Issue 414 of New Internationalist
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August 2008
August 2008
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We need to talk about... toilets
2008 is the International Year of Sanitation. Or, asks *Maggie Black*, is it the International Year of Silence and Embarrassment?
River Bleeds Black
Bangladeshi photographer *Shehzad Noorani* exposes the damage done to the Buriganga River.
Dignity and the decent facility
Women desperately want toilets – but not as a health aid. *Libby Plumb* reports.
Mandela’s no tourist
Nelson Mandela gets a birthday present from the US, being repealed from the Terror Watch List!
A lifetime in muck
Unbelievably, people still exist whose task in life is shovelling shit, as *Mari Marcel Thekaekara* explains.
Tortured for 'refusing to kill'
A conscientious objector from Istanbul was beaten with sticks until he passed out
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A world to win
The cost of greed crisis
Take back the land
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Rivers of life
How we stop Big Oil
Jailbreak: reimagining justice
Romani lives matter
Shifting horizons: the future of work
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