NI editorial comment - United Nations of America?
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NI editorial comment - United Nations of America?
Filed in: UN
In memoriam Archbishop Romero, murdered in El Salvador 25 years ago.
Filed in: El Salvador
The aftermath and implications of the Asian tsunami. Includes: the Burmese migrant workers who were forgotten victims; caste discrimination in India even amid the tsunami trauma; an NI reader on helping to identify bodies in Thailand.
A special on coal – including the ‘clean coal’ con, windpower in China, success in Bangladesh and activism everywhere.
Activists scrub the grubby face of globalization clean
Positive outcome, but at a cost of seven campaigners lives, killed by police during a demonstration against the GCM coalmine in Bangladesh.
Renewables revolution is there for the taking
Jorge’s community is part of the 500,000-strong Wayúu indigenous group, and it is not only their home in the northern foothills of the Sierra de Perijá which is under threat.
The seventh World Social Forum (WSF) took place this January in Nairobi, Kenya.
We arrived at the stadium where the 2007 World Social Forum was taking place.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
With capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Alan Hughes can’t believe the nerve of the London Mayor, who’s trying to dupe people into cleaning up the capital ahead of the Olympics.