Issue 531 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
May-June 2021
Vaccine equality
Who gets it? Covid-19 vaccines are the world’s great hope but not everyone has the same access to jabs. Vaccine nationalism, corporate power and wealth inequality are a few of the things standing in the way. This Big Story makes the internationalist case for fair, global access to vaccination.
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Vaccine equality: who gets it?
Heidi Chow on how to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for all, equitably and at scale.
The nuts and bolts
Pay attention. Thomas Abraham gives a quick lesson on how the Covid-19 vaccines work.
A history of vaccines
It’s been a long – and, at times, disgusting – story. Swagata Yadavar begins in 1000 CE.
The Gates factor
Nick Dowson investigates the oversized influence of Bill Gates on the global response to the pandemic
Scientific internationalism
It is thanks to scientists collaborating across borders that vaccines against Covid-19 have been developed so fast, argues ...
A silver lining
Immunization expert Christopher Morgan is optimistic that the great push for Covid-19 vaccines will produce other global health...
Cresting the wave
In Mexico, a new generation of young indigenous women are using art to fight racism and celebrate their native identity....
When KFC came to Kenya
As Big Food spreads throughout the Global South using the tobacco playbook, Kabugi Mbae investigates the rise in obesity – and ...
Beaten back
The vicious game of hounding asylum-seekers in Europe continues in defiance of international law, Katie Dancey-Downs reports.
Fighting dispossession
Citizens’ groups are resisting gentrification, evictions and housing inequality in urban South Africa in a variety of creative...
Let the people protect the forests
Want to restore and protect the world's forests? Then uphold the rights of the people who live in them, says Danny Chivers.
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