Features

While governments are sealing borders and erecting walls, ordinary people are offering support and shelter.

Patience Akumu explains that some African countries host large numbers of refugees.

Reem Haddad reports on how Christian Palestinians in Lebanon have welcomed Muslim refugees from Syria.

Ruben Andersson investigates the murky world of border security.

This infograph from the January-February 2016 New Internationalist magazine offers the big picture view of who, why, and where people flee to.

On the frontlines of the refugee crisis in Lesvos, Hazel Healy finds loss, humanity – and answers.

Avaaz is triumphant, but the Paris Agreement promotes the kind of policies that have failed us so far, write Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Samir Dathi.

Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Icelandic Pirate Party Parliamentarian, shares her impressions about her visit to France during the climate negotiations.

The Paris Agreement shows how powerful nations have imposed their will at the climate negotiations, writes Clemente Bautista.

Global South struggles against climate change need to be placed at the heart of our campaigns, writes Samir Dathi.

The Sámi are the indigenous people of Northern Scandinavia and were in Paris with other indigenous to fight for climate justice. Ragnhild Freng Dale explains.

La Via Campesina’s agro-ecology and food sovereignty offers one possible path toward climate justice, writes Marienna Pope-Weidemann in part one of this two part series.

Millions of hectares of forest are threatened by coal mining, warns Saskia Ozinga.

Activists in Paris are laying out inspiring visions for a fair and sustainable future – with the help of 196 stolen bank chairs, writes Samir Dathi.

Development in the industrialized world has come at a high price, writes Mohamed Adow.

As rich countries declare ‘ambition’ while racing to weaken the text, some climate justice campaigners are turning their backs on the COP21 negotiations and looking elsewhere for hope, reports Morgan Curtis.

Visiting Paris from Gambia, Saiba Suso explains the politics and euphemisms that climate negotiators use and that conceal how the talks impact lives.

What makes a climate leader? For all of us gathered here at COP21, it becomes increasingly evident with every passing day, writes Morgan Curtis.

Yet another draft Paris agreement was released Wednesday, and was immediately renounced by civil society, Adam Greenberg reports.

The ‘high ambition coalition’ is really about undermining developing world groups, argues Nick Dearden.