Covid-19
Wealth safari
Prices getting you down? Spare a thought for the rich, says Vanessa Baird – those booming profits won’t count themselves.
‘My friend thinks Covid-19 is a hoax. What should I do?’
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle
The vice tightens
The image-obsessed Indian government is intent on shutting down dissent. Rishika Pardikar examines ploys in use.
Cuba’s crossroads
The Castros are no longer in charge. Will Miguel Díaz-Canel, their hand-picked successor, wield a new broom of change? Wayne Ellwood weighs up the island’s options.
Suspending pandemic reality
Exasperated at politicians, Nanjala Nyabola reflects on the disastrous consequences of poor leadership in a pandemic.
The oxygen gap
Nilanjana Bhowmick on oxygen inequity and the price paid by her country’s citizens.
Vaccine hopes and fears
The complications of the vaccine rollout in the Philippines are myriad, Iris Gonzales finds.
A silver lining
Immunization expert Christopher Morgan is optimistic that the great push for Covid-19 vaccines will produce other global health benefits. He talks to Amy Hall.
The pandemic has worsened Brazil’s hunger crisis
A recent study suggests that as many as six in ten Brazilians are struggling to put food on the table, reports Beatriz Miranda.
Scientific internationalism
It is thanks to scientists collaborating across borders that vaccines against Covid-19 have been developed so fast, argues Rajni George.
The nuts and bolts
Pay attention. Thomas Abraham gives a quick lesson on how the Covid-19 vaccines work.
How to end vaccine apartheid
Rich nations vaccinate a citizen every second while the majority of the poorest nations are yet to give a single dose. How can we end vaccine apartheid? Experts and campaigners weigh in at a New Internationalist live event.
Dreams of magic bullets
Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.
The Gates factor
Nick Dowson investigates the oversized influence of Bill Gates on the global response to the pandemic
Vaccine equality: who gets it?
Heidi Chow on how to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for all, equitably and at scale.
The UK pursued vaccine nationalism – now it’s paying the price
Having blocked proposals from Global South countries to suspend intellectual property on Covid-19 vaccines, the UK is now on the receiving end of global vaccine politics, writes Nick Dearden.
Saving the Sundarbans
Nilanjana Bhowmick on the double whammy of natural disaster and Covid-19 that has brought a vulnerable ecosystem to the brink.
‘You’ve done nothing!’
Stephanie Boyd reports from the Peruvian Amazon on the fight to get adequate healthcare that respects indigenous tradition.
Adding pain to the pandemic
Nilanjana Bhowmick on the recent legislation steamrolled through parliament that has disadvantaged working people and gripped India’s farmers in protest.
The hidden debt of care
It’s essential work yet it is undervalued across the world. Amy Hall makes the case for putting care front and centre.
Chile’s social uprising: One year on
Carole Concha Bell speaks to defiant protesters who have been met with violence and intimidation ahead of Chile’s historic plebiscite to overturn Pincohet’s constitution.
Safeguarding without snooping
Nick Dowson explores options for monitoring people in the interest of public health while respecting their privacy.
A human story
Economies in a tailspin will need a different vision to steady them, believes Dinyar Godrej.
View from Africa
Abandoned by the state, self-organized health workers in Kenya are absorbing the brunt of the pandemic, writes Nanjala Nyabola.
Doctors priced out
Joylean M Baro on how Zimbabwean doctors on the frontlines of Covid-19 care have been priced out of treatment.
Let the light in
Carole Concha Bell on how projectionists have been censored for criticizing the Chilean government’s pandemic response.
5 polluters making the pandemic pay
Amy Hall gives a rundown of some of the companies and industries who have ramped up their ruinous activities during Covid-19.
View from India
Schoolchildren are falling through the digital divide, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.
In Brazil, conspiracies are for professionals
QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.
Can workers reset the system?
Tansy Hoskins on how garment makers could be better protected in future.
Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?
The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.
To fight Covid-19, Africa must reclaim its economic sovereignty
A global coalition of economists calls for a radical shift in Africa’s economic policy, one rooted in sovereignty and sustainability.
Beyond borders
A global pandemic demands we think in terms of global health, not vaccine nationalism, argues Dinyar Godrej.
Lessons from the pandemic
How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.
In times of Covid-19, black people die twice in Brazil
Leonardo Sakamoto reflects on the police killing of João Pedro Matos Pinto, a 14-year-old black boy, and one of many Brazilian George Floyds.
A green recovery
Jake Woodier on the climate activists challenging corporate bailouts for the world’s polluters