Society / Human Rights
Articles about Human Rights, ordered by date. 
And finally: Uri Fruchtmann
The filmmaker and director tells Jo Lateu why he supports activists who expose wrongdoing through video.
Meet the firms cashing in on imprisoning foreigners
Outsourcing detention to private companies is a recipe for a disaster says Antony Loewenstein.
Why are we locking up migrants?
Detaining foreigners is costly, inhumane and on the rise. Time to turn the tide back, says Hazel Healy.
'Everybody preferred children'
Combating child prostitution in Brazil is more urgent than ever – especially with the expected influx of foreign tourists for the 2014 World Cup, writes Olivia Crellin.
Is this the end of the road for universal human rights?
Stephen Hopgood thinks so. He explains why.
Blue Dragon to the rescue
Girls are being trafficked from Vietnam into China and forced to work in brothels or sold into marriage. A tiny number get away, or are rescued by activists from Blue Dragon. Phillip Martin reports.
Letter from Botswana: Africans, too
The humanity of some of the country’s citizens is often denied by tongue-clucking moralists, finds Wama Molefhe.
Ghosts on our own land
Gigantic palm oil plantations across Indonesia and Malaysia are having a devastating impact on local farms and workers, too. Ollie Milman reports from Sumatra.
Trans revolutionary
Today Argentina leads the world in recognizing the rights of transgender people. But it hasn't always been that way, writes Vanessa Baird.
‘Not one step backwards!’
Argentina has come a long way in dealing with its past. But what of the present? Vanessa Baird takes a look at the state of human rights.
Argentina’s challenge
Stormy time ahead in the world’s largest country. Are there lessons to be learned? asks Vanessa Baird.
Where are they now? Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
The Iranian women's rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our March 2007 issue.
Where are they now? Domitila Barrios de Chungara
The leader of the Housewives’ Committee in Bolivia 1979.
Where are they now? Mari Marcel Thekaekara
The Indian activist who's been writing for New Internationalist for almost 25 years.
Where are they now? Aminatou Haidar
The nonviolent resistance activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our 1997 issue.
Civil society crackdown in Ethiopia
As Ethiopia joins the UN Human Rights Council, Laetitia Bader hopes its own rights abuses will be put under the international spotlight.
Indigenous organizations to sue Peru over Amazon gas project
David Hill reports on the legal move to protect isolated indigenous peoples at risk of ‘extermination’ by the country’s biggest ever hydrocarbons project.
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