Saladin Ahmed is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. Updated January 11, 2015, 12:57 AM Guns should not be used to silence speech. Governments should not censor art. These things are, or ...

The summit of Mount Everest, in case you haven’t heard, has become somewhat of a trash heap, a high-profile embarrassment that some have taken to calling the “world’s highest garbage dump.” A ...

Until education replaces absence, and opportunity replaces necessity, the debate remains trapped between two boys, two jobs and one unequal world. PICTURE two boys before we rush to judge. Not every ...

Latin America is a region with tremendous contrasts. Home to the second richest man in the world and about 5 percent of the world’s billionaires, the poor are strikingly poor. Infant mortality and ...

Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...

Inequality is rising almost everywhere around the world – that’s the clear finding of the first ever World Inequality Report. In particular, it has grown fastest in Russia, India and China – places ...

Thomas Piketty argues that education is a big equaliser in a highly unequal society like South Africa. But it must be good quality education. Reuters/Rogan Ward It is often said that South Africa is ...