Death

With capital punishment debatesresurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.…

Troy Davis' execution is yet another example of the US government's flagrant disregard for human rights, argues Jody McIntyre.…

Sierra Leone’s longest-serving female death row prisoner is released after eight years.…

On death row for murder and bank robbery, Wilbert Rideau became a journalist and won some of America’s most prestigious journalism awards…

Why are so many women still dying in childbirth? *Chris Brazier* explains how they could be saved.…

Gazans are fleeingfor their lives, but there is no escape from the shelling …

UN negligence is killing child refugees in Kosovo…

Positive outcome, but at a cost of seven campaigners lives, killed by police during a demonstration against the GCM coalmine in Bangladesh.…

Inspired by the millions of people around the world who are celebrating All Souls Day this year, the Radio New Internationalist team dips into different cultures to hear the many ways in which the world's populations honour their dead and respect the dying…

Death threat to global justice activists …