It is without a doubt that the coronavirus emergency has had a profound effect on our day-to-day lives. …

By Charlotte Brill It has been around three months since the COVID-19 lockdown begun in March and as restrictions gradually ease, pubs across the UK have begun selling takeaway pints — satisfying many people’s thirst for a cold, crisp draught beer. However, to maintain strict hygiene measures this has meant…

Three dead and two in critical condition at Royal Berkshire Hospital after ‘’major incident’’ in Reading town centre this evening. Police have cordoned a large part of central Reading after multiple people were stabbed in Forbury Gardens, a usually tranquil place frequented by hundreds of people a day. According to…

The concept ‘Grassroots Humanitarianism’ is neither new, nor fixed. It is a dynamic conceptualisation that has been historically integral to the wider theorisation and practices of aid and development (Fechter and Schwittay 2019:1769), insofar that it has been considered the emergent ‘fourth pillar’ of development aid (Develtere and De Bruyn…

‘Bonded Labour’ is a form of ‘unfree’ labour generally characterised by ‘extreme forms of attachment between worker and employer’ (Frantz, 2013:1072) caused by a combination of ‘rules, regulations, ideas and practices’ (Barrientos et al, 2013:1040). Bonded labour is manifested in myriad culturally distinct ways meaning that its current conceptualisation has…

Origionally Published 9 December 2019. Every Sunday, Hong Kong’s central district is transformed by the Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs), most of whom are Filipino or Indonesian women. For six days a week this area is an austere financial district of banks, designer brands and luxury hotels until Sunday when it…

Religion is at the core of African sociality, affecting the way people live their lives and engage with the state. It is central to the vast majority of Africans’ identities and for many it is not simply a faith but a reality which they earnestly embody and live by. Pentecostal-Charismatic…

… and the children immediately burst into exuberant song and dance. I cannot help but grin, properly, ear to ear. As I watch these beaming children, enchanted by the uplifting rhythms and beats, I realise, for the first time, the great power of music and dance. I had been to…

‘’My eyes were very painful’’, said an Indonesian migrant worker who was caught in a cloud of tear gas on her day off. This tear gas came from nearby pro-democracy protests, which rapidly intensified since they started in June 2019. …