Currents

The fading roar
Without the Tigers, can the Tamils ever obtain equality?

Dirty diplomacy
Concern over the Canadian Government's handling of Canada’s tar sands

Denial and dismissal
Despite growing evidence, the Kenyan Government evades accountability for murder

Cargill exposed
Transnational food company found modifying all its rice to evade price controls

A pressing issue
Belarusian journalists ‘gagged’ by draconian censorship laws

Taken for a bride
Saudi judge upholds the arranged marriage between an eight-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man.

Lock out the poor
In Rio, a wall is being built to separate the slums from the city

Running scared
No reprieve for gay community living with 30 years of sharia law

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

The road to meltdown
How did we get here? David Ransom takes a global – and historical – look.

City of whispers
Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with Dinyar Godrej.

Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.

I will return...and I will be millions
Are things beginning to look up for the world’s indigenous peoples? Vanessa Baird begins a series of three reports from Bolivia, where the signs look most hopeful – and most precarious.

Israel, Palestine and the Hypocrisies of Power – an interview with Noam Chomsky
Celebrated American intellectual and activist Noam Chomsky provides a devastating insight into what lies behind the Israel-Palestine conflict and some of the obstacles to the viability of a Palestinian state.

The scramble for Africa
Katharine Ainger traces the connections between the Western World’s prosperity and Africa’s misery.