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Sweeping the streets
Poor South Africans fall foul of soccer tournament preparations
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Last frontier
Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes
Regime thumbs its nose at the world
The largest forced relocation since 1996-98
The road to recovery
A decade after independence, Timor-Leste’s people are still struggling to get justice
Named and shamed
Countries across the globe that are flouting international law and violating refugees’ rights.
Vulture culture
Time to close down the investment companies that feed off the living
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Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for?
What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for
that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a
10-point economic detox programme.
A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on
biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.
Too late for Martha
Denied treatment while pregnant, she died in agony after her child was
born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on
abortion in Colombia.
The banks are made of marble
The true owners of the silver in the vaults.
The fourth generation
Iran is young, vibrant and diverse, despite the repression, as Nasrin
Alavi explains.
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