Forget Scream, The Exorcist and Jaws: The nightmare on Downing Street is coming to a cinema near you.
Haiti two years on: beyond relief, beyond belief
Haiti is not just recovering from the earthquake but from the political and economic interventions of recent decades, says Phillip Wearne.
Death by spider - deforestation in Pakistan
A strange phenomenon is a new danger for already depleted forests.
A harsh winter for China's discontented
Shuang Gho on the plight of those who dare to complain against abuses by the authorities.
Is the European Union damaging to democratic rights?
Read two opposing arguments and join the debate.
Magazine
Haiti two years on: beyond relief, beyond belief
Haiti is not just recovering from the earthquake but from the political and economic interventions of recent decades, as Phillip Wearne explains.
- Phillip Wearne
- Issue 449
- 6 Jan 2012
Sumatra: this land is my land
Daniel Pye reports from Indonesia on a dogged resistance by rural communities to plantation companies’ violent land-grabbing.
- Daniel Pye
- Web
- 6 Jan 2012
Counting kids in Sierra Leone
The country’s first headcount of street children is complete. Now the government must act, says Gabriella Jozwiak.
- Gabriella Jozwiak
- Web
- 5 Jan 2012
Iowa: Republican for a day
Attending the state caucuses makes for an uncomfortable, but fascinating, day out, as Mark Engler discovers.
- Mark Engler
- Web
- 5 Jan 2012
Death by spider: deforestation in Pakistan
A strange phenomenon is worsening an already dire situation for the country’s trees, says Syed Hamad Ali.
- Syed Hamad Ali
- Web
- 4 Jan 2012
Can Zambia stand up to China?
Many Zambians feel that the flood of money from China has done nothing to improve their lives, as Andrew Bowman reports.
- Andrew Bowman
- Web
- 2 Jan 2012
Blogs
Another New Year is Possible
David Ransom knows of no better way to celebrate New Year than as the anniversary of the Zapatista insurgency in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1994.
- David Ransom
- 6 Jan 2012
Nigeria’s fuel subsidy: the spark that lit the fire
By cutting the fuel subsidy the Nigerian government has snatched away the main benefit to the people from the country’s oil wealth, says Sokari Ekine.
- Sokari Ekine
- 6 Jan 2012
Chevron found guilty in Ecuador… again
But it won’t be long before they come up with another excuse, says Mike G from the Rainforest Action Network.
- Mike G
- 5 Jan 2012
Best of the web: most read 2011
Just in case you missed them, the top 10 New Internationalist blogs and features of 2011.
- Xanna Ward-Dixon
- 3 Jan 2012
Christmas in a devastated land
This year, 25 December was about survival, not celebration, for the people of northern Mindanao in the Philippines, says Iris Gonzales.
- Iris Gonzales
- 4 Jan 2012
Podcast: Mark Schuller on Haiti after the earthquake
Mark Schuller, an expert on the relief effort after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, talks about the positive and negative aspects of NGO relief work in the two years since.
- Mark Schuller
- 3 Jan 2012
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