Issue 474 of New Internationalist
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July-August 2014
Feminism
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Autocracy or brave solution? Rwanda country profile
Ben Shepherd compares two starkly contrasting visions of Rwanda 20 years after the genocide.
Women on the edge of time
Hannah Pool mediates an intergenerational conversation between India's Kamla Bhasin and London's Lilinaz Evans.
Mitts off my muff
Hazel Healy interviews Nimko Ali, an activist revitalizing the fight against female genital mutilation.
Tinariwen's desert blues
Eyadou Ag Leche tells Graeme Green about his hopes for an autonomous Tuareg territory.
Can plastic surgery be liberating?
Feminist blogger Danielle Leigh and filmmaker and former model Susan Hess Logeais go head to head.
Is there a feminist spring?
Women’s rights has got its mojo back – and not a minute too soon. Hazel Healy takes stock of the challenges ahead.
Social change is written in the streets
Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed into law in the US. Movements not governments propel change, believes Mark Engler...
Cupcakes can fuck off
Our new columnist Kate Smurthwaite tires of weird infantilizing representations of women.
Why are Haitians still eating mud cakes?
Four years after the earthquake, Haiti remains a country in crisis. Brian Fitzpatrick and Michael Norby report.
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