Deadly errors

Deadly errors

120 Tudun Biri village civilians killed in northwest Nigeria by a drone, reports Promise Eze.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Anti-coup protesters confront police in Yangon, Myanmar, after the junta took over the country in February 2021.Photo: Xiao Long/Alamy

360° repression

Since seizing power in 2021, Myanmar’s military junta has expanded its use of surveillance to hunt down and jail its critics. Preeti Jha reports on the methods it employs and how anti-coup activists are adapting to the shrinking space for dissent.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
The faces of murdered militants. This demonstration took place in São Paulo on 27 July 2011, in front of a court where retired army colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra was being tried as part of a lawsuit brought by the family of journalist Luiz Eduardo Merlino. Ustra led DOI-CODI from 1970 to 1974 – Merlino was tortured and killed at the centre in July 1971.Photo: Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

The story of the bones

Decades on, the relatives of those disappeared under Brazil’s military dictatorship are finally getting some answers about what happened to their loved ones, but calls for justice are going unanswered. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia reports.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Illustration: Andy K/Shutterstock

Arming Europe

As European Union member states ramp up their military spending in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Juliet Ferguson and Paulo Pena of Investigate Europe explore who has the most to gain.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022

What if…

Armed forces were abolished? Symon Hill plots a path to peace

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
War and peace

War and peace

Dan Smith offers a snapshot of world trends from the 2020 State of the World Atlas.

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NI 528 - A caring economy - November, 2020
Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020.Photo: Feisal Omar/Reuters

Out of sight, out of mind

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Locals are still not allowed back to their neighbourhood in Sur, ravaged by the Turkish army and PKK militants in 2015, then flattened by bulldozers.Photo: Sertac Kayar/Reuters

Dreaming of Sur

Longing for a return to Turkish Kurdistan’s shattered city centre.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
The opportunities presented by melting ice are spurring the militarization of the Arctic. The US is among the nations planning to expand its fleet of icebreaker ships such as this one, pictured making its way to St Lawrence Island in Alaska.Photo: Accent Alaska

On thin ice

Is conflict in the Arctic drawing closer? Rather than spurring action on climate change, rapidly melting ice is creating more opportunities for geopolitical rivalry.

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NI 516 - The dirt on waste - November, 2018
Where is home? A Rohingya refugee takes a moment’s pause, shortly after arriving in a makeshift camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh, last September. She is one of over 670,000 people to have fled over the border from Myanmar since August 2017. The high numbers and sheer rate of arrivals make this the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world.Photo: Enamul Hasan/Drik

Rest for Rashida

The treatment of Myanmar’s Rohingya people has been seen as a genocide in the making. Parsa Sanjana Sajid visits those trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Catch! Will delivery drones really get aid to those who need it most?Photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters

The rise of the cyber-humanitarians

Aid-by-drone, what’s not to like? Plenty, as Nick Dowson explains.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Artist Kaya Mar with his satirical portrait Erdoğan, the Turkish Sun King – after France’s absolute monarch Louis XVI.Photo: PjrNews / Alamy Stock Photo

How Turkey’s citizens lost their rights

Turkish writer and analyst Hakki Mahfuz summarize the twists and turns that landed Turkey where it is today.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017

The dangerous dignity of war

Mark Engler asks why it only takes a bit of a bomb-dropping and sabre-rattling to rally the reporters and bestow a presidential aura on our leaders.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
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When petitions and protests aren’t enough: what next?

Andrea Needham, who 20 years ago was arrested for disarming weapons bound for Indonesia, argues for bold action for peace and justice.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
Gaza, February 2007.Photo by Marcin Monko

Universalizing environmental and human rights

As UN special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment presents his report today, Doug Weir explains why this is especially important in armed conflict.

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NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016
Stepping up: Lithuanian youngsters are being encouraged to regard defence as a responsibility.Photo: Ints Kalnins/Reuters

War nerves

Daiva Repečkaitė reports on the rise of all things military in Lithuanian society.

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NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015
Killing without counting

Killing without counting

Accountability for casualty numbers could be a thing of the past thanks to 'remote control' military tactics.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
Merkel the puppeteer: a mural in Lisbon, Portugal, depicts the Portuguese Prime Minister and Foreign Minister as the German Chancellor’s playthings.Rafael Marchante/Reuters

Debt, austerity, devastation: it’s Europe’s turn

The austerity prescription fattens the creditors and punishes the innocent. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to the desires of finance.

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NI 464 - Debt - a global scam - July, 2013

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
Railways September, 2022
Rivers of life July, 2022
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
A caring economy November, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The dirt on waste November, 2018
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
Global banking now May, 2015
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
Debt - a global scam July, 2013
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