New Internationalist

Faustina, a street vendor in Accra, Ghana, has a steady stream of customers each day. She pays daily, monthly, and annual tolls to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly in order to carry out her work. Women like Faustina constitute about 70 per cent of the union's membership, and vendors of vegetables, grains, legumes, fish, and other related items like utensils, charcoal, and provisions are well represented. Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

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Business interests have hijacked the UN food

Small farmers, social movements and human rights are being elbowed out, says Kirtana Chandrasekaran.

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What if…we banned the intensive farming of

Hazel Healy imagines an end to cheap meat.

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Saving the Sundarbans

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the double whammy of natural disaster and Covid-19 that has brought a vulnerable...

Hadiya, in the red dress, appears at the Supreme Court in New Delhi to defend her marriage to her Muslim husband Shafin in one of India’s alleged ‘love jihad’ cases. Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty

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Love and other conspiracies

Laxmi Murthy reports on the theory of ‘love jihad’ that is sweeping across India.

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Summon the artists

Art is essential to building a better future, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

Not green, in fact: The Petra Nova CSS facility (pictured above) captured carbon from a coal plant in Texas, US... and used the CO2 to boost production at the West Ranch oil field, via a 130-kilometre pipeline. REUTERS/TRISH BADGER

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Carbon capture – still a pipe dream?

Danny Chivers weighs up the evidence on carbon-capture technologies and finds them wanting.

The abandoned remains of a forklift overgrown with trees, next to a destroyed beachfront house in Futaba, Fukushima. Credit: C.E.J. Simons.Credit: C.E.J. Simons.

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Fukushima communities are building a sustainable

Ten years on from the devastating nuclear disaster, citizens are working together to show that nuclear power and fossil...

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Yemen is not starving, Yemen is being starved

While the UN calls for international aid to avert famine in Yemen, the UK slashes its contribution. Sam Perlo-...

Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini (bottom, centre, in white top) with women peacemakers from conflict zones from around the world at ICAN's 2018 Annual Forum in Sri Lanka. Credit: ICAN

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Peace talks need women

Women in war zones are the best peace-makers, yet they rarely get a place at negotiation tables dominated by men. Iranian...

Malawi Citizens’ Assembly member Daudi Amidu, a merchant trader, dances alongside fellow participants as they take a pause from considering ways to improve local spending rules in Salima South, Lake Malawi. MADALITSO BANDA/ALL HANDS ON

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Defibrillating democracy

A kickstart for a habitable future. Claire Mellier and Rich Wilson make the case for ...

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Barefoot surgeons

In the absence of enough trained doctors, reliance on other, less-qualified health workers is growing in the Global South....

Bezos has a net worth higher than the individual GDPs of 141 of the world’s countries.

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Hall of infamy: Jeff Bezos

Why bully boy Bezos can’t stop smirking.