New Internationalist

DINYAR GODREJ for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org I once had the misfortune to meet someone who claimed that he found buying a stack of t-shirts from the uber-cheap retail giant Primark to wear for a couple of days each and then disc

Making Peace in a World at War (NI515) was brilliantly done. I was moved and inspired by its accounts of what local people are doing to build peace in the midst of extreme violence and loved its brief introductions to individual peacemakers. I though

The handsome 65-year-old former cricket superstar finally attained his long-held ambition to become Prime Minister of Pakistan when he was sworn in this August. Khan has made his reputation as a nationalist and a populist bent on wiping out corruptio

On 11 September, bailiffs in balaclavas violently evicted a squat occupied by housing activists in Dublin city centre. They arrived in a British-registered van listed as untaxed since August 2014 and enforced the eviction order, while Public Order Un

Security experts and ecologists are quick to claim that climate change will be the greatest driver of forced migration over the coming century. But social scientist Carol Farbotko has documented a different response from indigenous people in low-lyin

‘I didn’t come here to die,’ says Venezuelan Eduardo Blanquis, 21, as he recounts how Colombian beggars threatened to kill him unless he left their country. Earlier this year, the UN warned that Venezuela had reached a ‘crisis moment’, with at least

Love won over Nairobi cinema-goers in September as screens were packed to the brim for a week after censors lifted the ban on Kenya’s first queer film Rafiki – a feature originally accused of ‘promoting lesbianism’ by the Kenya Film Classification Bo

Global total of municipal solid waste. By 2050 this is expected to grow to 3.4bn tonnes. Industry generates 18 times more waste than households. In rich countries, the level of industrial waste is a staggering 42.6 kg/person/day. 3.5bn People lacking

The French law against food waste – a world first – came into effect on 11 February 2016 and was greeted with acclaim by the international press. The law forbids supermarkets to destroy or throw away products approaching their sell-by date. If the fo

LEADER: General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. ECONOMY: GNI per capita $2,170 (Cambodia $1,230, United States $58,270). Main exports: electronics, garments, crude oil. As wages and other business costs rise in China, foreign manufacturers are increasing

While recent decades have seen the birth of a new middle class, millions, particularly rural ethnic minorities, have been left behind. 93%. Education is supposedly free, but schools frequently levy fees that sometimes lock out the poorest students. 7

While everyone knows about Cambridge Analytica – the disbanded data analytics company that allegedly used its software to create and disseminate hateful and inciting messages – in relation to Trump and Brexit, the company also played a nefarious role

JOB: Leading high-tech entrepreneur and CEO REPUTATION: Snake-oil salesman for a corporate future First there was Bill Gates, then Steve Jobs. Now the latest corporate messiah to come out of Silicon Valley with all PR guns blazing is the iconoclastic

FIROZE: Since its inception, the logic of international aid from the West has been to integrate African economies into a global capitalist system, which relies on Africa’s resources for its own growth. The way aid is given has never fundamentally cha

As the Brexit shock swept across the UK, I was in search of a political ideology around which a coalition of the marginalized could be formed. On the face of it, the thinking of Blue Labour – a tradition with Catholic roots that sees itself as the gu

On the morning of Tuesday 28 August 2018, India’s democracy took one of its worst hits since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by the divisive, authoritarian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took office in 2014. Police in the state of Maharashtra ra

Women are ‘kept in their place’ in myriad ways – by economic discrimination, by legal structures that treat women as lesser beings, by denying them reproductive rights. However, it is violence, or the credible threat of it, that is by far the bluntes

Nigeria sits at both ends of the climate justice story. While the government gets around 80 per cent of its income from oil and gas extraction, large swathes of the population are on the frontline of the impacts of climate change. In my country, chan

by Anabel Hernández, translated by John Washington (Verso, ISBN 9781788731485) versobooks.com On 26 September 2014, a group of male students set out in a convoy of buses bound for Mexico City. They were travelling from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers C

In January, The Guardian reported that Amazon had patented designs for a new wristband. The device would not only follow the movements of company workers, but could track where they place their hands and ‘use vibrations to nudge them in a different d