Families are slowly melting away from the Bay of Bengal coastline as habitats degrade. Hazel Healy speaks to new arrivals on the edge of destitution in Dhaka.
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Ready or not: can Bangladesh cope with climate change?
New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy travelled there to find out how people are adapting to a warming world.
Filed in: Bangladesh Climate Change Land Water World Bank
- Hazel Healy
- April 1, 2012
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Putting the 'I' in ecocide
22 April is Earth Day. Should punishment be made to those personally responsible for destroying our planet?
- Jo Lateu
- April 1, 2012
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Boom Times in Bali
Life has changed on the ‘island paradise’- but foreign investment is not all it’s cracked up to be. Jamie James looks beyond the tourist brochures.
- Jamie James
- March 1, 2012
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Time to end feudalism in the Philippines
Farmers have always been badly treated – by landlords as by presidents. But could things be about to change?
Filed in: Land Philippines
- Iris Gonzales
- February 27, 2012
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‘Democracy does not apply to Aboriginal people’
To mark Australia Day on 26 January, Christoph Behrends talks to Aboriginal rights activist Michael Anderson about past and current struggles.
Filed in: Australia Human Rights Land
- Christoph Behrends
- January 25, 2012
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Israel evicts Bedouin villagers
More than 30,000 Bedouin, which the Israeli government call ‘squatters’, face eviction to make way for settlements, reports Libby Powell.
Filed in: Israel Land Minorities
- Libby Powell
- January 1, 2012
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Why Evo Morales did a U-turn on the TIPNIS Amazon highway
Georgiana Keate reports on a victory for indigenous people in Bolivia, who are forcing their president to honour his word.
- Georgiana Keate
- October 28, 2011
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Just chocolate
Grenada’s revolutionary fair trade
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- Dylan Mathews
- December 1, 2005
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