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• In the Zambian city of Kabwe, children suffer severe health effects due to lead poisoning because of extreme pollution from the toxic lead waste of a former mine.
• Zambia’s government is facilitating new hazardous lead and zinc mining and processing of the toxic waste, posing major additional health risks to children.
• The Zambian government should suspend operations, revoke licenses of companies involved in the hazardous activities, and embark on a full clean-up of Kabwe’s lead waste.

Pick up a packet of tea from any major brand at the supermarket and you'll likely see labels promising consumers the tea inside is ethically sourced.

Certification schemes like Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade are meant to ensure tea workers are paid a minimum wage, have safe working and living conditions and can access basic necessities like clean drinking water on tea estates.

But do they?

A Foreign Correspondent investigation in Sri Lanka has found several certified estates on the supplier lists of the world's biggest brands were failing to live up to these ethical promises.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered an olive branch to his US counterpart Donald Trump, describing their fiery Oval Office meeting last week as "regrettable".

Tighter sanctions that undercut Russian countermeasures can slash Kremlin revenues by 20% annually

Hidden records reveal a widespread pattern of lax enforcement of laws and regulations intended to protect the environment and communities

Operation Lone Star has unleashed a windfall for private contractors cashing in on a four-year-long emergency shopping spree.

In short:

More than half of Australian companies have improved their gender pay gap, compared to last year. But for every $1 a man earns, women, on average, still only earn 78 cents.

The gender pay gap is not about "equal pay for equal work", but aims to quantify the difference between the average earnings of women and men in the workforce.

What's next?

Anyone can view the gender pay gaps at companies that employ more than 5 million Australian workers, and their plans to reduce the gap.

From airlines to banks, fixing Canada’s competition problem starts with smarter domestic reforms.

The chancellor of the University of Helsinki told a newspaper last month that US authorities had pressured the university to remove certain terms from its press release about Fulbright scholarships.