African civil society is getting results, reports Dismas Nkunda.
June 2007's Issue
The UN calls it ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’. But what is causing the violence in Darfur, and why hasn’t the world acted to stop it?
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Salaam Darfur
Moataz El Fegiery and Ridwan Ziyada challenge the Arab world’s silence.
- Moataz El Fegiery and Ridwan Ziyada
- 1 Jun 2007
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Antigua and Barbuda
When new Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer moved into Antigua’s government offices in 2004, his predecessors had bequeathed him a scene of desolation. Wilmoth Daniel, his deputy, explained that they found ‘the drawers open – all the files were removed like a thief in the night … What a shame of those individuals in authority to [remove] all those files, the soul and heart of the country.’
- David Thorley
- 1 Jun 2007
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Myths of the Global Market
How the free market destroys life, by John McMurtry.
- John McMurtry
- 1 Jun 2007
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Helga Kohl
A ghost town of sand, as seen by Namibian photographer Helga Kohl.
- Helga Kohl
- 1 Jun 2007
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The landscape of the future
Urvashi Butalia on a cityscape of the future.
- Urvashi Butalia
- 1 Jun 2007
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Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh
A letter from inside prison by Iranian women’s rights campaigner Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh.
- 1 Jun 2007
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Green America Steps Up
Day of action across the US demanding carbon cuts
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Jun 2007
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Earth summit
Thousands gather in Guatemala for the Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Jun 2007
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Supersize me cruising
Demand grows for mega-cruiseships holding 10,000 tourists
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Jun 2007
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The African cinema lion roars!
Ten day festival of African cinema in Burkina Faso.
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Jun 2007
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Healthy competition, anyone?
Logging company director charged with incitement to commit murder
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Jun 2007
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What next?
The future for the world can look bleak, dominated by technological and corporate power. But what if resistance to it won through? Pat Mooney tells a story illustrating how things might unfold differently between now and 2035.
- Pat Mooney
- 1 Jun 2007
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Sick of promises
Jess Worth encounters a Darfurian community that’s demanding answers.
- Jess Worth
- 1 Jun 2007
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