While he celebrates India’s Supreme Court ruling on a cancer drug patent, Nick Harvey warns the war for affordable medicines is not over.
While he celebrates India’s Supreme Court ruling on a cancer drug patent, Nick Harvey warns the war for affordable medicines is not over.
Nick Harvey tried to debunk myths on migrants and the NHS on a London radio station, but was shouted down and left wondering why.
Nick Harvey from Doctors of the World writes of the daily fear and violence faced by people caught up in the conflict.
Legal outcomes could ‘open the floodgates’ for companies to challenge generic drug production, keeping prices high, explains Nick Harvey.
A former Israeli military programmer, fed up with Israel’s human rights violations in Palestine, is trying to renounce his Israeli nationality, reports Nick Harvey.
The UN Earth summit will take place June 20-22. Here’s introducing some of the worst environmental truth spinners trying to hijack the agenda.
Nick Harvey reports on a campaign to expose sportswear firms who exploit women workers while boasting Olympic values.
Is a Western approach the best way to engage with the mental health issues of other cultures? Nick Harvey visits Burmese refugees in Thailand to find out.
Environmental activists are furious as a report published this week gives the green light for energy companies to drill for gas across the UK.
Nick Harvey and Julien Tremblin look at the plight of Tuareg refugees caught in the crossfire of a conflict that’s as devastating as it is complex.
Uproar as 21-year-old student, who suffered severe head injuries at the 2010 anti-fees protests, is hauled into court on violent conduct charges.
On the International Day Against Police Brutality, Nick Harvey looks back on a busy year for out-of-control officers.
Barclays gets the recognition it deserves for making millions from speculating on food prices.
More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the cash? Nick Harvey investigates.
It’s 50 years since West Papua first won independence, only for Indonesia to cruelly snatch it away. Nick Harvey reports on the tensions in the region.
On World AIDS Day, a stark reminder of how Big Pharma drug patents deny HIV treatment to the developing world.
Independence leader Benny Wenda has been named on an Interpol wanted list in a move viewed by many as politically motivated.
The UN estimates there will be seven billion of us on this planet by the end of October. But talk of a ‘population explosion’ is alarmist, says Nick Harvey
A migrant is up to five times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia in the UK than a white British person. On World Mental Health Day, Nick Harvey argues that racial discrimination is to blame.
Nick Harvey reports on the movement against the destructive hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ sites springing up across the UK.
Fed up with near-zero democracy and rampant corruption, thousands have taken to the streets of Swaziland this week to call for change, reports Nick Harvey.
Tuesday 2 August marked the 48th anniversary of the West Papuan struggle for independence from Indonesia. Now is the time for their voices to be heard, says Nick Harvey.
Nick Harvey reports on the position of the Hmong – both inside Laos and the bleak refugee camps of Thailand.
It is half a century since the Dalai Lama and thousands of other Tibetans were forced into exile by the Chinese occupation. Nick Harvey talks to exiles young and old about their hopes for their country.
Women who love women still leads to suicide pacts in India, often burning themselves to death. But in the wake of a groundbreaking film, lesbians are asserting themselves more – and seeing some encouraging signs of change, as Nick Harvey reports.
Nick Harvey explains the background on gay rights – and then talks to lesbian activists about a cause that is beginning to catch fire.

Nick Harvey spent 2007 and 2008 hitch-hiking from Europe to Asia, writing along the way, and becoming a leading voice on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex) issues in India. Since then he’s published dozens of articles – mainly for New Internationalist – on both well-known and obscure international human rights issues from the plight of Tuaregs in Mali to the fight for democracy in Swaziland. As well as freelancing as a journalist, he’s currently the communications lead for the health charity Doctors of the World (Médecins du Monde) UK.
Anti-Muslim fervour is rife – yet is being ignored by the authorities, says Lewis Garland.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
‘The Wicked Witch is dead’ but although he’s celebrating, Alan Hughes urges us to fight on against everything she stood for.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.