Patents: New treaty against biopiracy agreed at UN

Representatives of Indigenous peoples celebrated on Friday May 24 at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, following the agreement of a treaty against the pillaging of their traditional knowledge and genetic resources, like those from medicinal plants. The new treaty,…

An Egyptian Photographer’s Portraits of a Changing Sinai

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2012, the Egyptian photographer Rehab Eldalil began photographing the Bedouin Jebeleya tribe, whose ancestors have lived in the foothills of Mt. Sinai, in Egypt, for more than a thousand years.…