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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...

Britain moves a step closer to combating caste

26 Apr 2013 3 minute read

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Britain moves a step closer to combating caste

Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection...

Stop persecution in Bangladesh and Pakistan

18 Mar 2013 3 minute read

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Stop persecution in Bangladesh and Pakistan

While minority rights are eroded, Pakistan enjoys impunity as a ‘strategic ally’ of the US, writes Mari Marcel...

Ethnicity: what the census doesn't tell us

17 Dec 2012 3 minute read

This article is almost 11 years old.

Ethnicity: what the census doesn't tell us

Population surveys are as much about social experience as identity. Amy Hall on what’s between the tick boxes...

1 Jan 2012 2 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Israel evicts Bedouin villagers

More than 30,000 Bedouin, which the Israeli government call 'squatters', face eviction to make way for settlements, reports...

18 Nov 2011 4 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Introducing the Palestinian Freedom Riders

On 15 November, six Palestinian activists challenged Israeli ‘apartheid’ policies by boarding a segregated bus...and were...

2 May 2009 12 minute read

This article is more than 14 years old.

Into the vortex of identity

With Dinyar Godrej, whose personal journey as an immigrant reveals some of the faultlines of multiculturalism...

2 Mar 2009 1 minute read

This article is more than 14 years old.

Victor victorious

Gay rights activists celebrated victory in the most unlikely of settings in late 2008, when a Kampala court ruled...

3 Sep 2007 7 minute read

This article is more than 16 years old.

Free Binayak Sen!

The arrest of a doctor who works with poor communities in central India, on trumped-up charges of associating with ‘terrorist...

20 Feb 2007 4 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

No sanctuary

In 1996, in the midst of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, my cousin Saboor, a fresh-faced and ambitious 20-year-...

6 Dec 2006 10 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

To transform pain to power

Dalit women speak out against human rights abuses and discrimination at an international conference in The Hague, Netherlands...

2 Jul 2006 11 minute read

This article is more than 17 years old.

Forest fever

It's 2010. Brazilian activists *Marcelo Calazans* and *Renata Valentim* imagine what the future might look like if the carbon...

A look at the sky from the bottom of the well

2 Sep 2004 5 minute read

This article is more than 19 years old.

A look at the sky from the bottom of the well

Poetry, prose and FACTS from Falun Dafa, Tibet and Gay China.

5 Nov 1999 8 minute read

This article is almost 24 years old.

Forest Freedom

new internationalist
issue 318 - November...

5 Nov 1999 10 minute read

This article is almost 24 years old.

Power Of Protest

new internationalist
issue 318 - November...

1 Apr 1999 4 minute read

This article is more than 24 years old.

Zenilda da Silva Vilacio

*Janet Smith* visits a determined indigenous woman fighting for the rights of women and of her people in the Brazilian Amazon...

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