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: Government officials pray over a storage box containing Covid-19 vaccines before they leave for various vaccination centres in Mumbai, India, in January this year. India is one of the countries that is calling for patents on Covid-19 vaccines to be waived during the pandemic. DHIRAJ SINGH/BLOOMBERG/GETTY

Vaccine equality: who gets it?

Heidi Chow on how to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for all, equitably and at scale.

Latest issue: March-April 2021

Democracy on the edge

KM Bhai conducting an RTI Workshop at his tea stall. Credit: KM Bhai

From his tea stall in rural Uttar Pradesh, Krishna Murari Yadav is supporting people to ask difficult questions of the Indian state, one hot drink at a time. Devyani Nighoskar reports.

Protesters run during a crackdown on anti-coup protests at Hlaing Township in Yangon, Myanmar March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Since the military coup in Myanmar, the situation continues to worsen. What are the avenues for international intervention and what difference could they really make? Yali Banton-Heath outlines the options.

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Husna Ara probes co-editor Amy Hall on New Internationalist’s bold Covid-19 rescue plan.

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After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running for the top job, writes Leonardo Sakamoto

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Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks about our need for privacy in a digital age.

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Vanessa Baird offers some nifty tips in tackling a growing problem.

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