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Vaccine Access Advocates Cautiously Optimistic As G20 Summit Ends With Pledge to 'Spare No Effort' to Ensure Widespread Distribution

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (top L), U.S. President Donald Trump (top R), South Korean President Moon Jae-in (down L), and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (down C) are seen on a screen before the start of a virtual G20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia and held over video conference amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in Brussels, on November 21, 2020. (Photo: Yves Herman/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

By Rejecting WTO Drug Patent Waivers Amid Pandemic, Richest Nations Put Big Pharma Profits Before Health of Billions

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A Syrian refugee walks near a camp outside Qah, Idlib province, on October 28, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad al-Atrash/AFP/Getty Images)

Rich countries—accused of hoarding future vaccines—are being urged to support a "humanitarian buffer" to innoculate refugees and people in conflict zones.

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'Best News in Quite a While': Dramatically Lower Flu Rates in Southern Hemisphere Offer Hope

Julia Conley, staff writer

Expert say countries in the north should note the "positive side effect" of...

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At #SandtonShutdown, South African Women Disrupt Business as Usual as Fury Over Gender-Based Violence Boils Over

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Protesters march against gender-based violence, organised by several NGO?s and organisations at the JSE in Sandton on September 13, 2019 in Sandton, South Africa.

"My body is not your war zone," read one protest signs.

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the Woolsey Fire

Global Poll Reveals Surging Fear of Climate Crisis and US Power Under Trump

South African Officials Among Many Denouncing Trump's "Disgusting" White Supremacist Talking Point on Land Reforms

South African business leader Bonang Mohale, left, wrote an open letter urging World Economic Forum attendees who oppose President Donald Trump's reported comments about African countries, to walk out of his speech there on Friday.

To Protest Racist Comments and Policies, Walkout Planned for Trump's Davos Speech

Tree trunks stand in the critically low Theewaterskloof Dam in Villiersdorp, South Africa, Jan. 23, 2018. (Photo: Reuters)

Climate Bellwether? With Cape Town Almost Out of Water, "Day Zero" Looms

At UN Hearing, South Africa Decries Israel as World's Last Functioning "Apartheid State"

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation, and Apartheid South Africa

From South Africa to Ireland, #BlackLivesMatter Finds Solidarity Worldwide

'Mass Struggle Works': South African Student Uprising Wins Tuition Hike Freeze

'Fees Must Fall': Student Uprising for Justice Sweeps South Africa

Greenpeace International Head Target of Surveillance Request Ahead of G20 Summit

'The Spy Cables': Al-Jazeera Teases Massive Global Intelligence Leak

Hundreds of Thousands March in 'Day of Rage' Against Israel

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Amnesty International - USA

Years of Impunity for Xenophobic Crimes Driving the Latest Attacks in South Africa

Earthjustice

South Africa: Activists in Mining Areas Harassed

Global Justice Now

Campaigners Accuse May of Crossing ‘Red Line’ on International Aid

350.org

Cape Town Heeds the Fossil Fuel Divestment Call

Jubilee USA Network

Former South African President Visits US to Stop "Illicit Financial Flows"...

Oxfam International

Urgent Action Needed as South Africa Faces Maize Drop Linked to ‘Super’ El Nino

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Juan Cole

Israel Was Designated an Apartheid State by B'Tselem. What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Thought of That.

Robert C. Koehler

The Parallel Universe of Peace

Laura Flanders

The US Spends More Than $80 Billion a Year Incarcerating 2.3 Million People

William Minter

Africa Could Power a Green Revolution

William Minter

Corporations Getting to Zero With GOP's Inside Help on Tax Avoidance

Celina della Croce

How Working-Class Movements Are Moving Beyond the Confines of Capitalism

Stefan Simanowitz

I Witnessed How Close South Africa Came to Civil War, 25 Years Ago Today

Ahmed Mokgopo

How a Development Bank is Propping Up the Fossil Fuel Industry in South Africa. And Why it Must Reverse Course

Glen Tyler

Coal Communities in South Africa Want Coal to Stop

Tony Burman

Winnie and MLK: Their Fight was Right — and It’s Not Over