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AMY HALL for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org I was doomscrolling through social media when an ad caught my eye. ‘The LGBTQ+ community aren’t just part of our community, they’re part of us,’ said the British Home Office tweet. The sho

Christina Ivey is environmental policy editor at independent climate change magazine It’s Freezing in LA! She lives in Kingston, Jamaica and also writes about mental health and the Caribbean. Kieron Monks is a feature writer for outlets including CNN

Accounts: Katalin Szombati Administration: Mary Murray Advertising: Michael York Design: Andrew Kokotka Editorial (Magazine and Website): Dinyar Godrej, Amy Hall, Hazel Healy, Conrad Landin, Husna Ara Contributing editors: Vanessa Baird, Chris Brazie

@newint are doing what a lot of publications fail to do – discussing Roma experiences & #humanrights, and giving a platform for Roma voices. FIL SYS ON TWITTER Fantastic to see Left media like @newint diving deep into the contemporary persecution of

People, not numbers Invoking a looming climate-related migration ‘crisis’ has become increasingly common. But evidence suggests that the rhetorical strategy around large numbers of ‘climate migrants’ may not only be backfiring – with border security

Although it seems unlikely, Honduras is now emerging as the bright spot in a Central American region with an all too well-deserved reputation for corruption and authoritarianism. The 62-year-old Castro, the first ever woman president and a democratic

A viral tweet has exposed what can only be described as the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ of cheap fashion apparel, whereby dunes of unsold stock have piled up throughout the Atacama Desert in Chile. Almost 40,000 tonnes of unsold clothes from US mar

Before attending a strike at Nagaworld Casino in January, Chhim Sithar cropped her hair short and photographed herself holding a placard stating, ‘I am imprisoned after demanding Naga Corp respect union rights’. The union leader at the luxury Hong Ko

SINCE THE PANDEMIC BEGAN THE WORLD’S 10 RICHEST MEN HAVE DOUBLED THEIR WEALTH 99% OF HUMANITY ARE WORSE OFF Source: Oxfam ■

In December a group of Zimbabwean activists unfurled a banner in the grand hall of the Natural History Museum in December, demanding the repatriation of human remains. The activists believe that the skulls of spiritual leaders Mbuya Nehanda and Sekur

The pristine golden sands of Black Johnson beach, dramatically backed by dense tropical rainforest on one side and the vast blue expanse of the Atlantic Ocean on the other, are one of the most spellbinding sights in Sierra Leone. But this slice of pa

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has finally agreed to drop the Sackler name from its exhibition spaces, following extensive scrutiny of the wealthy family ‘artwashing’ its involvement in the US opioid crisis. The Sacklers founded Perdue Pharma,

Rather than offer a skin-deep glance at complicated global issues, we delve deeper with an in-depth focus on a different theme in each edition. We provide both the background and the solutions to the current state of affairs, from multiple perspectiv

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Poor and marginalized people are the most targeted by legislation around things like homelessness and theft. On the African continent alone, at least 42 countries have laws, often dating back to colonial rule, on ‘petty offences’ such as loitering or

On a recent Uber ride in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital, my driver told me about his three other jobs. On the weekends, he worked as an air conditioning repair technician. He also tended to a small plot of land in the countryside to grow food for his fa

LEADER: Prime Minister Andrew Holness. ECONOMY: GNI per capita $5,231 (Barbados $17,380; United Kingdom $42,130). Monetary unit: Jamaican dollar. Main exports: aluminium, bauxite, hard liquor, sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Jamaica maintains a hugely ne

Inequality in Jamaica is lower than most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, but nearly a quarter (23%) of the population lives below the poverty line, a figure that was already on the rise prior to the pandemic. Jamaica’s literacy rate sta

TOBY: When we talk about humanitarian aid, we mean support that focuses on the immediate needs of people and communities struck by conflict or disaster. It’s different to development aid, which concentrates on governments, infrastructure and broader

When, at the end of last year, Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko lured hundreds of people into Belarus, with the unspoken promise of free passage to the European Union through Poland, it fuelled yet another refugee crisis on Europe’s border

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In December 2021, storms killed at least 26 Brazilians in southern Bahia state and left nearly 100,000 people displaced or homeless. This is the kind of extreme weather event that environmental activists and scientists have in mind when they speak ab

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In January 2021, stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui was arrested just as he was about to start a gig at a café in Indore, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in power. A group of men, led by

by Eloghosa Osunde (Fourth Estate, ISBN 978 0008498016) 4thEstate.co.uk Eloghosa Osunde prefaces her debut novel with: ‘There are simple and good and straightforward and well-behaved people, I’m sure. But this is not a book about them.’ On the face o

Continual cumulative growth is the central hegemonic pillar of mainstream economics. Growth – an accelerating frenzy of material production and economic activities – is seen as the only guarantor of security and abundance for all. It actually achieve