New Internationalist

for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org Probably by mistake, a tiny bird flies up to my balcony in the busy, restless city and looks me in the eye. Is it sheer sentimentality that floods me with joy? Why does it feel like a visitation? I

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Jack Lo Lau is an awardwinning Peruvian journalist focused on indigenous communities’ rights, socioenvironmental conflicts, and natural territories and wildlife. Seirian Sumner is a Professor of Behavioural Ecology at University College London specia

Congratulations on NI 528. Excellent in so many ways. I do, however, think that the cover photo of a black carer (doctor or nurse) ought to have stated who she is, given her a name, an identity. Leaving her anonymous confirms the impression that care

As countries increasingly slam the door on travellers from low-income countries, there are some migrants who are actively courted: ‘high-value’ people with access to large sums of capital. Bulgaria and Cyprus both offer ‘citizenship by investment’, a

The bespectacled, 57-year-old Arce swept to power in Bolivia on 18 October 2020 as the presidential candidate of the leftist Movement for Socialism (MAS). His total vote share – over 55 per cent – surprised even the most ardent of MAS partisans. His

Agricultural and food lobbyists have fought long and hard over the tedious (but enormously consequential) fine print on food labelling. In a more recent skirmish, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that fast food outlet Subway’s bread was in fact not brea

Argentina’s strict lockdown measures have seen an outpouring of solidarity for queer tango in Buenos Aires. Edgardo Fernández Sesma, LGBTQI+ activist and queer tango teacher, has advocated for social inclusion and sexual and gender diversity in his h

Father Hovhannes, the priest at the ancient monastery of Dadivank, is determined to stay put ‘whatever happens’. He spoke to New Internationalist as Kalbajar, the area surrounding the 9th-century monastery, was about to pass into Azerbaijan’s control

Environmentalists in Zimbabwe are celebrating after the government banned coalmining in all the country’s national parks. Two Chinese firms had previously been given a licence to explore for coal in Hwange, Zimbabwe’s largest reserve, which is a hub

African Biodiversity Network africanbiodiversity.org Indigenous knowledge, ecological agriculture and biodiversity-related policy Convention on Biological Diversity cbd.int Multilateral biodiversity agreement Convention on International Trade in Enda

The whooping crane, a migratory species that traversed between sites in the US and Western Canada, had all but died out by the mid-1940s, with just 21 birds remaining. Habitat loss and indiscriminate hunting had just about done it in. Hunting the bir

LEADER: President Alberto Fernández ECONOMY: GNI per capita: $11,200 (Bolivia $3,530; United States $65,760) Monetary unit: Peso Main exports: Soya, oil and gas, corn, wheat, cars. Argentina is notorious for its economic instability and inflation is

While the country’s elites protest a proposed wealth tax to assist pandemic relief, the working-class poor are being left destitute in increasing numbers. 99%. Argentina has a strong tradition of public education and university is free. State and act

It is intellectually dishonest of the 191 countries Rynhart cites to make ‘promises’ they have no intention of keeping. But New Internationalist is quite right to give the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) airtime. One (perhaps unintended) consequ

KEHINDE: Transatlantic slavery was pivotal in the efforts to build what we now think of as the West. It was hundreds of years of slaughter, enslaving millions of Africans – turning us into commodities – in order to create unparalleled wealth for the

As I write, Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono is locked up in a highsecurity prison in Harare, again. Dragged through the courtroom in leg irons, Chin’ono’s crime was using Twitter to criticize Zimbabwe’s government, apparently in breach of his

At a civilian event in Texas, in May 2019, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro saluted a US flag, military style. Then he said: ‘Brazil and the United States above everything’ – echoing his campaign slogan ‘Brazil above everything’. That scene of subs

As India staggers on under the Covid-19 pandemic, the fallout for working people has been devastating. Between April and June last year the economy underwent a massive unplanned contraction of 23 per cent. Millions lost their jobs; farmers and day-wa

Tamara’s early life is overshadowed by conflict and tragedy. Her father cannot escape his own childhood memories of war and hunger. Her mother is addicted to painkillers. They tell her that history is for those who have no present, yet Tamara instinc

Not long ago, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was fighting for his life in a German hospital, following a poisoning attempt almost certainly ordered by Putin, the bargain basement Borgia. Poisoning as an assassination method has become the p

If you do an image web search for the letters XR, the standard abbreviation for the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, in the hope of finding the iconic hourglasscircle logo, you are confronted with picture after picture, page after page, o

Julio Etchart, several times detained under the 1973-85 dictatorship in his native Uruguay, escaped into exile in Britain and became an international photojournalist. This book is his affectionate tribute to George Orwell, a guiding spirit throughout

Q: I love the odd beer and in recent years have become a bit of a connoisseur, as well as starting to brew my own. Those who have tried it have been very complimentary about my beer. I’m really fed up in my current line of work and this could become

How well are countries doing in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) they signed in 2015, designed to put the global economy back into balance with nature by 2030? The obvious place to look is the United Nations’ Sustainable Development G