Society

New Internationalist will soon be tackling the thorny issue of drug legalization and we want your questions and comments on how it could be done. 

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With record female unemployment and cuts to women’s services, campaigners are looking to international law to stop the squeeze. Charlotte Gage reports.

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An ‘anti-untouchability’ video project is raising awareness of the crimes against dalits which blight Indian society, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

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Producer/Director Katharine Round explains how you can help bring the message about equality to the screen. 

Filed in: Equality Film

It’s the poor and vulnerable who will suffer in the ideologically motivated rush to convert schools to academies, says Chris Brazier.

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Poor people need aid but it needs to be targeted and the structures that perpetuate global inequality must also be tackled, says Natasha Adams.

Filed in: Africa Aid Food Hunger NGOs Poverty United Kingdom

Massaging the truth for a good story doesn’t help reshape reality, argues Mgcini Nyoni.

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In some Indian communities a girl’s first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

Filed in: India Indigenous Peoples

An interview with Danny Chivers on how corporations are greenwashing themselves and attempting to hijack the Rio+20 UN conference.

Filed in: Climate Change Corporations

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

Filed in: Crime Human Rights Norway United Kingdom United States

Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?

Filed in: India Sexual Politics