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Red dresses hang alongside the dream catchers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. The garment has been used as a symbol to raise awareness of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirits. JACKIE DIVES

28 Sep 2023 9 minute read

Tackling Canada’s opioid crisis

Karin Goodwin reports from Vancouver on how reconnecting with their Indigenous culture is helping women...

Letter from Shapajilla. ILLUSTRATION: SARAH JOHN

17 Sep 2023 3 minute read

Letter from Shapajilla: The Storyteller

Stephanie Boyd reports from an Amazonian village where traditional ways of life are changing with modern...

Women, walking with what possesions they can carry, arrive in a steady trickle at an IDP camp erected next to an AMISOM military base near the town of Jowhar, Somalia, on November 12. Heavy rains in Somalia, coupled with recent disputes between clans, has resulted in over four thousand IDPs seeking shelter at an AMISOM military base near the town of Jowhar, with more arriving daily. AU UN IST Photo / Tobin Jones

24 Aug 2023 1 minute read

Taxcast: Who owns the climate crisis?

Naomi Fowler of the Tax Justice Network investigates how wealthy elites and transnational companies benefit...

Migrant deaths cartoon by Papadam/Shutterstock

15 Aug 2023 6 minute read

Migrant deaths: tragedy – or murder?

Nanjala Nyabola asks why migration policies have become so deadly, and what it will take to change them.

Illustration of Agony Uncle's advice about gentrification. BY EMMA PEER

12 Sep 2023 3 minute read

Agony Uncle: Am I contributing to gentrification?

‘I was pushed out due to rising rents; now I'm inflicting the same on others. What should I do?’ Our in-house ethics advisor...

A photo of the US stock exchange. Aditya Vyas/Unsplash

13 Aug 2023 2 minute read

Taxcast: How the very wealthy shape the world

From spoiled pets to private jets, Naomi Fowler takes a look at the deformities created by the wealthy—and...

The audience watches two performers dressed as fat cats. They are on the stage with a red silk and one is holding an eviction notice

25 Jun 2023 4 minute read

Housing is a circus

A new aerial cabaret show explores the housing crisis and the debts of home. Amy Hall reports.

Gathering vegetables for market in the Mau Forest, August 2008. REUTERS/FINBARR O'REILLY

19 Jun 2023 20 minute read

The Ogiek won reparations, now they want results

One year after a court ruling, the Ogiek are still waiting for reparations. Amy Hall reports on a case that...

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...

A man looks at the Qoloji displacement camp, the largest in Ethiopia. EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr

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...

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle

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...

The tagline of Iran’s recent prowomen’s movement is translated from a Kurdish slogan which neatly captures the ideology of the Kurdish feminist revolution. Here a mural displays the Kurdish original. HERZI PINKI/CREATIVE COMMONS

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...

A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The Municipal Corporation in Chandigarh pays a 22,044 USD per month to rent the watches. ASMA HAFIZ

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...

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