands…