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Portent of doom: a penguin covered in oil following a spill off the coast of South Africa. Photo: Martin Harvey/Alamy Stock Photo

The duty to care for our common home

Femke Wijdekop makes the case for Ecocide to become a crime under international law.

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 Illustration: Donough O’ Malley

The Disrupted

Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.

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Just too dear: sometimes despite energy being available it can be unaffordable. This mother in  Soweto, South Africa, protests against the prices of state utility Eskom. Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

The energy fix

What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.

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Switched on

Technology, whether low or high, needs to be appropriate and within reach to make a difference.

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Male baldness v malaria?

Simon Trace on the skewed priorities of medical research.

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Facts - Mind the technology gap

Technology can be a big enabler – yet the difference in terms of what’s available to rich and poor is vast.

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Women of the Nicolás Bravo community demonstrate their methods of selecting corn plants for seeds during an agroecology training course, Chiapas, Mexico.  Photo: Nils McCune

'Because the river told me'

Peasant farmers resisting the violence of agribusiness. By Nils McCune.

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Charge your phones here: this man displays the board of sockets which helps him earn his livelihood in Nigeria’s Katsina city. Many vendors invest in small solar units to generate the power. Photo: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters

Technology as if people mattered*

The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.

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Rêve Générale to Panama Papers

From France to Iceland, two seemingly disparate movements converge around the same dream, writes Jamie Kelsey-Fry.

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Children of war. Photo: Janeb13 under a Creative Commons Licence.

Regional conflicts overshadow Iraqi mental health

When looking at the Middle East, all attention is focused on Syria right now, writes Sophia Akram.

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Also out there...

Also out there...

More reviews from the April 2016 magazine.

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Mixed Media: Books

Angry White People by Hsiao-Hung Pai; A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare; The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker; How Did We Get Into This Mess? by George Monbiot.

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Malawi Mouse Boys in emotive action – beats selling roasted field-mice.

Mixed Media: Music

Forever Is 4 You by Malawi Mouse Boys; Wa Di Yo by Lakou Mizik.

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Dheepan – a man of many talents.

Mixed Media: Films

Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard; The Measure of a Man, directed by Stéphane Brizé; Our Little Sister, directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu.

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 Photo: Martin Twomey

A word with Shazia Mirza

Comedian Shazia Mirza reveals her inspirations, fears and political passions.

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The duty to care for our common home

Femke Wijdekop makes the case for Ecocide to become a crime under international law.

Femke Wijdekop May, 2016 492 Read
The Disrupted

Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.

Jim Thomas May, 2016 492 Preview
The energy fix

What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.

Ruth Nyambura May, 2016 492 Preview
Switched on

Technology, whether low or high, needs to be appropriate and within reach to make a difference.

Dinyar Godrej May, 2016 492 Preview
Male baldness v malaria?

Simon Trace on the skewed priorities of medical research.

Simon Trace May, 2016 492 Preview
Facts - Mind the technology gap

Technology can be a big enabler – yet the difference in terms of what’s available to rich and poor is vast.

May, 2016 492 Preview
'Because the river told me'

Peasant farmers resisting the violence of agribusiness. By Nils McCune.

Nils McCune May, 2016 492 Preview
Technology as if people mattered*

The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.

Dinyar Godrej May, 2016 492 Preview
Rêve Générale to Panama Papers

From France to Iceland, two seemingly disparate movements converge around the same dream, writes Jamie Kelsey-Fry.

Jamie Kelsey-Fry April, 2016 491 Read
Regional conflicts overshadow Iraqi mental health

When looking at the Middle East, all attention is focused on Syria right now, writes Sophia Akram.

Sophia Akram April, 2016 491 Read
Also out there...

More reviews from the April 2016 magazine.

April, 2016 491 Read
Mixed Media: Books

Angry White People by Hsiao-Hung Pai; A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare; The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker; How Did We Get Into This Mess? by George Monbiot.

New Internationalist Editorial April, 2016 491 Read
Mixed Media: Music

Forever Is 4 You by Malawi Mouse Boys; Wa Di Yo by Lakou Mizik.

Louise Gray April, 2016 491 Read
Mixed Media: Films

Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard; The Measure of a Man, directed by Stéphane Brizé; Our Little Sister, directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu.

Malcolm Lewis April, 2016 491 Read
A word with Shazia Mirza

Comedian Shazia Mirza reveals her inspirations, fears and political passions.

Jo Lateu April, 2016 491 Read