The new daughters of Africa
With the release of New Daughters of Africa, editor Margaret Busby explains why the collection – 25 years after Daughters of Africa was published – could not have come at a better time and introduces three…
The dragon and the bear on the roof of the world
Cash-strapped but strategically important, Tajikistan is undergoing rapid change with its future increasingly being shaped by a power play between China and Russia. Klas Lundström reports.
What if…a socialist became president of the USA?
Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.
Letter from Marabá: touched by the future
Dan Baron Cohen discovers unexpected solidarity with the Amazon in a country mired in violence and despair.
Xinjiang: living in a ghost world
Yohann Koshy speaks to anthropologist Darren Byler to find out what is going on in China’s predominantly Uyghur northwest province.
New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next
Chris Brazier looks back over a career as co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.
My ass and the oceans
Let down at every turn, Ally Bruener struggles to balance her own vital needs with her eco-warrior credentials.
Living well
Richard Swift on why we need to stop chasing the dream of full employment and focus on what really matters instead.
Feel the fear and carry on
In Iraq a growing number of women are now doing the dangerous work of removing landmines – previously a male preserve. Adrian Margaret Brune reports.
Behrouz Boochani: Australia is introducing a ‘new kind of fascism’
New Internationalist interviews Behrouz Boochani, the award-winning, Kurdish-Iranian writer who has been imprisoned on Manus Island Prison since 2013.
No place for children
Not even young lives have been spared by the junta. Maung Moe reports on a day of shame.
How British aid abandoned the girls of South Sudan
UK funding must urgently be restored to those in desperate need, says educator Rod Hicks.
Paper promises: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70
Why is it so easy for governments to ignore this much-feted document? TJ Coles analyzes the British case.
Could Mexico’s election change everything?
The Latin American nation goes to the polls 1 July to elect a new president. Tamara Pearson reports.
To protect life
Covid-19 has shown us that swift action on global health is possible, even if it still falls short. What could we achieve, asks Amy Hall, if we took an urgent approach to air pollution, another widespread killer?
How we halt Big Oil's climate-wrecking business
We cannot let the fossil fuel industry block urgently needed climate action. Nick Dowson lays out a path to change.
Why black matters
Rahila Gupta examines the roots of, and argues the case for, ‘political blackness’.
