Lebanon's migrant pump attendants feel the pain of fuel shortages

As shortages force drivers to wait in line for small amounts of fuel, many of Lebanon's mainly migrant petrol station attendants have been threatened, attacked and even shot at by angry motorists

Afrigen gears up to deliver Africa's first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

WHO picked Afrigen Biologics for a pilot to give poor and middle-income countries the licenses to make COVID-19 vaccines

Mass demolitions, evictions as Nigeria continues housing push

Lagos state razed more than 400 informal homes in a coastal neighbourhood it has earmarked for affordable housing

'Partisan' evidence led to curbs on trans drug treatment, UK court told

Lawyers for England’s only youth gender clinic say landmark High Court ruling constituted ‘unjustified discrimination’ against transgender children

U.S. bans imports of solar panel material from Chinese company

At least some of the companies listed by the U.S. Commerce Department are major manufacturers of monocrystalline silicon and polysilicon that are used in solar panel production

ANALYSIS-Great Barrier Reef row piles pressure on Australia for climate action

Australia hits back at U.N. move to downgrade the reef’s World Heritage status, but climate scientists say Canberra should do more to curb threat from global warming

It 'is a shame' - EU to take steps against Hungary over anti-LGBT bill

Hungary has approved a bill that bans the dissemination of material in schools deemed to promote homosexuality or gender change

AI is watching: What to know about workplace surveillance

Firms say surveillance tech protects them and boosts the bottom line, but unions warn it is too easy for employers to collect intimate, personal data and use it against their workers

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OPINION: The UNGPs are 10 years old. What needs to happen now?

Now, a decade later, we are calling on corporate and financial actors to finally stop lining their pockets with profits from worker exploitation

OPINION: No one must be left behind in Britain’s response to HIV

Migrants must be a key part of the British Government’s HIV Action Plan to end new cases by 2030

OPINION: Why we need more women in engineering

We must overturn the caricature of a grubby profession for men in hard hats and high-vis jackets