February 2004's Issue
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Equality's Progress
It’s been a tough time for equality. But is it really ‘an endangered species’, as some have suggested? Vanessa Baird takes stock.
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Feb 2004
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Defixiones, Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead
Defixiones, Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead by Diamanda Galas
- Louise Gray
- 1 Feb 2004
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Modern Jihad - Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
Modern Jihad - Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks. By Loretta Napoleoni.
- Phil England
- 1 Feb 2004
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Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. By Austin Clarke.
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 Feb 2004
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The Barbarian Invasions
The Barbarian Invasions. Written and directed by Denys Arcand.
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 Feb 2004
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Gem in a world of rocks
What the co-op movement can do for equality, by Costa Rica’s former President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias Sánchez.
- Oscar Arias Sánchez
- 1 Feb 2004
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Polyp's Big Bad World – February 2004
President Bush’s al-Qaeda recruitment drive.
Odysseys
The 12th and final instalment of Eduardo Galeano’s Windows series: Odysseys.
- Eduardo Galeano
- 1 Feb 2004
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Another coinage
Jeremy Seabrook counts the emotional costs to migrant labour in a globalized world.
- Jeremy Seabrook
- 1 Feb 2004
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Do we really want equality?
Writer and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips asks some tricky questions.
- Adam Phillips
- 1 Feb 2004
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Sebastião Salgado
The funeral of seven Mexican peasants killed by rightwing paramilitaries, by the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
- Sebastião Salgado
- 1 Feb 2004
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Measures of Equality - The Facts
Equality - and its opposite - cannot be measured in numbers and calculations alone. Nevertheless the statistics can be quite revealing.
- 1 Feb 2004
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Satellite wars
The al Jazeera satellite TV station has changed Arab people’s perception of the world. Its runaway success has spawned a host of imitators, as Reem Haddad explains.
- Reem Haddad
- 1 Feb 2004
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The self I will never know
Genital mutilation of intersex children occurs on a daily basis. Esther Morris explains why it must stop – and why intersex needs to become the ‘gay rights’ of the 21st century.
- Esther Morris
- 1 Feb 2004
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Bare-faced women remain a rare sight in Kabul...
Report from Jamila Mujahed
- Jamila Mujahed
- 1 Feb 2004
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Each in their place
There’s caste and there’s class. And in some places the two intertwine. Mari Marcel Thekaekara writes from India, where the struggle for Dalit rights is gathering strength.
- Mari Marcel Thekaekara
- 1 Feb 2004
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Betrayal
Two years after the liberation of Afghanistan, are its women really free? Report from Mariam Rawi.
- Mariam Rawi
- 1 Feb 2004
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I was born white
Mark Minchinton undertakes a journey back to his – and his country’s – Aboriginal roots.
- 1 Feb 2004
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Strong & smart
Teacher Chris Sarra is turning upside-down ideas about what Aboriginal kids can and can’t do.
- Chris Sarra
- 1 Feb 2004
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You get proud by practising
A poem by Laura Hershey, poet and disability activist.
- Laura Hershey
- 1 Feb 2004
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