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Successful actor and would-be human rights lawyer Juliet Stevenson on the disgrace of locking up children, and the importance of good-story-telling.

Why are we so bad at celebrating our successes? It's time to step back and commemorate a remarkable year says Mark Engler

John Jordan and Isa Fremeaux up sticks and head for their utopia ‚ even if it doesn't yet exist.

Fed up with being fleeced, North Americans are flocking to co-operative savings societies. Wayne Ellwood reports.

Big Bad World, Only Planet plus guest cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh from Palestine.

The first independent country of the Americas-but Eduardo Galeano asks will Haiti ever be free?

More than 30,000 Bedouin, which the Israeli government call 'squatters', face eviction to make way for settlements, reports Libby Powell.

We watched, we read, we listened: New Internationalist's favourite films, books and music from last year.

A small group of islands with a long history

Renewable energy mega-projects are causing environmental damage and mass displacement says Joyce Nelson.

As the African National Congress turns 100, Brett Scott criticises its failure to share South Africa's prosperity with the poor.

Changes in Burma over the past year have been astounding, but as the country celebrates 64 years of independence, its people remain far from free.

Films, books and music from around the world reviewed.

The future is unknown, but we can learn on the job, says Maria Golia.

In Malawi fear of reprisals silences journalists over press freedom.