The World Today: December & January 2021/22: How to close the inequality gap

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Responses to the Covid pandemic have exposed growing global inequality in stark terms. Ian Goldin looks at ways to bridge the chasm

Pledges of ‘vaccines for everyone’ may have gone unfulfilled but the case for universal health reforms is gaining ground, writes Rob Yates

The human rights campaigner on why she called for a boycott of the Nicaraguan election and why the international community needs to do more

Alexander Rondos warns that the ongoing conflict spells turmoil for the Horn of Africa

With midterm elections only a year away, the US president needs to follow through, argues Daniel Strieff

In the first instalment of a new column, Yu Jie looks at what the next 12 months hold in store for China

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How more equitable rugby union funding could boost the region

A critique of Liz Truss’s foreign policy ambitions through the lens of media freedoms

Albab Tesfaye and Chaan Tutlam outline report findings

Aanu Adeoye on a pan-African newspaper that is putting the truth out there

Rachel Briggs on how Britain can act to end the plight of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe

Sneakers are beloved the world over but their manufacture harms the environment. Michela Gariboldi on ways to reduce their carbon footprint

Renee Bracey Sherman on how the US political process has been hijacked

The mother of the imprisoned Egyptian activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, on his book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated

The pandemic is still keeping Vietnam out of reach for tourists, writes a frustrated Nga Pham

December 6, 1921: A century after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Brexit has altered the balance, writes Brigid Laffan

Sujit Sivasundaram revisits the age of the British Empire through the eyes of the indigenous people of the Pacific and Indian oceans

Tin Hinane El Kadi critiques an alarmist account of Beijing’s internet ambitions

Here are this year’s winners of the Courage in Photojournalism Award, presented by the International Women’s Media Foundation

Catherine Fieschi argues that solidarity has passed its Covid test

Bali to help steer post-Covid recovery

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