Feeding India's protesting farmers: 'Modi's policies are doing nothing for the poor'.
Pushpinder Pal is one of tens of thousands of Indian farmers camped along nine miles (15km) of major roads outside Delhi, protesting about agricultural laws they claim will devastate their earnings. Based in Haryana, he collects food every day from his local gurdwara, a Sikhs' place of assembly, delivering spinach curry to huge numbers of protesters. The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, promised to increase farmers' incomes, but they claim his new policies are designed to favour rich corporations and not them. In one of the largest protests in history, farmers are pledging to stay put while they wait for their representatives to strike a deal with government
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Pressure and Release: horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians.
The Kimberley region of Western Australia is a beautiful place. But it is home to communities in crisis – devastated by a pattern of suicides among young Aboriginal people. A glimmer of hope emerges in the form of Prof Juli Coffin, a Nyangumarta w...
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Why Prague's homeless are resorting to poverty tourism.
Homelessness is on the rise globally, and the Czech Republic has the highest rate in central and eastern Europe. The Guardian visited Prague, for a long time a popular destination for tourists, to see how even this sector caters for the city’s vis...
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How coral sounds can heal dying reefs
This is the sound a coral reef makes. Scientists believe playing sounds of a healthy coral reef to a dying one could save damaged corals The world has lost half its coral reefs since the 1950s due to global heating, overfishing and pollution and 1...
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The sorry state of asylum seeker housing
The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale and Oldham who wanted to highlight the realities for women in the asylum system across Greater Manchester. Supported by the Elephants Trail, the group met women stuck in...
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How leasehold properties keep people poor
Because of laws brought in by William the Conqueror nearly a thousand years ago, a fifth of properties in England and Wales can be bought but you can never actually own them. The system is called “Leaseholding” and it’s a reality for 4.98 million ...
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