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Elder Taharakau Stewart (in the middle with cane), is joined by other Māori people during a ceremony in Berlin, Germany on 29 April 2019. The event marked the handing back of the remains of ancestors which had been held as part of Charité – Berlin University of Medicine’s former anthropology collections. JÖRG CARSTENSEN/DPA/ALAMY

2 May 2023 15 minute read

Returning Indigenous ancestors home to New Zealand/Aotearoa

For centuries, museums have held human remains as artefacts. Hana Pera Aoake explored what can be learned...

21 Mar 2023 3 minute read

Africa is beginning to hold social media companies to account

A court case shows the continent’s demand for social media companies to be accountable for their impact offline, columnist...

A woman sits at a table looking at a mobile phone.

13 Mar 2023 2 minute read

Finally, equal abortion rights for India’s unmarried women

The taboo around sex outside of marriage means it can be hard to access safe pregnancy termination. But a recent court ruling...

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...

23 Feb 2023 1 minute read

Before Iran, the Kurdish feminist revolution

Rahila Gupta examines the precursor to Iran’s ‘first feminist revolution in the world’: a Kurdish feminist...

13 Feb 2023 5 minute read

On your watch

Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in...

Around 700 families were evicted from the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, India in November 2017, following an order of the Guwahati High Court. ZUMA PRESS /ALAMY

25 Nov 2022 4 minute read

For whose protection?

A target to turn 30 per cent of the world’s land into protected areas for nature by 2030 is set to be agreed by world...

A group of women are pictured tending to vegetables in Koyli Alpha, Senegal, in 2019. They were taking part in the Great Green Wall project which hopes to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land across the African continent by 2030. Simon Townsley/Panos

23 Oct 2022 1 minute read

Our right to the land

It brings power and wealth to whoever holds it, but land should be treated as a public good, argues Amy Hall...

Illustration shows a couple with a baby gazing on to a green pastured horizon with birds gathering in the air. Image created by Julie Flett for We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp, published by Orca Book Publishers

23 Oct 2022 7 minute read

Land back

Riley Yesno explores some of the ways the Indigenous-led movement is redistributing land and wealth in...

9 Oct 2022 3 minute read

What if…we liberated sex education?

Husna Ara plots the path to shame-free learning.

An illustration by Syrian artist Haya Halaw depicts a woman refugee holding a minature house on fire.

10 Nov 2022 6 minute read

‘They’ve never experienced being a refugee’

Who is better placed to cover forced migration than refugees themselves? Bairbre Flood reports on the...

Dave Bangs speaks to a crowd of ‘mass trespassers’.

27 Sep 2022 5 minute read

‘No one goes there, not even dog walkers’

Hundreds of people take part in a ‘mass trespass’ to save an ancient woodland under threat from the development of a Center...

Satellite view of Lake Mead, US, taken on 19 July 2022 during a drought. It shows how little water there is and dry ground around it.

16 Aug 2022 3 minute read

Climate change? It’s everyone’s problem

It’s naive to assume that rich countries will escape the impacts of a changing climate, argues Nanjala Nyabola...

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...

A person draped in a blue, green, red and yellow Mapuche flag stands with their back to the camera, looking towards a gas plant in the distance

16 Jun 2022 5 minute read

Standing firm against fracking

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Grace...

6 Jun 2022 5 minute read

The war in Ukraine has hit Africa’s food security

Russia’s invasion has triggered cost rises and staple shortages. Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo examines the crisis...

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