The Covered Market in Oxford is simultaneously cheap shoe shop gaudy, and hipsterific. I’m swathed in a gamey fug of meat smells, contained by the low ceiling. Each turn around a corner brings me a fresh sight of hanging flesh; that is, if I’m lucky enough not to to be …
The kids who clean shoes and sell cigarettes on Bolivia’s streets are not your typical political lobbyists. Yet after the child workers set up their own trade union and took to the streets to campaign for their “right to work”, Bolivia has become the first country to allow children as …