Ranking 91st out of 170, Indonesia ranks high on the Gini index of inequality at 34.9 (Malaysia 40.7, UK, 32.4), reflecting a ...

Veolia has faced criticism in several different cities, and Grupo Agbar in Barcelona, for failing to adequately repair water ...

I’m here to meet Aqsa Arif, whose show at Edinburgh Printmakers runs until 2 November. Born in Pakistan in the 1990s, she ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

Adverts gleam with promises of transformation and transcendence – via material objects. Jean Kilbourne decodes this gigantic propaganda effort. A recent ad for Thule car-rack systems features a child ...

Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton. If you needed somewhere to meet for left-wing ...

It was a movement that reverberated on campuses from Cape Town to Oxford. Musawenkosi Cabe speaks to activists who were part of the high-profile push to decolonize universities and challenge white ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

What does it mean to be happy in a modern consumer society? John F Schumaker argues that our entire socio-economic system is designed to spew out citizens eternally in search of satisfaction. *‘The ...

John Hilary on the obscenity of using images of starving children to raise funds. In June 1981, New Internationalist published ‘Merchants of Misery’, a seminal article by Danish aid worker Jorgen ...