Features

He is repeatedly attacked by both sides in the Syrian conflict, but Abdullah Al Khateeb sees no reason to quit. By Erin Kilbride.

Hired thugs won't stop S Mugilan. The South Indian activist talks to Sibi Arasu.

Alicia Cawiya, an indigenous activist prepared to defy the powerful to save Ecuador’s Yasuní, talks to Linda Etchart

We turn the focus inwards to mark our 500th edition.

Alessio Perrone gets the inside story on our Community Share Offer.

What makes people brave? Vanessa Baird takes a look at an under-examined quality that can change the world.

Stories and photos you may have missed in the last 12 months. Compiled by Jo Lateu.

Mariama’s sons are all trying to make their way in the wider world. But how do you explain to Africans that the rich world is now shutting its doors to migrants?

When rich and poor worlds collide, money is inevitably a problem.

The latest instalment in the lives of Adama, his four co-wives and their 26 children.

Former military pilot François Moné has taken on the traditional role of Chief. He explains how he is using this to pursue the development of the village.

A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming; technology; and women.

How the village has grown - and some facts about how things have changed.

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.

There are ways to change the irresponsible system of tax avoidance, as Niko Block demonstrates.

New Internationalist dissects the language of high finance with low motives.

Alain Deneault explains how states legalize tax fraud.

Dan Hind explodes the self-righteous excuses of tax cheats.

Tax avoidance is a worldwide system involving many destinations and layers of financial manipulation. We chart a few of the strands to show who wins and who loses.

Tax avoidance has its most pernicious effects in the Global South. Stephanie Boyd reports from Peru.