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16 Oct 2015 1 minute read

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The transgender revolution

In this video, New Internationalist co-editor Vanessa Baird introduces our October magazine...

6 Oct 2015 1 minute read

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Jeremy Corbyn 2008: ‘the twilight existence of migrant life’

The new Labour Party leader made prescient observations about the crisis of migration that ring true today.

22 May 2015 4 minute read

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The Rojava experiment

Tony McKenna wonders at the democratic struggles in West Kurdistan, all set against a backdrop of war.

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...

15 Apr 2015 4 minute read

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Kashmir to acquire ‘Israel-style settlements’

Rather than Pandit ‘ghettos’, what we need is proper integration, argues Uzma Falak.

26 Feb 2015 5 minute read

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Kurdish boys killed as tensions rise in Cizre

Sophie Cousins reports on the Turkish town that ‘could be the next Kobane’.

10 Jul 2014 3 minute read

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Australia’s government is gutting progressive legislation

Adam Long despairs at the increasingly extremist bent of the Tony Abbott administration and its open disdain...

9 Jun 2014 2 minute read

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Sign language is our rightful mother tongue

Jill Jones explains why signing is particularly vulnerable to dying out – and why this basic human right must...

1 May 2014 2 minute read

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Roma discrimination rife

Slovakia isolates this persecuted population from the rest of society by building walls and segregating schools, says ...

16 Apr 2014 3 minute read

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Happy Thingyan Water Festival for Rohingyas? Like hell

One Western aid worker is frustrated and sickened by what’s going on in Burma.

17 Mar 2014 3 minute read

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Are Western evangelists responsible for Uganda's homophobia?

Patience Akumu considers what impact preaching hate has had on the country's citizens and politicians.

1 Jan 2014 2 minute read

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Mauritania, slavery hotspot

Katie Harris explains why this desert nation has the world's highest rates of slavery and outlines moves for...

1 Dec 2013 2 minute read

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Crude triumphalism in Sri Lanka

On the eve of the Commonwealth summit in Colombo, Lewis Garland reports on the insidious disempowerment of...

28 Oct 2013 4 minute read

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Who are the Roma people?

To counter some of the recent accusatory news coverage, Philip Brown shares a few facts.

3 Sep 2013 3 minute read

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Some rapes are more newsworthy than others in India

A handful of cases attract international attention yet crimes against Dalit women go unreported, says Mari Marcel...

Does multiculturalism have a future in Britain?

14 May 2013 3 minute read

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Does multiculturalism have a future in Britain?

Inspired by the rightward lurch of British politics, The Prisma newspaper set up a debate to try to answer this...

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