My friend, Kofi, is a postman. He told me he’s working harder now, because there are more parcels to be delivered, since people stuck at home are ordering more online to cope. Steve Latham Another friend, working in the online fashion industry, furloughed under the government’s scheme, observes […]
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Mourning Corona
Mental health has become a concern as we face the Coronavirus: including fearful anxiety, anger in supermarkets, and the effects of social isolation. Steve Latham Among health workers, and other essential services, however, stress, rather than inactivity, will be the major psychological problem. But we should also consider […]
Avoiding violence during quarantine
In this global health emergency, vulnerable women, girls and adolescents are caught at the crossroads of isolating to safeguard their health and the danger of being confined with their attacker in this challenging context. Dailyn Ruano Martínez In recent days, UN Women (the United Nations entity dedicated to […]
A book for bibliophiles
If you love Jane Austen and want to form your own club of like-minded devotees, Janine Barchas is someone who has to receive an invitation. In “The lost books of Jane Austen” – oh that there were! – she tracks the history of the novels’ publications over the course of […]
Disinformation and lies escalate fear in Bolivia
The information that characterises the official Bolivian discourse is contradictory, false, perhaps hidden, even in the context of Covid-19, to the point of becoming an infodemic. Claudia Espinoza This deepens the anguish of a society in a permanent state of “emergency” since the coup d’état carried out on […]
















