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5 January 2003

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issue 353 - Jan/Feb 2003

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The bleak future of British foreign aid

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Progress and its discontents

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Beyond Davos: Fighting inequality on the frontline

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Bangkok street sellers live to fry another day

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Paper promises: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70

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Botswana: losing its sparkle?

Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and inequality.

‘Catastrophic’ explosion risk on Diego Garcia

Revealed: Ships at the controversial naval base are crammed dangerously close. Katie McQue reports.

Why we need Lush’s Spycop campaign

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The case for public ownership

After decades of neglect, the mood is turning. Dinyar Godrej on the fightback against privatization.

This land is my land

Ian Neubauer reports from Bougainville, where rebels chased away a mining company 30 years ago. Now the company is planning its...

The Women Who Stopped the Nuclear Deal

Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid won the Goldman Environmental Prize for stopping a secret nuclear deal with Russia. Veronique...

Fleeing Myanmar

Parsa Sanjana Sajid speaks to Rohingya refugees trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

Brutal forced deportations, globalization and human rights

The Stansted 15 have exposed the hypocrisy of Britain, Ann Pettifor argues.

Banning Russia Today would solve nothing

This will give Putin another excuse for a media crackdown, argues Madeline Roache.

Paraguay: An unequal land

Paraguay’s land activists are under attack. Toby Hill profiles the country’s precarious democracy.

How can famines be ended?

To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal.

Mozambique plantation leaves no land or jobs for villagers

Promised plantation jobs, five years later these Mozambicans are still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.

Black Lives - THE FACTS

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Latin American governments should serve the people

Human rights activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel highlights the failure of democracy in Argentina, Brazil and across the region.

Indonesia cracks down on organized labour

Unions face backlash after years of minimum wage increases. Fahmi Panimbang writes.

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‘Impossible’ for Lula to get fair trial, say lawyers. Vanessa Baird reports.

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You will agree: escalating repression

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How Turkey’s citizens lost their rights

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A look at Bahrain today

Despite the atrocious human rights situation in the country, the West finds much to celebrate about Bahrain. Zoe Holman reports.

Zimbabwe’s coup that isn’t a coup

With tanks on the streets and rumours in newspapers, Nhau Mangirazi reports from Zimbabwe.

Jailed Nubian activist dies in custody

In the wake of the tragic loss, Mohammed Elnaiem looks back at years of resistance.

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Respite for Gazans could not come too soon. Noreen Sadik reports on the ongoing power crisis.

Monbiot: ‘we need that new political narrative’

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