Issue 446 of New Internationalist

October 2011

Nature's defenders

Included in this issue

Human rights lawyer Errol Mendes and aid campaigner Jonathan Glennie go head-to-head - read their arguments and join the debate.

Humanist Andrew Copson and feminist Catholic theologian Tina Beattie go head-to-head - read their arguments and join the debate.

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...

Gemma Galdon gives a quick introduction to the Spanish movement that sparked a worldwide revolt against the global financial...

Love can be tough amid the boredom and despair of a city slum, writes Maria Golia.

Feature films can tell us much about the cultural background to recent events in North Africa and the Middle East. Malcolm Lewis...

Around 2.3 million US citizens are behind bars - a number that dwarfs any other country, reports Mark Engler.

The scale of indigenous-led protests against mining in southern Peru took most by surprise. Vanessa Baird on what led to such...

Is it the US government? Is it Al Shabab? Is it the UN? Sally Healy argues it is the result of a collective failure.

An estimated 73 million sharks are slaughtered every year for their fins, with 110 species now facing extinction, reports Claire...

Undercover journalist Daniel Wiggins gives an inside view on Syria's protest movements.

A profile of Africa's smallest and most densely populated country.