Palestinian newborns dying at checkpoints
Gorhkaland: the second coming
The mountain that eats men alive
Libya's forgotten western front
Magazine
The return of the poster child
How exploitative and degrading images are still used to raise funds.
- David Ransom
- 13 Jul 2011
- 1
‘The mountain that eats men alive’
Cerro Rico is famed for the harsh conditions faced by its miners. But, as James Dryburgh discovers, it is not only men who are ‘rock-breakers’ in Bolivia’s Potosí region. Women too, some as old as 81, work in the shadow of the sacred mountain.
- James Dryburgh
- 11 Jul 2011
- 2
Gorkhaland – the second coming
In the sleepy Himalayan towns of West Bengal, India, an old agitation for Gorkha statehood is revived and ‘resolved’. Ann Morgan reports on a fascinating struggle.
- Ann Morgan
- 8 Jul 2011
- 1
The boys in Brazil's favelas who shun violence
Gender activist Gary Barker sees young men who respect woman and are connected fathers.
- Nikki van der Gaag
- 7 Jul 2011
- 0
Blogs
A Mogadishu soup kitchen feeds the hungry
The relief programme is a lifeline for destitute Somalis, as thousands flee acute food shortages in rural areas.
- New Internationalist
- 13 Jul 2011
- 0
Palestinian newborns are dying at checkpoints
Israeli soldiers blocking women in labour from reaching medical care have caused deaths of at least 35 newborns and five mothers, says a new Lancet report.
- Libby Powell
- 13 Jul 2011
- 1
The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration
‘An embrace from Silvio Berlusconi is generally best avoided, at any age. But one of the more dubious welcomes he extended earlier this year was to 20,000 or so migrants from Tunisia in an exodus following the Arab spring.’
- Peter Stalker
- 12 Jul 2011
- 0
NoViolet Bulawayo wins 2011 Caine Prize
The winner of the 2011 Caine Prize is Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo for her story ‘Hitting Budapest’.
- Dan Raymond-Barker
- 12 Jul 2011
- 1
Digging the Old Bailey archive
Sokari Ekine embarks on a journey to find if justice was served for Africans in Britain in the eighteenth century, before notions of race and racism were constructed.
- Sokari Ekine
- 5 Jul 2011
- 1
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