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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The wealth gap is noticeable everywhere, and in this article, Insider Monkey brings you the list of 25 most unequal countries with the worst income equality in the world. If you look at the ...

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 ...

"Poverty in material terms is inextricably linked with poverty of [health] data" argues Peter Byass (Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden) this week in the Magazine section of open access ...