Features
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Cuba's big bet
It sounds perverse, but in the shadow of the US embargo, Cuba is building a gigantic port and free trade zone... Vanessa Baird looks into the issue.
'Sex is too important to me'
Vanessa Baird explores how life has changed for LGBT people.
The 'shame' of pale and male
Sexism and racism get official recognition in Cuba. Vanessa Baird explores an issue that's long been kept silent.
Making space
Cuba is inching towards a free media and political choice - or not. Vanessa Baird explores.
Winners and losers
The streets are alive with micro-enterprise. Who benefits? asks Vanessa Baird.
A new Cuba in the making
The communist island is opening up for business. Vanessa Baird begins an investigation into what's going on - and what it means.
An indivisible and living whole, from the mountains to the sea
A New Zealand river has been granted unprecedented legal rights after a century of Maori pressure. Jen Wilton reports.
How Mother Teresa is torturing Kolkata
S Bedford exposes horrific negligence at a Missionaries of Charity centre in India – and asks when the order will be brought to book.
Bunker economics
Phillip Pilkington on the delusion of worshipping the gold standard.
View from the ridge
Jewellery designer Jane Theobald's meditation on the true price of the shiny stuff.
A tale of two Indias
How sinking cash into gold is rocking the country's economy and deepening the wealth divide, by Jaideep Hardikar.
The myth of ethical gold
Certification schemes notwithstanding, clean gold is a bit of a scam, says Stephanie Boyd.
Churning up the cloud forest
Roxana Olivera on a Peruvian community's struggles to defend its rights against a mining corporation's dirty tricks.
Gold - the facts
Where does it come from? Who buys it? What do they do with it? What do they do with it? And the impacts of it.
Stop the gold rush
Richard Swift argues that our appetite for the shiny metal is both pointless and dangerous.
‘We’re fighting for a change’
The TV cameras have long departed, but four years after the earthquake, Haiti remains a country in crisis. Brian Fitzpatrick and Michael Norby report from Port-au-Prince on how hunger and violence rule the roost in a situation nearing boiling point.
When propaganda rules
Powerful, persuasive words and images in Ukraine’s information war have led to casualties of truth on all sides. Lily Hyde observes how, as Crimea and East Ukraine break away, a war of words turns lethal.
Feminist book club
Bloggers, activists and artists share their favourite books.
Virtuous woman or raunchy sexpot?
Ikamara Larasi dismantles one-sided caricatures of black women in pop culture.
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