Before the innumerable challenges that come with Venezuelan migration, we don’t need to improvise. We need to learn from countries like Lebanon that have already tried.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has approved a draft of a declaration on the rights of peasants and rural workers. Despite their critical role in the world’s food production, some 80% of this population lives in poverty and hunger.

Ultimately, as consumers, we need to be more conscious about where our food comes from, and demand to know what it underwent before reaching our plates.

Civil society in Yemen failed to respond to the revolutionary energy of 2011. However, in the midst of a civil war and diminishing space for activism, organizations like Mwatana for Human Rights stand firm.

Economic growth alone is not enough to alleviate extreme poverty. Instead, we need creative, targeted alternatives—like unconditional cash transfers and livestock donations.

As inequality deepens, so too should concerns about rural policies and unequal access to land. The decline of redistributive agrarian reforms coupled with growing patterns of land concentration and land-grabbing threaten to exacerbate cycles of inequality in the countryside, in the city, and around the world.

Recent decades have seen social activism turn to law as a battleground for social change. While the rejection in Argentina of a bill to legalize abortion left many feeling cheated, the effects of the campaign, Que Sea Ley (English: Let It Be Law), transcended purely legal change.