Making Waves
Interview with Martha Lucía Micher Camarena
Martha Lucía Micher Camarena has been battling to defend women’s rights in Mexico for decades – and last year she achieved two landmark victories.
Youssou N'Dour
Senegal’s beacon of good music and positive energy Youssou N’Dour talks to Ed Stocker
Teófilo Acuña
Colombian activist Teófilo Acuña on the danger of confronting paramilitaries.
Indian Community Welfare Organization
on confronting HIV and AIDS in south India
Interview with Brian McLaren
on the need for Christians to engage with the real world
Interview with Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva, Indian environmentalist extraordinaire, on her new movement challenging supermarkets
Tunisian Association Against AIDS
The work against the odds of activists in the Tunisian Association Against AIDS
Masih Alinejad
How Masih Alinejad is paying the price for confronting Iran’s leaders
Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh
A letter from inside prison by Iranian women’s rights campaigner Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh.
Interview with Sheela Patel
Interview with Indian homeless campaigner Sheela Patel.
Interview with Vandana Gopikumar
Mental illness is still taboo in India, and many women end up shunned and destitute as a result. But Vandana Gopikumar has been pioneering ways of reaching out to them.
Interview with Sharla Musabih as she builds the City of Hope
Battered women of all nationalities in the United Arab Emirates used to have no refuge. But Sharla Musabih has been putting that right.
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ON THE NI SITE
Will Obama bring 1990s food policy to an end?
‘If the transition to Obama is to become the end of an era as well as the end of an error,’ says food and agriculture activist and author Wayne Roberts, then ‘the legacy of Bill Clinton as well as George Bush will need to be overcome.’
Nominees for Most Artful Tax Dodger
New Internationalist’s list of nominees for Most Artful Tax Dodger.
And the New Internationalist Award for Most Artful Tax Dodger goes to...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
City of whispers
Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with Dinyar Godrej.
Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.
I will return...and I will be millions
Are things beginning to look up for the world’s indigenous peoples? Vanessa Baird begins a series of three reports from Bolivia, where the signs look most hopeful – and most precarious.
Lust, caution - hijab
Adventures in the ‘terror’ zone – and how the hijab does not keep you hidden
Israel, Palestine and the Hypocrisies of Power – an interview with Noam Chomsky
Celebrated American intellectual and activist Noam Chomsky provides a devastating insight into what lies behind the Israel-Palestine conflict and some of the obstacles to the viability of a Palestinian state.
The scramble for Africa
Katharine Ainger traces the connections between the Western World’s prosperity and Africa’s misery.
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