Neal Lawson and Ruth Potts, both campaigners and writers, go head-to-head.
Mexico resists Monsanto corn
Jen Wilton and Liam Barrington-Bush report from Oaxaca on a visit from Indian ‘seed activist’ Vandana Shiva.
Colombia: another death threat as mother fights for justice
Alfamir Castillo’s son and a friend were murdered by the army. As two generals face trial, there are fears for her safety, writes Patrick Kane.
Corporates cashing in on mental-health diagnosis
Some of the experts who put together a popular psychiatry manual have fingers in Big Pharma pies, reports Adam McGibbon.
Cameroon's women call time on breast ironing
The little-known practice with devastating impacts on girls.
Australians Lock the Gate on mining
A movement that began with a call for stronger property rights, could offer radical solutions to the climate crisis, writes Dominic O’Dwyer.
Is Europe becoming more homophobic?
Asks Vanessa Baird as a shocking new survey is published to mark the International Day Against Homophobia.
Magazine
Argument: Can shopping be a form of activism?
- New Internationalist Editorial
- Issue 463
- 23 May 2013
- 0
Cameroon's women call time on breast ironing
Amy Hall reports on a little-known tradition with devastating impacts on girls in African communities.
Facing the forest entrepreneurs
Communities are scrambling to protect their lands from tree plantations multiplying in Mozambique’s northern highlands. Hazel Healy reports.
- Hazel Healy
- Issue 462
- 15 May 2013
- 0
Land Grabs - The Facts
An infographic guide to investors, target lands and crops grown.
- New Internationalist Editorial
- Issue 462
- 13 May 2013
- 0
Introducing... Beppe Grillo
A portrait of Italy’s satirist politician by Richard Swift.
- Richard Swift
- Issue 462
- 9 May 2013
- 1
Democracy only works when we know the truth
Chris Coltrane wants to know the facts about drone attacks.
- Chris Coltrane
- Issue 462
- 7 May 2013
- 0
Blogs
Mexico resists Monsanto corn
Jen Wilton and Liam Barrington-Bush report from Oaxaca on a visit from Indian ‘seed activist’ Vandana Shiva.
- Jen Wilton and Liam Barrington-Bush
- 24 May 2013
- 1
Colombia: another death threat as mother fights for justice
Alfamir Castillo’s son and a friend were murdered by the army. As two generals face trial, there are fears for her safety, writes Patrick Kane.
- Patrick Kane
- 23 May 2013
- 0
Tackling obstetric fistula in Sierra Leone
Regina Bash-Taqi from Health Poverty Action reports on positive steps to tackle the devastating childbirth injury.
- Regina Bash-Taqi
- 23 May 2013
- 1
Australians Lock the Gate on mining
A movement that began with a call for stronger property rights, could offer radical solutions to the climate crisis, writes Dominic O’Dwyer.
- Dominic O'Dwyer
- 22 May 2013
- 3
Corporates cashing in on mental-health diagnosis
Some of the experts who put together a popular psychiatry manual have fingers in Big Pharma pies, reports Adam McGibbon.
- Adam McGibbon
- 21 May 2013
- 4
Haiti’s poor majority pushed to the margins
While commercial interests look to ‘seize opportunity’ in the country, Sokari Ekine has seen an increase in the level of poverty.
- Sokari Ekine
- 20 May 2013
- 0
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