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AMY HALL for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org As I’m sure is the case for everyone reading this, a lot has changed at New Internationalist over a very short span of time. We are all now working at home, some of us with young children

Aruna Chandrasekhar is an independent journalist from India, currently based in Oxford, UK. She writes about the environment, justice, energy, rights and climate. Michael Ohioze Simire is an urban planner and award-winning science journalist. He is c

I’m a delighted subscriber and devour each magazine. As I started to read How we make poverty (NI 524) I was further thrilled to see that one of my heroes, John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, had a piece in it. But when I turned

Tables turned The coronavirus pandemic has upended normal life across the world – taking lives, decimating jobs and interrupting education. It has also brought restrictions for the world’s most privileged passport holders: efforts to contain Covid-19

British Conservative MP Amber Rudd cried foul when her invitation to speak at an International Women’s Day event was revoked by the UNWomen society at Oxford University. The decision came after pressure from the student body, who thought it a tad ina

For decades Ireland south of the border has been dominated by a duopoly of centre-right politics alternating the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil parties. The Left republicanism (both Sinn Féin and social democratic) that held the allegiance of the Catholic

On 6 February, Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP) conducted a military-style raid – with low-flying helicopters, snipers, and dogs in tow – on the Wet’suwet’en nation, an indigenous territory which has not signed any treaties with, nor ceded any o

In a landmark ruling, Peruvian judge Andrés Abelino Aguilar rebuffed the criminalization of protest by acquitting 19 human rights defendants and declaring they had ‘no case to answer’. The small farmers and grassroots activists from Cotabambas, Apuri

GERMANY 8 CHINA 4 ITALY, US, UK 3 INDIA 1 Source: indexmundi.com/ CIA World Factbook ■

One southern district of Delhi has been at the epicentre of India’s recent popular uprisings, which erupted with the passing of the anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Its name – Shaheen Bagh – has become synonymous with a 100-day-long, roun

A Sami indigenous community in northern Sweden has won an historic land-rights victory against the government. In the court’s decision to return exclusive control over fishing and hunting rights to Girjas, a village of reindeer herders, it recognized

World Health Organization Air pollution topic nin.tl/WHO Global information and data Pakistan Air Quality Initiative @PakAirQuality Community-driven air quality reports The Rise Up Movement @TheRiseUpMovem1 Climate campaign network to amplify the voi

The road – I call it ‘the race track’ – starts up in the early hours of the morning. I suffer from asthma and I can’t go out at peak times. I’m just coughing and coughing. It’s not acceptable that you can’t be comfortable in your own house. We have t

Newcastle upon Tyne – the northeast’s major city – is one of a number of places that have been challenged by the UK government to reduce air pollution ‘in the shortest possible time’. Efforts to tackle the city’s pollution problem, responsible for ov

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Supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin call the Ukrainian government a ‘fascist junta’. Western supporters consider it a beacon of true democracy within the former Soviet Union. The reality is that paradoxical signs of a country rapidly movin

LEADER: President Volodymyr Zelensky ECONOMY: GNI per capita $2,660 (Belarus $5,670, United States $63,080). Monetary unit: Hryvnia Main exports: Grain, sunflower oil, metals. Once considered the breadbasket of the Soviet Union due to its fertile bla

Europe’s most impoverished country is ruled by a well-heeled oligarchy complete with six billionaires. 100%. Education is a relative bright spot. Kharkiv, home to more than 20 universities, attracts students from across the developing world. 71 years

ANDRÉS: It is clear to me that we are generally guided by our feelings in our day-to-day lives. We become interested in events that evoke powerful emotions within us. Celebrities are often highly skilled at tapping into this natural human tendency. H

In late February, Muslim localities in the Indian capital came under attack from Hindu mobs. Over 40 people died; the damage to property and livelihoods was extensive. As Delhi burned, US president Donald Trump was fraternizing with Indian prime mini

Readers respond to the debate in our last edition (NI 524). Who wouldn’t want a world without prisons? And for that matter, a world without violent crime? And who can argue against the assertion that prison as punishment in the UK and US, for example

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China’s population is now expected to peak in 2030 at 1.44 billion and then drop to below 1.4 billion in 2044, dip below 1.3 billion by 2060, below 1.2 billion just after 2070, below 1.1 billion in 2086, and fall below 1 billion around the year 2104

A colleague recently sent me back an interesting note on a piece we were co-editing. ‘Why doesn’t Africa need to act first?’ they commented in reference to a sentence calling for the international community to take action on an issue of regional impo

by Deb Olin Unferth (And Other Stories, ISBN 9781911508885) andotherstories.org Aged 15, Janey Flores discovers that she has a father, and that he lives in Iowa. She leaves New York to visit him and, to spite her mother (who should have told her the

They smile for the camera – the eager new cohort of female parliamentarians. It’s a standard photo, after a general election. A sign, hopefully, of progress. Over 100 countries in the world have signed up to the goal of gender parity in parliament, a

Q: I’m approaching middle age and hiring cleaners seems now to be increasingly common among my peers. Often they reach this decision after arguments with housemates or partners, which I can’t help but see as a symptom of individualism: instead of sol