While the fight for democracy continues in Egypt and Libya, it has been all but snuffed out in Serbia. Eight years after the death of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, questions remain as to whether his real killers are behind bars, writes Milly Stilinovic, who was part of the 2000 revolution which saw the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic's oppressive regime.

If you wouldn’t support a shoe factory that uses slave labor, then why would you support industries that enslave – and slaughter – non-humans? Tim Gier argues there is no justification.

Many staunch environmentalists are abandoning their alignment with nature and embracing earth-changing technology to save the planet. But this ‘new environmentalism’ lacks humility, and unless tempered, is likely to create even more problems and damage to our already frail ecosystems, writes Paul Wapner.

In her continuing series on Palestine, Lynda Renham-Cook speaks to Palestinian photographer Ahmad Mesleh who takes photos of his countrypeople as they struggle to fight against an occupation.

Sarah Palin’s killing of a moose on her reality TV show recently was abhorrent. But most people support equal if not more brutal cruelty by purchasing meat and other animal products, writes Sharon Troy.

As the cost of landfill sites soars and governments struggle to keep pace with increased levels of rubbish, the time has come for more authorities and individuals to recognise the power of microorganisms to transform our waste to energy, writes Denna Jones.

When Time magazine spotted Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan girl mutilated by her husband during the Taliban regime, it decided to put her picture on its cover and after creating international publicity, flew her into America for plastic surgery to ‘repair’ her. But what might have appeared to be a philanthropic act likely had more self-serving motives and we need to be conscious of this when viewing images of suffering, writes Asiya Islam.

With similarities to its military counterpart, the ‘animal industrial complex’ brings governments, science and corporate agribusiness together to commodify nonhuman animal bodies. The emergence and application of genomics in this alliance is a disturbing attempt to normalise ever more control over farmed animals, writes Dr Richard Twine.

A confidential corporate risk analysis says placing stickers in SUVs is eco-terrorism, writes Will Potter.

As an intern teacher who is a woman of color, Itoro Udofia not only has to hear racist statements from the students, she also hears how white teachers – mostly self-proclaimed liberals – reproduce the same very thoughts and actions they seek to untangle.

The category of the ‘subhuman’ is inherent in global gendered, racialized and economic violence, throwing up questions around the relevance of concepts of ‘human rights’ and ‘human dignity’ for effective theories of justice, policy and social movements. Instead of fighting dehumanization with humanization, a better strategy may be to minimize the human/nonhuman boundary altogether. A new discourse of cultural and legal protections is required to address violence against vulnerable humans in a manner that does not privilege humanity or humans, nor permit a subhuman figure to circulate as the mark of inferior beings on whom the perpetration of violence is legitimate. We need to find an alternative discourse to theorize and mobilize around vulnerabilities for “subhuman” humans, writes Maneesha Deckha.

If we hope to achieve a truly sustainable way of life it is crucial that the loss of vital shelter-making knowledge is recognised and efforts are made to reconnect with the vernacular architecture tradition, writes Peter Cowman, BArch.