New Internationalist

When, back in March, we first discussed doing this issue on ‘the world after Covid-19’, there was some concern that the pandemic might have passed by the time we published. If only! Today, as some countries see the infection rate rising in their popu

Liliana Merizalde Gonzalez is a Colombian documentary photographer interested in identity, memory and territory issues generally linked to women and their strength. Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher and activist. He is the North

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Thank you so much for your excellent articles on the Kurds (NI 526). It is incredibly difficult to get the ‘mainstream’ media to take any interest in what is happening and the Australian government turns a blind eye to Erdoğan’s outrages – and to the

As Covid-19 spreads inexorably throughout the world, refugee-led organizations are key to keeping their communities safe, new research has revealed. There are huge risks in overcrowded camps where the traditional sources of support – UN agencies, int

When he topped the polls in Malawi’s Presidential election in June, 65-year-old Lazarus Chakwera broke through a number of African barriers. It is infrequent enough to see a peaceful transition to power from an opposition leader, but what is surely a

Consumerism and social protest have always been an awkward fit, yet recent history is replete with brands sidling up to important causes to skilfully market their products to the public. From the ridiculed Pepsi advert starring reality television sta

In a defining moment for the Amazon and other forests, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has agreed to hear the case of the threatened Los Cedros Protected Forest and potentially set a worldwide precedent for the protection of the environment. In 2

Hundreds of thousands of women in the Muslim majority province of Xinjiang are thought to have been subjected to regular pregnancy checks, coercive birth control and abortion procedures by the Chinese authorities, an investigation by Associated Press

Dads in Canada have been feeling the benefit of spending more time with their kids during the Covid-19 shutdown. A survey carried out by the Canadian Men’s Health Foundation asked fathers about the impact of coronavirus and 40 per cent of those respo

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Since 2014, the number of people who are chronically undernourished – unable to fulfil their food needs long term – has been rising. 1 in 9 people suffer severe hunger worldwide. 19% of people in Africa go hungry in Africa, the highest rate in the wo

In June the Slovenian government announced a list of over 180 investments aimed at kick-starting the economy post-Covid-19, including gas projects, road construction and a new nuclear power plant. It also suspended environmental and nature protection

The city of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu is known as the knitting capital of India. Thousands of garment factories, which make clothes for the domestic market and for export, co-exist with garment districts full of homeworkers. Some workshops just stitch on

A sign on an empty building in the West Bank city of Hebron declares, ‘this land was stolen by Arabs’. The notice was hung there by the Jewish residents of a nearby settlement, but similar signs proliferate across the region – Hebrew designations sup

Poverty in Palestine is on the rise, with rates increasing by more than 10 per cent over the past decade. Some 14% of West Bank Palestinians and 52% of Gazans live below the poverty line, and the pandemic is forecast to inflate these ratios to 30% an

An interesting thing has been happening in the US, where simply asking people to wear masks in order to reduce the spread of Covid-19 has turned into a hot debate about personal freedom. In late June, voters in Florida county testified before their l

Sudan’s ‘public order’ laws were the scourge of women’s lives under Bashir’s rule. The set of regulations stemmed from state-level ‘Public Order Acts’ that governed relationships between the sexes, and a national 1991 Criminal Code that banned ‘offen

In 2017, when a 19-year-old went missing from home in Greater Noida, a suburb of the Indian capital, locals raided the house of five Nigerian students living a few doors away, accusing them of being cannibals who had eaten the youth. Later the youngs

by Pilar Quintana, translated by Lisa Dillman (World Editions, ISBN 9781912987054) worldeditions.org Despite its brevity and a deceptively simple plot, Pilar Quintana’s novella manages to tackle, with the lightest of touches, a striking range of prof

by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox (World Editions, ISBN 9781642860696) worldeditions.org Born to a black single mother in Guadeloupe, twins Ivan and Ivana learn early in life that the odds are stacked against them; indeed, the title of t

by Esther Woolfson (Granta, ISBN 97811783782796) granta.com Humans have been pondering our interaction with our co-inhabitants of Earth as long as we have been on the planet. Cave drawings and carvings depicting predators and prey species such as tig

by Barbara Demick (Granta, ISBN 9781783785704) granta.com Ngaba was ‘a nothing little town that had just gotten its first set of traffic lights’ when it shot to fame as the world capital of self-immolations. To date, of the 156 Tibetans who have set

Q: Shops have recently begun to reopen in my town and the first day saw hundreds of people queueing from the early hours for fast-fashion bargains. The fashion industry is responsible for 10 per cent of humanity’s carbon emission output but, amid the

25 March. It’s the date that this year, based on my income and rent costs, I stopped working for my landlord and started working for myself – my ‘freedom from rent day’. I earn an average UK salary, live in a house-share and enjoy below market-rate r