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24 Sep 2020 3 minute read

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Kids locked up

Amy Hall speaks to the campaigners leading the call against childhood incarceration of Aboriginal and...

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16 Sep 2020 5 minute read

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‘Young people in our country need care and support to thrive’

Flavia Mutamutega, Rwanda’s sole agony aunt for adolescent girls, tells...

A trans sex worker takes to the streets of Tegucigalpa Credit: Frauke Decoodt

25 Aug 2020 7 minute read

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On the pink corridor

How trans women in Honduras are helping their imprisoned sisters. Frauke Decoodt reports from Tegucigalpa...

Illustration by Andy Carter

23 Aug 2020 3 minute read

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What if…landlords were abolished?

Amy Hall makes the case for people-powered housing.

Illustration by Emma Peer

27 Jul 2020 3 minute read

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In an uncertain global future, is it ethical to have children?

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

Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020.

16 Jun 2020 5 minute read

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Out of sight, out of mind

This Covid-19 crisis is not the ultimate leveller. Just like the financial crash of 2008, it is producing winners and losers...

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15 Jun 2020 5 minute read

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Fighting hunger with solidarity

As employment dwindles and mass evictions loom, Keira Dignan and Frans Jansson speak to...

15 Jun 2020 9 minute read

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Two Demons: Covid-19 and abuse

Stephanie Boyd on the making of a groundbreaking indigenous film about the pandemic in Peru’s Amazon.

15 Jun 2020 4 minute read

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Iranian child rights activists seek asylum abroad

Veronique Mistiaen speaks to an Iranian human rights activist currently in hiding.

Terrence Floyd, George Floyd's brother, speaks at his brother's memorial at Chicago Ave and E 38th St in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Credit: Lorie Shaull/Flickr

4 Jun 2020 7 minute read

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Police brutality is not just a US problem

Amy Hall on why the Black Lives Matter movement is once again resonating around the world.

The fight continues: indigenous groups and their allies blockade government buildings in Victoria, Canada to protest a natural gas pipeline through Wet'suwet'en territory. Zuma Press inc/Alamy

2 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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Temperature check

Danny Chivers is buoyed up by three decisive victories led by indigenous groups against fossil fuel...

Illustration: Marco Melgrati

1 Jun 2020 10 minute read

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The self-help myth

Political theorist Neil Vallelly on why the state keeps passing the buck to the individual.

Illustration by Andy Carter

1 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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What if…we had quotas for women in politics?

Vanessa Baird looks at what gender parity can do.

An elderly man wearing a protective face mask passes a sign publicizing a rent strike during the global outbreak of the coronavirus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo

26 May 2020 7 minute read

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Can’t pay, won’t pay

The Covid-19 crisis has triggered an international rent strike. Amy Hall reports on the housing activists...

Protesters against Argentina’s hunger crisis gather for a brew, 5 September 2019. They had camped out overnight in front of the Ministry of Social Development in Buenos Aires. CAROL SMILJAN/NURPHOTO/PA

21 Apr 2020 6 minute read

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Argentina’s big squeeze

Why is hunger growing in a country known as an agricultural powerhouse? Amy Booth reports from Buenos Aires...

The Ashaninka are an indigenous people living in the State of Acre, Brazil. © Pedro França/MinC

16 Apr 2020 3 minute read

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View from Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto on the war against indigenous people.

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