In shock after hearing of the London attack and a Bangalore assault, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on what could defeat hate of the ‘other’ and finally bring us together.

A small NGO is trying to link local communities and international networks to help Rio’s worse-off neighbourhoods, Ann Deslandes reports.

Chris Brazier's full interview with François Moné, the village's latest Chief.

Chris Brazier returns to the village in Burkina Faso that he has visited every 10 years since helping to make a film there in 1985.

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.

And will Sierra Leone be ready, should the virus return? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.

Though the deal was a dud, this was no Copenhagen, argue Jess Worth and Danny Chivers.

It’s in the air – and calling for a mindset reset. Vanessa Baird tracks the course of transgender rights and their liberating potential for us all.

Nonviolent activists are holding out in Syria, despite the destruction. Do not abandon them, says Daniel Adamson.

Muppets welcome Julia; Facebook pays up; Human rivers

Amnesty Interantional states that at least 10,000 Darfuri students have been arbitrarily arrested or detained since 2003, writes Maina Waruru.

In the absence of deterrent laws or decisive action by the authorities, hunters are killing the migrant birds on a large scale, reports Robert Ewan.

A Quiet Passion; The Salesman.

The Story of a Brief Marriage, Talking To My Country The History Thieves and others reviewed in this month's New Internationalist magazine.

A Common Truth by Satland; Les Amazones d’Afrique by République Amazone.

Amy Booth visits an event of festive solidarity in support of a desperate cause.

Veronique Mistiaen meets Afghanistan’s ‘mother of education’, who for more than two decades has been transforming lives through community-based learning.

Turkey’s president is one of the political class’s more humourless and intolerant specimens.

What do the numbers look like?

Somalia today is more like a political marketplace than a modern nation-state, writes Claire Elder.

Polyp's latest cartoon, from our June magazine.