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1 Jun 2015 6 minute read

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Interview with Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

Cristiana Moisescu talks to the Bahraini activist, who smiles in the face of adversity.

27 May 2015 4 minute read

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Death in the Mediterranean

Migrant search-and-rescue operations are fraught with danger. Tim Baster and Isabelle Merminod...

21 May 2015 4 minute read

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Genocide by any other name

Media attention has focused on the plight of Rohingya refugees, but their background story is repeatedly ignored, says...

21 May 2015 4 minute read

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Prison store rip-offs

Brandon Astor Jones on getting a raw deal from money-driven jails.

15 May 2015 4 minute read

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‘The tyrant can’t destroy the art’

International artists call for Putin to release Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. Cristiana Moisescu reports...

14 May 2015 4 minute read

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Dilemma of justice under Indian rule in Kashmir

Uzma Falak reports on a problem of powerlessness and the struggle against it.

12 May 2015 4 minute read

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What justice, Mr Gove?

Scrapping the EU human rights act is high on the new Justice Secretary’s list of priorities, but it would be a disaster, says...

8 May 2015 4 minute read

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Sabah’s invisible children

A new Al Jazeera documentary looks at the fate of ‘illegals’ in Sabah, Malaysia. Producer Sarah Yeo recounts...

15 Apr 2015 5 minute read

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Thailand’s midnight flower-sellers

The country’s indigenous groups are the most vulnerable to exploitation, documents Alexia Kalaitzi.

14 Apr 2015 4 minute read

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Tunisians on hunger strike against regime’s secret files

Ben Ali’s legacy still looms large, as Tim Baster and Isabelle Merminod report.

13 Apr 2015 2 minute read

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The right to dream

Uruguayan poet-historian Eduardo Galeano, a long-time contributor to New Internationalist, has died. We...

9 Apr 2015 5 minute read

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Of friend and foe

Sustained by support from the outside, Brandon Astor Jones faces enemies daily within the prison walls.

8 Apr 2015 9 minute read

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Those who couldn’t be there

Thousands attended the World Social Forum in Tunis last month. But, says Giedre Steikunaite, we mustn’t...

2 Apr 2015 3 minute read

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We need a new media to tell the real news

The British press stays silent on many issues. Fanny Malinen says enough is enough.

26 Mar 2015 8 minute read

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Britain’s disbelieved dream of better futures

Unaccompanied children seeking asylum are often accused of lying by those who should be helping them, reports Heenali...

19 Mar 2015 4 minute read

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Prison as a place of healing

Death Row inmate Brandon Astor Jones asks the world to wake up to an enlightened approach to incarceration in...

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