Where are they now? Rigoberta Menchú

Where are they now? Rigoberta Menchú

The Guatemalan indigenous rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our 1993 issue.

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Street scene from central Cairo. All photographs by Maria Golia.

Country Profile: Egypt

The country’s last 150 years reflect a dynamic process, part of the greater human quest for fair self-governance.

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Polyp’s original illustration for Sachs’ 1992 series of essays called ‘Development: a Guide to the Ruins’. The face on the Sphinx is that of Harry Truman, the US President who coined the idea of  ‘underdevelopment’ in a 1949 speech. He saw greater production as ‘the key to prosperity and peace’ and the US as ‘pre-eminent among nations’.

Liberating the world from development

In 1992 New Internationalist published Wolfgang Sachs’ seminal series of essays Development: A Guide to the Ruins. Two decades on, he looks at how globalization gave the concept of ‘development’ an unexpected new lease of life – and argues that the 21st century needs to outgrow the idea for the sake of both the poor and the planet.

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Photo by: David Mercado / Reuters

Where are they now? Domitila Barrios de Chungara

The leader of the Housewives’ Committee in Bolivia 1979.

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Photo by: Varsha Yeshwant Kumar

Where are they now? Mari Marcel Thekaekara

The Indian activist who's been writing for New Internationalist for almost 25 years.

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Where are they now? Aminatou Haidar

The nonviolent resistance activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our 1997 issue.

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