On 29 September, after a Houthi missile aimed at Tel Aviv was intercepted by Israeli air defence, Israeli fighter jets ...

The slide on the screen showed several skinny, dark Filipino men lined up, displaying their sacred wound, the kidney scar, long as a sabre slice across their convex torsos. More than 150 ...

Far from singular You might ask why the UN is to blame when the root causes of each of these failures lies elsewhere – generally with global superpowers and most frequently Western ones. The WHO’s ...

But the source of Felix’s seemingly progressive beliefs about women’s sexual pleasure pre-dates Kagame by hundreds of years. Our conversation is not about policy or the post-genocide recovery but ...

A company’s income can be lost in many ways. For example, policies reducing subsidies for renewable energy have led to a number of cases against the Netherlands. Germany’s push to phase out nuclear ...

‘Invasion’ of land Verra, the organization which certified the NRT carbon project has opened a quality control review and suspended its issue of credits. According to documents in Verra’s registry, ...

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 ...

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

A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The Municipal Corporation in Chandigarh pays a 22,044 USD per month to rent the watches. ASMA HAFIZ O n a cold November morning, in 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 ...

There are estimated to be some three million migrants and refugees in Libya, mostly Sub-Saharans. They wait and work toward their passage to Europe in a country which now has three governments – one ...

At least 28 Palestinian artists and writers have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s devastating bombardment of Gaza. It is a number that is easy to lose sight of given the wider horrifying ...