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11 Apr 2019 2 minute read

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Kenya’s refugee reporters

Sally Hayden reports on a fully independent, refugee-run news outlet in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

10 Apr 2019 6 minute read

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For women seeking refuge in Spain, a trail of peril awaits

The stories of women migrants making the desperate Mediterranean crossing to Europe are different from those of the men,...

30 Apr 2019 6 minute read

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Holding platforms accountable to digital workers’ rights

There is an urgent need to improve the welfare and job quality of digital workers, write Mark Graham,...

20 Mar 2019 1 minute read

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School students escalate call for political action on climate crisis

On March 15, climate strikes took place in more than 100 countries. New Internationalist talked to students in Oxford who...

7 Mar 2019 3 minute read

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Women: stop working!

Tomorrow’s strike embodies an alternative to neoliberal ‘female empowerment’, writes Lola Olufemi.

28 Feb 2019 5 minute read

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Networked but commodified: digital labour in the remote gig economy

Research by Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham and others shows how gig economy platforms commodify...

28 Feb 2019 3 minute read

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India’s opioid paradox

Sick people are dying in pain thanks to the misguided ‘war on drugs’, writes Martin Drewry.

1 Feb 2019 8 minute read

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How to survive elite institutions like Cambridge as a woman of colour

Husna Rizvi speaks to the activist-authors of A FLY Girl’s Guide to Cambridge – a new...

29 Jan 2019 6 minute read

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Should religion play a role in politics?

Dawn Foster and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown dispute whether or not religion should play a role in...

21 Jan 2019 6 minute read

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Catching the cops

Aboriginal people are using a new app to record and report police brutality. Will it help break Australia’s culture of...

14 Jan 2019 5 minute read

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Do we fetishize indigenous people?

Working on a documentary about the Moken ‘Sea Gypsies’ prompted Julian Sayarer to examine the West’s obtuse...

7 Jan 2019 3 minute read

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Brexit and the dark arts

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An indigenous movement in Jharkhand is reminding the Indian authorities of their constitutional duty to protect tribal lands.

1 Nov 2018 6 minute read

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Indigenous India: written in stone

An indigenous movement in Jharkhand is reminding the Indian authorities of their constitutional duty to protect tribal lands...

frightening erosion of human personality at the heart of the problem.

14 Dec 2018 7 minute read

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The personality crisis

As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why don’t we spring into action? Psychologist John...

14 Dec 2019 8 minute read

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Kick ‘em all out! Citizens’ Assemblies and the next democratic revolution

Citizens’ Assemblies are being promoted as the preferred democratic tool of a new generation of activists, Brett...

13 Dec 2018 5 minute read

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Forgotten people from a forgotten war

Ukraine’s internally displaced people are paying the price for a proxy conflict stoked by Russia. Daisy Gibbons...

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