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We speak to the journalist, digital safety campaigner and author about online harms, Big Tech accountability, and how to make ...
The language fell into a long decline that was worsened by an Gorta M ó r, the state-sponsored famine of 1845 to 1853 which ...
For Palestinian children in Egypt, the promise of education remains locked behind bureaucracy, high fees and systemic ...
Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega ...
The disappearing Senegalese sardines Far out. Fishers haul in their catch some 60 kilometres off the coast of Saint Louis, Senegal. They report travelling further, for longer, to catch ever-dwindling ...
But the source of Felix’s seemingly progressive beliefs about women’s sexual pleasure pre-dates Kagame by hundreds of years. Our conversation is not about policy or the post-genocide recovery but ...
From 2014-16, an unprecedented Ebola epidemic killed more than 11,000 people across West Africa. Now scientists have linked the outbreak to rapid deforestation. Was this wave of death triggered by ...
Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’.
New Internationalist 347 July 2002 Corporate influence / A HISTORY What is a corporation? Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary defines it as 'an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual ...
Palestine’s poets, novelists, musicians and journalists have not only voiced their people’s liberation struggle but also driven it. Decca Muldowney charts their role in resisting annihilation and ...
Who doesn’t love a tale of courage? They pop up in all cultures, traditions and eras. From shepherd-boy David facing giant Goliath, to Gilgamesh defeating the monster Humbaba, to Harry Potter and ...