Special features

Jonathan Glennie takes on both the aid optimists and the pessimists.

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Nick Harvey reports on the position of the Hmong – both inside Laos and the bleak refugee camps of Thailand.

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Teashop gossip and the ‘generous’ Generals: Burma is again in the international spotlight following the extension of Aung San Suu Kyi’s home detention. Alex Lewis reports.

Malalai Joya was one of the first women to be elected to Afghanistan’s parliament. In the run-up to the 20 August elections, Joya speaks openly to journalist Lucinda Dunn.

Why are we all being criminalized? From media reports you’d think we were the most educationally-backward, pissed, pregnant, clap-ridden nation of crooks and delinquents in Europe.

In the strife-torn valley of India-controlled Kashmir, the decades-long conflict continues to take its toll, especially on its young. Dilnaz Boga has met some of them.

Yes, according to the latest Happy Planet Index. Rachel Godfrey Wood considers the evidence.

Wind power workers are blowing up a storm, discovers Danny Chivers.

Chris Richards goes cold turkey in her umpteenth attempt to do without her car – and fumes about the structure of modern life that makes the task so hard.

Jess Worth talks about the NI magazine on the Arctic with Climate Radio.

Leah Williams recently visited a refugee camp in Lebanon, where she met Palestinians still waiting to return to a homeland many of them have never seen.