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15/05/06 - Why won’t the Government tell the truth about home-grown terrorism? | Benjamin Coleman finds the British government’s reports on the bombings of 7 July 2005 look suspiciously like whitewash.
07/05/06 - Is this the way to make another Europe? | Vanessa Baird reports from The European Social Forum, Athens, 4-7 May 2006.
04/05/06 - India: Dam lies | As Narmada River dams continue to rise, so too do the protests about the homes and livelihoods disappearing under dam waters... and the government lies about those who are displaced. Dionne Bunsha reports.
28/04/06 - West Papua’s forgotten asylum seekers | For nearly half a century, Indonesia has refused to let go of the resource-rich territory of West Papua. During that time, an estimated 100,000 West Papuan independence-advocates have been killed by the Indonesian military – some just for displaying the West Papuan flag. The arrival of 43 asylum seekers in Australia in January 2006 has again brought the issue of West Papua to international attention.
21/12/05 - Photos from the WTO gathering | NI co-editor Vanessa Baird captured images from in and around the WTO gathering.
20/12/05 - Band-aids all round | The bruising World Trade Organization (WTO) gathering in Hong Kong achieved so little that there’s going to be another one to follow. NI co-editor Vanessa Baird assesses the quality of first aid on offer.
16/11/05 - Between a rock and a hard place | MSF staffer Mark Walsh witnesses first hand the plight of displaced Chechens in Ingushetia.
11/11/05 - Championship sponsors | International athlete Scott Winton asks a few awkward questions.
10/11/05 - Tea and fig - two leaves of fair trade | Nestlé's attempt to jump on the bandwagon is, says Stan Thekaekara, at once encouraging and disconcerting.
09/11/05 - Geldof 8 - Africa nil: how rock stars betrayed the poor | So, finally, what became of the Gleneagles G8 gathering and Live8 concerts in July? Detailed investigation and careful analysis by Stuart Hodkinson show that the smoke and mirrors favoured by celebrity egos at the time concealed a terrible void where effective action on Africa was claimed to be. Instead, the experience may mark another turning point in the campaign for global justice.
17/10/05 - The wrong label | In a move that has astonished campaigners in the trade and global-justice movements, the giant Nestlé corporation has been awarded a 'Fairtrade' mark for a new brand of its coffee in Britain. David Ransom wonders why.
09/09/05 - The Poverty of America | The disaster in New Orleans sheds new light on the nature of poverty in the rich world, according to Jeremy Seabrook.
29/07/05 - Eyes wide open at the G8 | Oli Renton is part of the face-to-face team that gets people to subscribe to New Internationalist on the streets and at public events. The G8 summit opened his eyes to police brutality and has got him worried about what lies in store after the London 7/7 bombings.
29/07/05 - From MPH To G8 - A Small Ngo's View | Pamela Nowicka takes an irreverent - but relevant - peek behind the scenes at both Make Poverty History and the G8.
18/07/05 - Poverty and the G8: So... what now? | It's the question on many lips. Now that the rockers, the marchers and protesters have gone home; now that the G8 leaders are back in their more familiar corridors of power: how is the fight for global justice to be kept in the spotlight?
17/03/05 - Feet to the flames | As the first left-wing government in 180 years takes office in Uruguay, Benjamin Dangl witnesses a moment to celebrate amid deep-seated difficulties.
15/02/05 - The Last Porto Alegre | Mark Engler assesses the state of the World Social Forum after five years.
14/02/05 - The Paramilitarization of Power | Javier Giraldo, a quietly spoken Jesuit priest who is also prominent member of the Justice and Peace Commission in Colombia, reveals how an internal armed conflict has been turned into an exercise in international private enterprise. He spoke with NI's David Ransom.
01/02/05 - The Legacy of Bhopal | The 20th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster has come and gone - but, as Neil Hodge reports, its impact on at least half a million lives continues unabated.
17/12/04 - Delta Orange |Horatio Morpurgo finds parallels between Ukraine's 'orange revolution' and the ecological brouhaha over the Danube Delta.
21/07/04 - Al-Jazeera: An Insider's Story | Shaista Aziz recounts her experiences in the Arab World's most popular news network.
18/06/04 - 'This isn't life... this is existence.' | Shaista Aziz reports from Lebanon.
09/03/04 - The Dictator | Jo Wilding reports from Iraq.
17/02/04 - Their Lips are Sealed | As public resentment of asylum seekers reaches fever pitch in Britain Neil Hodge finds asylum seekers forced to sleep on the streets - and to protest.
12/02/04 - WSF 2004 in Pictures | NI marketing co-ordinator Michael York attended this year's World Social Forum with camera in hand.
12/02/04 - Salaam Mumbai | More than 100,000 people converged for five days of debate, conferences, workshops, street theatre, art, protest, music and a wealth of informal chat and strategy-sharing. NI co-editor Vanessa Baird reports from the World Social Forum 2004.
16/01/04 - A People's Social Forum? | Mari Marcel Thekaekara sets the scene for the World Social Forum, which took place in Mumbai, India.
11/09/03 - The Fence at Kilometre Zero | Katharine Ainger's second report on the WTO meeting in Cancún.
11/09/03 - Pirates of the Caribbean and the Curse of the WTO in Cancún | September is stormy season in the Caribbean resort-town of Cancún. Far out on an inaccessible causeway that reaches into the Gulf of Mexico, the World Trade Organization is holding its Fifth Ministerial meeting. Katharine Ainger reports from Cancún.
12/06/03 - Media Musings on the G8 | David Ransom surveyed British media coverage of the recent G8 Summit in Evian, France and wasn't impressed.
02/06/03 - Water Privatizers on the Defensive | Between 16 and 23 March in Kyoto, Japan, the Third World Water Forum took place in a growing climate of controversy - and the middle of a full-scale war in Iraq. However, resource wars are not just about oil, as the battles over water privatization show. Olivier Hoedeman reports
29/05/03 - The Other Coke in Colombia | Lissa Rees reports on the call for a boycott of Coca Cola in response to the mistreatment of workers in its bottling plants.
21/04/03 - Frustrated in Fairford | As protestors gathered at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, Heidi Bachram reflected on her previous visits to this air force base where US B-52 bombers used in the Iraq offensive are stationed.
08/04/03 - In Memory of Iraq | For many years Felicity Arbuthnot has written and campaigned about the impact of war and sanctions on the people of Iraq. One of the last visitors to leave Baghdad before war began, she remembers the buildings, great and small, now being destroyed in the country she loves.
28/02/03 - Proud to be British | On the 15 February march in London, Jeremy Seabrook had a strange sensation, as though ancient and creaky machinery that had lain unused for years had suddenly started into motion.
24/02/03 - Millions March Against War | As US and UK military preparations continue for a looming war with Iraq, millions of people around the world took the streets to voice their opposition.
16/02/03 - Anti-War protests in Adelaide, Australia | Over 50,000 people walk the streets of Adelaide in song towards government house to protest against Australia's involvement in the war against Iraq.
13/02/03 - Diplomacy knives West Papua | Conference on West Papua draws Indonesian government's ire. Chris Richards reports.
10/02/03 - 'Not in My Name' | Derek Thorne met with some of the people who're going to be 'human shields' in Iraq in an effort to stop war.
01/02/03 - Asylum Seekers: How Detention will last more than just after school | Rowenna Davis writes about UK asylum policy.
30/01/03 - Reports from Porto Alegre | Hannah Crabtree interviews some participants of the World Social Forum.
23/01/03 - Across the Divide: Letter from Palestine/Israel | Katharine Maycock reports on her own experiences in the 'Occupied Territories'.
21/01/03 - Will Fairford become Blair's Greenham? | Update on the Greenham women who will be joining mass citizens weapons inspection at Fairford.
08/01/03 - Freedom jamboree: The Asian Social Forum | Mari Marcel Thekaekara reports from a regional gathering of the global-justice movement in Hyderabad.
16/12/02 - How to be reconciled with an oil-spill | Horatio Morpurgo writes from the devastated coastline of Galicia.
10/12/02 - GWI: The Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors are coming | David Ransom reports on the inspectors planned visit to the US Airforce base in Fairford, Gloucestershire, Britain.
28/11/02 - School of the Americas protest | Lissa Rees reports on the growing annual protest outside the 'School of the Americas' in the United States.
28/11/02 - Kuwait and see | Jack Fairweather reports on ambivalent attitudes to war with Iraq inside the country that knows what it has to fear from Saddam Hussein.
27/11/02 - UK Ethical Foreign Policy? | Has Britain's Labour Government delivered the ethical foreign policy it promised? Gideon Burrows reviews the evidence.
26/11/02 - Inside Iraq | Felicity Arbuthnot talked with the people of Iraq post Saddam Hussein's 100-per-cent electoral triumph - and left with a deep sense of foreboding.
26/11/02 - Saddam Hussein | Web-exclusive World-beater
14/11/02 - Florence | The gathering of tens of thousands at the European Social Forum (ESF) in Florence
31/10/02 - GATS documents | Leaked GATS documents mentioned in NI 347
17/10/02 - Bali, Indonesia | Bali, Bombs and Human Rights. By Chris Richards
30/9/02 - Washington DC, US | Mark Engler reports from outside the 2002 annual meetings of the IMF/World Bank in Washington DC.
28/9/02 - London, UK | David Ransom reports from the huge demonstration in London on 28 September 2002.
25/7/02 - Strasbourg, France | Vanessa Baird reports on No Border Camp in Strasbourg.
12/7/02 - Bhopal, India | A letter from Indra Sinha, pleading for justice for the victims of the Union Carbide gas disaster in India.
3/6/02 - Gujarat, India | A strange recklessness by Jeremy Seabrook.
26/4/02 - Le Pen, France | The shock of the obvious by Jeremy Seabrook.
7/2/02 - Porto Alegre, Brazil | A report from Porto Alegre, Brazil, where tens of thousands of activists from around the world gather for the World Social Forum to carry on the process of 'globalization from below'.
23/01/02 - Brussels | A report by Green MEP Caroline Lucas.
23/01/02 - FFD report | Report from the UN headquarters in New York.
17/10/01 - Peace rally | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) peace rally in London.
7/9/01 - Durban March | The streets of Durban widened and softened a little to make space for a new humanity.
18/7/01 - Genoa G8 | Four reports from the streets of Genoa.
3/7/01 - Narmada Valley | Press release on the Narmada Valley dam issue.
17/4/01 - Quebec City | Four reports from the globalization rallies in Quebec.
21/9/00 - Prague | Prague S26 World Bank / IMF protest rallies.
