Juan Rodriguez wants to raise $50,000 to bring affordable light to the poor. Anna Bevan explains.

Vyvian Raoul calls for change in England and Wales to avoid more deaths like that of a homeless man outside an empty Kent bungalow.

Although questions remain, including the possibility of a second-round run-off, Henry Owino says tension has lifted, thanks to a broadly peaceful vote.

Sokari Ekine meets a community worker helping poor women help themselves.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality by Danny Dorling shortlisted for The Bread and Roses Award 2013.

A violent mugging in Montevideo brings New Internationalist editor Vanessa Baird face to face with the greater crime of health inequality.

Palestinian Mohammad Saba’aneh is being held without charge by the Israel Defense Forces.

‘How can a country be liberated when half its population is not?’ asks an online women’s campaign group. Noreen Sadik reports.

Mari Marcel Thekaekara on the potential of prohibition in India where women have burnt down liquor shops over alcoholism’s devastation.

David Ransom celebrates the life of a president with a fondness for Liberation heroes, who used oil wealth to boost ordinary Venezuelans’ quality of life.

Magnus Taylor reports from Nairobi on the long wait for results in the presidential election.