A victim-led exhibition of those who have suffered nearly 40 years of uninterrupted conflict, by AHRDO.
Articles by New Internationalist Editorial
Worldbeaters: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hawkish Hillary is a friend of bankers and warmongers, despite her Democratic credentials.
- April 1, 2016
- 0
Help us reach our fundraising goals!
Independent journalism is an endangered species — together we can protect and defend it. Helen Wallis explains why it is important to support New Internationalist.
- March 1, 2016
- 0
Saudi Arabia – The Facts
The key facts you need to know about the country’s people, environment, oil economy, human rights and more.
- March 1, 2016
- 0
Worldbeaters: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey’s president is one of the political class’s more humourless and intolerant specimens.
- March 1, 2016
- 0
David Ransom: a tribute
The former NI co-editor, who died this week, was a much-loved colleague, friend and mentor.
- February 17, 2016
- 3
The Jungle: Calais photo gallery
French officials have vowed to bulldoze the Calais migrant camp known as ‘The Jungle’. This gallery presents images from inside the migrant camp.
- January 15, 2016
- 0
Last year's top stories make splash in 2016
A rundown of New Internationalist’s most popular web articles from 2015.
- January 4, 2016
- 0
Global refugee crisis: the facts
Where people come from, where they flee to – and why they keep moving. New Internationalist gives a worldwide context for refugee flows with this zoomable infograph from our Jan/Feb magazine.
- January 1, 2016
- 0
Mixed Media: Best of 2015
The films, music and books that made the grade this year.
- January 1, 2016
- 0
‘Indigenous people were silenced and erased’
An open letter from the Wretched of the Earth bloc to the organizers of the People’s Climate March of Justice and Jobs.
- December 17, 2015
- 8
Paris D12 and redlines: updates
New Internationalist followed the Paris ‘D12’ and ‘red lines’ actions as people amplified their voices for climate justice.
- December 12, 2015
- 0
COP21: From frontlines to redlines photo gallery
This New Internationalist photo gallery presents events from frontline struggles against climate change during the Paris climate talks.
- December 11, 2015
- 0
Worldbeaters: Enrique Pena Nieto
The Mexican president may look like butter wouldn’t melt… but looks can be deceiving.
- December 1, 2015
- 0
Global Climate March: pictures from around the world
People marching in France, Germany, South Africa and elsewhere on 29 November 2015, part of New Internationalist’s live coverage of the Paris climate talks.
- November 29, 2015
- 1
Thank you. Together, we’re changing the story at the Paris climate talks!
With your support New Internationalist has reached its goal.
- November 6, 2015
- 0
Book reviews
An East German spy thriller with a difference - just one of the books reviewed this month.
- November 1, 2015
- 0
Is social media doing social harm?
Meredith L Patterson and Deanna Zandt go head to head.
- November 1, 2015
- 0
Paris climate summit – let’s change the story
Help New Internationalist provide a platform for grassroots voices at the COP21 talks.
- October 22, 2015
- 1
Trans-action
A collection of pro trans organizations, websites, support groups, books, movies and more, from New Internationalist’s October magazine.
- October 1, 2015
- 0
I am what I am
Eight people from across the world share their transgender experience.
- October 1, 2015
- 0
Worldbeater: Wolfgang Schäuble
This New Internationalist editorial takes a look at Germany’s finance minister.
- October 1, 2015
- 0
Mixed media: Books
Book reviews from our October magazine include The Underground by Hamid Ismailov; The New Threat by Jason Burke; The Wikileaks Files by Wikileaks; and America’s Dreyfus by Joan Brady.
- October 1, 2015
- 0
Transgender – the facts
This New Internationalist fact spread looks at the violence and discrimination that trans people face.
- October 1, 2015
- 0
Mixed media: Music
Music reviews from the September issue of New Internationalist magazine.
- October 1, 2015
- 0
Mixed media: Film
New Internationalist offers film reviews from its October magazine.
- October 1, 2015
- 0
Syrian conflict: the facts
Syria’s civil war has inflicted a humanitarian crisis, expansive exodus of the population and a severe death toll. New Internationalist presents the facts in this zoomable infograph.
- September 1, 2015
- 1
Juan Orlando Hernández – the man who should resign
Despite a fig leaf of respectability, scandals are stacking up for the Honduran president.
- July 6, 2015
- 1
Can eating meat and dairy products be sustainable?
Simon Fairlie and James McWilliams go head to head.
- June 1, 2015
- 1
Haiti's Seeds in A Dark Fruit Sky
A new literary project shines a light on Haiti’s storytelling tradition.
- May 7, 2015
- 0
The perpetrator, the victim, and a play of reconciliation
Dave Wybrow explains the lessons to be learnt from a long-ago terrorist act.
- April 7, 2015
- 0
Islamic State and the destruction of Iraq’s historical heritage
The Islamist organization’s wanton annihilation of Iraq’s history is a shock ploy.
- March 16, 2015
- 0
Life in the circle
The CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year competition has opened its gates again. Take a look at last year’s entries here.
- March 9, 2015
- 0
Worldbeater... Narendra Modi
The self-aggrandizing Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
- March 1, 2015
- 0
If you care about climate change, should you have children?
Professor Anne Hendrixson and journalist Erica Gies go head to head.
- March 1, 2015
- 6
Climate Change: What’s Really Been Going On (And How We Can Solve It)
Why haven’t we solved climate change yet? Watch our latest video on the issue to hear what’s really been going on.
- February 9, 2015
- 2
Living with fracking
What’s it like to live next door to the fracking rigs? Six photographers spent two years in gas-rich Pennsylvania trying to find out.
- February 4, 2015
- 0
Digital democracy: action and contacts
Further information, campaign groups and websites.
- January 1, 2015
- 0
Democracy in the digital era - the facts
The facts and figures that matter in our infographic.
- January 1, 2015
- 0
PHOTO ESSAY: After the tsunami
A series of images taken by Tim Hetherington a year after the disaster are now part of a multimedia exhibition.
- December 26, 2014
- 0
Ending child marriage in Zambia
An introduction to some of those fighting for girls’ rights and education in a short documentary from Girls Not Brides.
- December 17, 2014
- 0
Carbon bubbles in the boardroom
The fossil fuel divestment movement is taking the world by storm – and has had some major victories.
- December 3, 2014
- 1
Is the International Criminal Court racist?
David Hoile and Angela Mudukuti go head to head.
- December 1, 2014
- 1
TV's transgender trendsetter
How Padmini Prakash makes history in India, by Krishna.
- December 1, 2014
- 0
Spirit of Malombo
A new album celebrates the legacy of South-African artist-turned-political activist Julian Bahula.
- November 28, 2014
- 0
Video: Owen Jones unleashes powerful attack on British Establishment
Insights into power structure by the best-selling author.
- November 25, 2014
- 0
Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?
Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.
- November 1, 2014
- 3
Introducing the latest New Internationalist App
We’ve been working hard to produce a beautiful new iOS app, and it’s finally ready for use. Read all about it, and sign up to get one month’s free access to the magazine.
- October 23, 2014
- 1
Is boycotting Israel the right way to fight for Palestinian rights?
Ilan Pappé and Norman Finkelstein analyze the pros and cons of the BDS movement.
- October 1, 2014
- 3
Would Scottish independence be good for radical politics?
Read what writer and activist Adam Ramsay and professor and author Jim Gallagher think - then join the debate.
- September 1, 2014
- 1
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Do you support our focus on human rights, social justice and the environment? Here’s one easy way you can help!
- August 20, 2014
- 0
Can plastic surgery be liberating?
Feminist blogger Danielle Leigh and filmmaker and former model Susan Hess Logeais go head to head.
- July 1, 2014
- 1
Are riots good for democracy?
Professor and author Stephen D’Arcy and historian and journalist Vijay Prashad go head to head.
- June 1, 2014
- 2
Should halal and kosher methods of slaughter be banned?
Viva! campaigner Tony Wardle and social commentator Mohammed Ansar go head to head.
- May 1, 2014
- 11
‘We need to be the face of Ukraine’
Three Ukrainians living in Britain respond to recent events in their homeland.
- April 22, 2014
- 11
Happy Thingyan Water Festival for Rohingyas? Like hell
One Western aid worker is frustrated and sickened by what’s going on in Burma.
- April 16, 2014
- 1
Pursuing a world without migration has tragic consequences
Sub-Saharan migrants write an open letter to organizations and citizens around the world to protest their treatment by Moroccan authorities.
- April 9, 2014
- 0
Should there be a basic income?
Basic Income UK co-ordinator Barb Jacobson and author and sociologist Francine Mestrum go head to head.
- April 1, 2014
- 2
Can porn be ethical?
Porn performer and lecturer Kitty Stryker and feminist writer and activist Louise Pennington go head to head.
- March 1, 2014
- 9
The dirt on Olli Rehn
Introducing the EU’s austerity czar, a Finnish Eurocrat and self-styled archangel of fiscal sobriety.
- December 1, 2013
- 0
Is it time to junk the UN Security Council?
Lecturer and writer Phil Leech and researcher Richard Gowan go head to head.
- December 1, 2013
- 2
Argument: Has the Arab Spring failed?
Writer and academic Myriam Francois-Cerrah and journalist Noreen Sadik go head-to-head.
- October 1, 2013
- 3
Argument: Should 16-year-olds get the vote?
Politics academic Andrew Mycock and UK Youth Parliament member Chanté Joseph go head-to-head.
- September 1, 2013
- 9
Debt – The Facts
At any given time countries both owe debts and have them owing to them. Who owes what and what’s the bigger crisis – foreign or domestic debt.
- July 1, 2013
- 0
Argument: Are exams bad for children?
Teachers Stephanie Schneider and Matt Christison go head-to-head.
- July 1, 2013
- 6
Europe gets its first ‘Tar-Free City’
Oxford takes a lead from communities in the US by rejecting oil from Canada’s destructive tar sands project.
- June 25, 2013
- 0
Argument: Can shopping be a form of activism?
Neal Lawson and Ruth Potts, both campaigners and writers, go head-to-head.
- June 1, 2013
- 1
Land Grabs – The Facts
An infographic guide to investors, target lands and crops grown.
- May 1, 2013
- 0
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
Economist and author Dan O’Neill and journalist and author Daniel Ben-Ami go head-to-head.
- May 1, 2013
- 20
We've been nominated for an Utne Media Award
The independent journalism connoisseurs have recognized us for our international coverage.
- April 23, 2013
- 0
Housing - The Facts
Prices through the roof, a gaping deficit, homelessness, one billion in slums and an urban takeover.
- April 1, 2013
- 0
Argument: Should prostitution be legalized?
Human rights lawyer Dianne Post and writer and filmmaker Bishakha Datta go head-to-head.
- April 1, 2013
- 51
New Internationalist cartoonist detained
Palestinian Mohammad Saba’aneh is being held without charge by the Israel Defense Forces.
- March 11, 2013
- 2
Argument: Is male circumcision harmful?
Richard Wamai and Ronald Goldman go head to head.
- March 1, 2013
- 90
The New Internationalists: where are they now?
Aminatou Haidar, from Western Sahara; Rigoberta Menchú, from Guatemala; Mari Marcel Thekaekara, from India; and Domitila Barrios de Chungara, from Bolivia.
- March 1, 2013
- 1
World Progress 1970-2010 - The Facts
Steps forward, steps back - what effect have 40 years of development had?
- March 1, 2013
- 0
Barclays ends food speculation
Campaigners have welcomed the move to pull out of speculative deals with hedge funds which made the company up to £278 million in 2012.
- February 14, 2013
- 0
Azerbaijan's pompous kleptocrat
Worldbeater dishes the dirt on Ilham Aliyev, master of autocratic self-enrichment.
- January 1, 2013
- 0
New Internationalist for EFL/ESOL
A new free resource for English learners and teachers.
- December 3, 2012
- 1
Digital freedoms – The Facts
Who’s online where, who has your data and how much are they spending to get it?
- December 1, 2012
- 0
Barclays considers quitting food speculation
Britain’s biggest commodities player admits that betting on food prices bad for image, as campaigners push for regulation.
- November 29, 2012
- 1
PHOTO: Gaza’s child death toll rising
Anne Paq’s photograph of a Palestinian boy killed in an Israeli air-strike brings home the horror of an escalating conflict.
- November 16, 2012
- 1
Healthcare and inequality - The Facts
A matter of life and death: the contrasting rates of mortality, access to medicine and care across the globe.
- November 1, 2012
- 1
Is there a place for GM crops in a sustainable future?
Author and journalist Mark Lynas and researcher and writer Claire Robinson go head-to-head.
- November 1, 2012
- 3
Youth – The Facts
This infographic takes a closer look at the contrasting lives of the 1.2 billion young people aged 15-24 worldwide.
- October 1, 2012
- 1
Is China good for Africa?
Writer and activist Firoze Manji and professor Stephen Chan go head-to-head.
- October 1, 2012
- 2
Tax justice podcast: the pin-stripe mafia
Switzerland, Bangladesh and the Big Four accountancy firms are featured in the latest Tax Justice Network podcast.
- October 1, 2012
- 0
Video: Camila Vallejo interview
The high-profile Chilean student leader says the one per cent’s monopoly of power must be fought.
- September 21, 2012
- 1
Should celebrities promote charities?
Professors Mark Wheeler and Ilan Kapoor go head-to-head.
- September 1, 2012
- 1
Podcast: taxing disparity
August’s Taxcast looks at capital flight, the taxes of Usain Bolt and inequality with the authors of The Spirit Level.
- August 29, 2012
- 0
VIDEO: London riots one year on
A young documentary maker explores how community anger at the police helped spark the unrest that swept through England last August.
- August 6, 2012
- 1
World leaders failed at Rio Earth Summit
NGOs and campaign groups lament a disappointing conference but draw hope from beyond the conference walls.
- June 22, 2012
- 1
LGBT refugees lack NGO protection
On World Refugee Day, a report argues that refugee organizations around the world are not doing enough to help and protect LGBT migrants.
- June 20, 2012
- 0
Tax haven insiders speak out
In the latest Taxcast, the co-founder of Facebook ‘unfriends’ the US and Europe considers a Financial Transaction Tax.
- May 24, 2012
- 0
NI shortlisted for Amnesty Media Award
A selection of articles from the October 2011 issue ‘Nature’s Defenders: can indigenous people save the planet?’ are up for the award.
- May 2, 2012
- 0
Video: To BP or not to BP?
A group of merry players perform an anti-BP soliloquy to an unsuspecting audience at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
- April 26, 2012
- 1
Dirty hands – the World Bank’s role in land-grabbing
As delegates gather at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, two videos expose what happens when community land is taken over by private interests.
- April 23, 2012
- 3
The dirt on Teodoro Obiang
Time to take aim at the tyrannical President of Equatorial Guinea in this month’s ‘Worldbeater’.
- April 1, 2012
- 0
Apple i-tax dodging and the ABCs of letterbox companies...
… and lots more in the latest Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network.
- March 28, 2012
- 0
Media Lens and Rupert Read – second thoughts
New Internationalist comments on a recent post.
- February 24, 2012
- 6
UN ‘travesty’: resolutions of mass destruction - Part 2
How has the corporate press reacted to the fighting in Syria?
- February 22, 2012
- 0
UN ‘travesty’: resolutions of mass destruction (Part 1)
Why haven’t our leaders, itching to get the UN security council to act on Syria, learnt the lessons of UN intervention in Libya?
- February 20, 2012
- 3
Dying for a soup
An estimated 73 million sharks are slaughtered every year for their fins, with 110 species now facing extinction, reports Claire C.
- October 1, 2011
- 0
Kim Longinotto
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto on her latest film, Pink Saris.
- September 1, 2011
- 0
Put paid to poverty
The time has come for Britain’s biggest companies to pay living wages, says Matthew Butcher of FairPensions.
- May 13, 2011
- 3
A military dictatorship in all but name
Burma’s much-touted ‘roadmap to democracy’ is anything but, say Jody Williams and Tin Tin Nyo.
- May 4, 2011
- 2
Hard road to justice
Three personal stories of the battles being fought for workers’ rights.
- April 1, 2011
- 0
Mikheil Saakashvili
The democratic credentials of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are in tatters.
- January 1, 2009
- 0
Remember, remember the fourth of November
New law gives animal rights campaigners reason to celebrate.
- January 1, 2009
- 0
Nominees for Most Artful Tax Dodger
New Internationalist’s list of nominees for Most Artful Tax Dodger.
- November 20, 2008
- 0
Nuclear weapons: a history
From the Manhattan Project and Hiroshima, to the Cold War, North Korea and beyond, nuclear fission has changed everything.
- June 1, 2008
- 15
Getting out
Here, in numbers, is the story of the four years since US and British troops ‘liberated’ Iraq
- December 1, 2007
- 0
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Philippines, has been called ‘the fourth most powerful woman in the world’. But she needs the iron hands of her generals.
- December 1, 2007
- 0
Depleted uranium – Action
Including Building the ban with Belgian activists and DU and the law.
- November 1, 2007
- 0
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton, frontrunner in the race for the White House, is a woman. Unfortunately, that’s where the good news ends.
- November 1, 2007
- 0
Planet Ocean Book Launch
Take a deep breath and jump in to Planet Ocean
Come and join us for the UK book launch, 18th October, 6:30pm at Waterstones, Piccadilly, London. (see map below)
- October 12, 2007
- 0
Christopher and Peter Hitchens
Estranged brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens, opinionated columnists, have completed ideological journeys from far Left to far Right.
- October 1, 2007
- 0
Cybercriminals, beware!
Code cracker gets four years in jail and loses rights to residency.
- October 1, 2007
- 0
The ISI
Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency, the ISI, finds out what it is like to be in the firing line.
- July 1, 2007
- 1
Earth summit
Thousands gather in Guatemala for the Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala
- June 1, 2007
- 0
Healthy competition, anyone?
Logging company director charged with incitement to commit murder
- June 1, 2007
- 0
To transform pain to power
Dalit women speak out against human rights abuses and discrimination at an international conference in The Hague, Netherlands.
- December 6, 2006
- 0
Robert Kocharian
Armenian leader Robert Kocharian could give lessons in how to flirt with dictatorship but pull back just enough to maintain European good will – despite listing one of his hobbies as ‘War’.
- December 1, 2006
- 1
Have your say... on the future of fair trade
Fair trade business is booming across the Western world, which can only be good news for the millions of poor farmers struggling to survive in the face of collapsing commodity prices and ruthless multinationals, right? Maybe, but as fair trade goes mainstream, formerly-clear distinctions about who really benefits are getting blurry.
- October 23, 2006
- 0
How to read an ad
We asked the CEO of a major London ad agency to give us pointers on how to decode adverts.
- September 1, 2006
- 0
The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life and The Silver Throat of the Moon by refugee writers
- November 1, 2005
- 0
A Letter to the Prime Minister
A Letter to the Prime Minister directed by Julia Guest.
- November 1, 2005
- 0
Life
Egrets and tree frogs; migrant families and cityscapes: why the sixth and greatest extinction in the planet’s history is happening now.
- May 1, 2005
- 0
Only protect
The chilling message of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, conducted by more than 1,360 experts worldwide at the behest of the UN.
- May 1, 2005
- 0
Air
From desert storms to plane travel and smokestacks, how the air we breathe may prove to be our downfall.
- May 1, 2005
- 0
CHANGE
Recommendations for governments – and addresses of action groups that will keep them honest.
- May 1, 2005
- 0
Earth
From monoculture in Montana to the spreading Gobi desert in China, how our assault on the earth has eroded its thin skin of soil.
- May 1, 2005
- 0
Water
Bleached coral and beached ships; lost wetlands and sinking islands: the power of water over our health, our weather and our wars.
- May 1, 2005
- 0
The waves that woke the world
The aftermath and implications of the Asian tsunami. Includes: the Burmese migrant workers who were forgotten victims; caste discrimination in India even amid the tsunami trauma; an NI reader on helping to identify bodies in Thailand.
- April 1, 2005
- 0
Saving humanity from hell
It never was the UN’s job to make heaven on earth. Shashi Tharoor defends the organization against misguided missiles.
- January 1, 2005
- 0
L Paul Bremer III
Yale boy in Babylon: the US Viceroy in Iraq, L Paul Bremer III.
- September 1, 2003
- 0
Music Rebels
Political music pioneers Dmitri Shostakovich, Remitti, Víctor Jara, Cui Jian, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Mercedes Sosa and Miriam Makeba.
- August 1, 2003
- 0
The Tongan Royal Family
The world’s heaviest monarch and his fabulously wealthy children: the Tongan Royal Family under the microscope.
- July 1, 2003
- 1
Narendra Damodardas Modi
The butcher of Gujarat? India’s homegrown Hitler? Or Mr Simplicity? Narendra Damodardas Modi takes the stage.
- May 1, 2003
- 1
Saddam Hussein
Already faced by US military might, Saddam Hussein now has to cope with being profiled by the NI.
- March 1, 2003
- 0
Ultra Concentrated Media - Facts
Of monopoly and monoculture: the top six global media firms, with their cosy family of brands.
- April 1, 2001
- 0
Mine of inspiration
The NI issue on Landmines (NI 294) inspired a couple of Canadian students to produce an award-winning multimedia project on the subject.
- April 1, 2001
- 0
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's SUPERDOVE
It’s not a bird, nor a plane; it’s the mighty SUPERDOVE with a hundred ways to change the world without violence.
- April 1, 1999
- 0
Kosovo – death of democracy
Is there hope of reconciliation in Kosovo? Photos and a report from Europe’s latest war.
- April 1, 1999
- 0
Three Myths About World Hunger
Is there enough food? Is population, weather or science to blame for famine? New Internationalist replies to some myths about world hunger.
- September 5, 1985
- 5
Economics - THE FACTS
Facts and figures for you to refer to if you manage to struggle to the end of day seven.
- April 5, 1984
- 0
The aid link
Are we really helping the developing world or is overseas aid a waste for the people it’s meant to help and Western taxpayers?
- December 1, 1979
- 0
This is your captain speaking
A special message to the passengers on spaceship earth.
- June 1, 1976
- 0
A tale of two crises
There are two crises of the environment. For the majority in the developed world, there is a crisis of ‘too much’; for the developing world a crisis of ‘too little’.
- June 1, 1976
- 0
The Inheritors: children from five continents on ‘What we want when we’re 40’
The children of today will inherit the world of tomorrow. But what kind of environment do they want?
- June 1, 1976
- 0
Action now on baby foods
New Internationalist launches a campaign for action on baby foods.
- August 1, 1973
- 0
The second front
If the war on poverty is to be won, a second front must be opened – in the rich world.
- March 1, 1973
- 0