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Ethnicity: what the census doesn't tell us

17 Dec 2012 3 minute read

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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 more than 11 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 more than 11 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 almost 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 almost 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 15 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 16 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 more than 16 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 16 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 18 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 more than 23 years old.

Forest Freedom

new internationalist
issue 318 - November...

5 Nov 1999 10 minute read

This article is more than 23 years old.

Power Of Protest

new internationalist
issue 318 - November...

1 Apr 1999 5 minute read

This article is almost 24 years old.

The stolen ones

The cries of thousands of Aboriginal Australians who were kidnapped by the state have been stifled. Now *Tjalaminu Mia* tells...

1 Apr 1999 4 minute read

This article is almost 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...

1 Apr 1999 1 minute read

This article is almost 24 years old.

White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society

Pakistanis in the British midlands, North Africans in urban France, Indo-Chinese in suburban Australia: all have felt the...

1 Mar 1999 11 minute read

This article is almost 24 years old.

Calvin Klein and the tea pickers

From Gudalur to Gloucester, some unusual alliances are being forged, reports *Mari Marcel Thekaekara*.

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