September 2007
Issue No. 404
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Trafficked
Vanessa Baird examines the global trade in girls and young women sold into the sex industry.
Use my name
From Moldova and Nigeria, survivors tell their stories to Louisa Waugh.
Meet the traffickers
Victor Malarek shines a light on people who sell people.
Sex trafficking – the facts
The Facts
Knowing the difference
Bishakha Datta goes to the heart of a highly polarized debate.
‘I never want to be rescued again’
Some anti-trafficking measures are doing more harm than good, argues Melissa Ditmore.
Stop Traffick!
Creative ideas from around the world.
Action, contacts and resources
Action, contacts and resources.
News, views, and & voices
Special Feature
India’s Viagra -
Special Economic Zones
India wants to follow in the footsteps of China, popping miracle pills to raise the country up to export-led superstardom. What Dionne Bunsha, Maureen Nandini Mitra and Jayati Ghosh discover is a little less uplifting.
Currents
A Death in Durban
Death of a South African environmental activist
Another damned dam
Laotian villagers become guinea pigs in a vast and risky resettlement process
Court convicts over child soldiers
Sierra Leone war crime convictions
Living wage campaign launched
North American workers unite behind idea of hourly minimum wage
Oh, Mandy
Mandelson and EU riding roughshod
PR for the planet
PR practitioner shames his colleagues
Youngest Afghan politician banned
Listen to Malalai Joya on Radio New Internationalist
Summer Seriously Roundup
True tales of a mixed-up world
Big Bad World
Offset your carbon emissions
Polyp suggests a new way to resist climate change.
Worldbeaters
Robert B Zoellick
Robert B Zoellick has finally reached his Promised Land as World Bank President. What can we expect?
Mixed Media
BOOK: Acting From the Heart: Australian advocates for asylum seekers tell their stories
edited by Sarah Mares and Louise Newman
MUSIC: Alevanta!
by Benjamin Escoriza
BOOK: From Outside In
Refugees and British Society
BOOK: How the World Came to Oxford: Refugee stories past and present
by Rori Carnegie and Nikki van der Gaag
FILM: Lady Chatterley
directed by Pascale Feran
BOOK: No-One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the US-Mexico Border
by Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis
FILM: The Dusty Foot on the Road
by K'Naan
BOOK: Towards a Promised Land
by Wendy Ewald
FILM: Waitress
written and directed by Adrienne Shelley
Tatiana Cardeal
Street children reaching for fish in Nairobi, captured by Brazilian photographer Tatiana Cardeal
Guns and justice in the Niger Delta
Rebels in the Niger Delta have taken up arms – Ike Oguine explains what lies behind their resistance.
Country Profile
Costa Rica
Costa Rica stands apart from its Central American neighbours, not least because it has no army.
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Voices from the margins:
Multimedia: video, podcasts, and more.
- Poetry Slam in Zimbabwe
- The House of Hunger poetry slam held in Zimbabwe in 2006, and organised by the Pamberi Trust, showcased young artists performing inspirational work on issues from corporate power to child soldiers. The video features four of the poets.
Published by Pambazuka News.
- Iranian women speak out
- 3 March 2007, London. Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the US. Hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city. Click here to learn more about the campaign.
Produced by Heidi Bachram.
- Raised Voices audio:
- Benny from West Papua on Corporate Power
- Vinayan from India on agriculture
