Threatened by Chinese scientific and technological advances, the US has dragooned European countries through the North ...

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 ...

The modern failures of the United Nations are not an aberration – but a product of its imperial roots, argues Conrad Landin. So how can we create a functioning system for global co-operation? 'Take me ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...

Enticed to join an international energy agreement with a poor history on climate change, governments across the Global South could be exposed to expensive lawsuits from corporate investors. Juliet ...

S Bedford exposes horrific negligence at a Missionaries of Charity centre in India – and asks when the order will be brought to book. ‘Is nothing sacred any more?’ the American woman asked nobody in ...

On this page you can explore every past issue of New Internationalist magazine, going back all the way to 1973.

Can you really put a price on nature? Anthony Lang’at reports on a controversial scheme seen as innovative and beneficial by some and carbon colonialism by others. With majestic Mount Kenya to its ...

Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in many Indian cities. A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

Is aid just an extension of colonial economics? Or a lifeline for imperfect but necessary support systems? Firoze Manji and Pablo Yanguas go head to head on the thorny topic of development assistance.