Columns / Currents
Articles about Currents, ordered by date. 
Named and shamed
Countries across the globe that are flouting international law and violating refugees’ rights.
Vulture culture
Time to close down the investment companies that feed off the living
Carbon cowboys
No international agreement exists on reducing emissions from forests, but that hasn’t stopped companies attempting to profit from it
Goodbye to Guy
Guy Stringer, director of Oxfam, chair of Devopress who initially published New Internationalist magazine in 1974.
Making me crazy
The treatment of Afghans with mental illness is only adding to their trauma.
Unpopular poplars
Environmentalists oppose the genetically engineered poplar trees for the production of cellulosic ethanol or industrial biofuel.
Absolute friends
The largest solidarity movement between two peoples offers hope in Western Sahara, writes Paul Rigg.
Dirty diplomacy
Concern over the Canadian Government's handling of Canada’s tar sands
Denial and dismissal
Despite growing evidence, the Kenyan Government evades accountability for murder
Cargill exposed
Transnational food company found modifying all its rice to evade price controls
A pressing issue
Belarusian journalists ‘gagged’ by draconian censorship laws
Taken for a bride
Saudi judge upholds the arranged marriage between an eight-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man.
Lock out the poor
In Rio, a wall is being built to separate the slums from the city
Running scared
No reprieve for gay community living with 30 years of sharia law
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