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Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle

27 Feb 2023 3 minute read

‘Is it bad to pay my bills working in an ethically compromised industry?’

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...

Agony uncle: Is the language of oppression being weaponized to the point of meaninglessness?

24 Mar 2023 3 minute read

Is the language of oppression being weaponized against me?

A troubled reader fears they are unfairly being accused of gaslighting, manipulation and abuse by their friends. Agony...

Three initiatives to improve the fashion industry’s ethics. Miki Alcalde

30 Nov 2017 3 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

3 initiatives to improve fashion industry ethics

Safia Minney runs through the tech that could change the fashion industry’s relationship with workers.

10 May 2017 2 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Slave to Fashion Launch

New Internationalist launch Safia Minney's latest book Slave to Fashion, shining a spotlight on...

1 Mar 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Close your heart, open your heart

Closing our heart to suffering suppresses our humanity, writes Ruby Diamonde.

17 Dec 2015 13 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Moving from ‘no borders’ to broaderland for the borderless

Farzana Khan makes the case for a new way of being open.

10 Oct 2014 3 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Twin concerns in commercial surrogacy

We need better laws to protect both sides in the rent-a-womb industry, argues Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

6 May 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

I don’t want to play God – even when it comes to rapists and child killers

A botched execution in the US gets Mari Marcel Thekaekara thinking about the clamour for capital punishment...

1 Apr 2014 2 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Blowing the whistle: could you? Would you?

Lydia James asks if exposing wrongdoing is more important than keeping secrets.

1 Apr 2014 12 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Don't shoot the messenger!

Admired by the public, reviled by those in power, whistleblowers are on the frontline of democracy. But need they be martyrs...

1 Apr 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Brave Father Musala

The cleric who exposed sex abuse in Uganda’s Catholic Church talks to Patience Akumu.

1 Apr 2014 5 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Cheap drugs and the millionaire whistleblower

Sandhya Srinivasan writes from India on the curious tale of Dinesh Thakur and the generics maker Ranbaxy.

19 Mar 2014 2 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Could you be a whistleblower?

It’s not for the fainthearted.

1 Apr 2012 9 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions

Microsoft's former CEO has made massive donations to global health programmes but an investigation by Andrew Bowman...

1 Mar 2012 7 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Should assisted suicide be legalized?

Right-to-die campaigner Debbie Purdy and palliative medicine professor Ilora Finlay go head-to-head - read their arguments and...

Norway snatches Indian children from their parents

23 Jan 2012 3 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Norway snatches Indian children from their parents

Two young Indian children have been taken into care in Norway because their mother fed them with her fingers. Mari...

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