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

In today’s major global conflicts – in Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan – the UN’s role has largely been in the area of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Who doesn’t love a tale of courage? They pop up in all cultures, traditions and eras. From shepherd-boy David facing giant Goliath, to Gilgamesh defeating the monster Humbaba, to Harry Potter and ...

They’re either Libyans or migrants but all of them have at least one thing in common: they’re black. It’s a stigma which makes life even harder in a country where chaos is the only rule, reports ...