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There are between 5,000 and 7,000 languages in use today, but every fortnight one of them goes extinct.

For decades Kurds in Turkey were banned from using their own language. Do recent government concessions reflect a genuine change of heart? Naila Bozo investigates.

Nora Marks Dauenhauer was born in 1927 into the Tlingit aboriginal nation of Alaska. A poet, short-story writer and scholar, she has dedicated much of her life to preserving and promoting the Tlingit language.

Jo Lateu explains why the world's minority languages matter for all of us - and why we should be fighting for their survival.

Hazel Healy looks at two monster US-led free-trade deals.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is an occupational hazard for activists on the frontline, says Amy Hall.

If you think the trade on human organs just needs proper regulation, read Nancy Scheper-Hughes’ exploration of the options.

Principles for protection.

A report from Kosovo on the skullduggery of an international gang of medical criminals and the tortuous road to bring them to justice. By Selvije Bajrami.

Hanneke Hagenaars, a transplant co-ordinator for deceased organ donors in the Netherlands, speaks about her liaison work with soon-to-be-bereaved families.

Stories and opinions from those with personal experience of the organ trade.

A forensic examination of the persistent problem of trafficking vulnerable people for their organs, and what it would take to stamp it out, by Nancy Scheper-Hughes.

Persecuted in Pakistan for being 'non-Muslim', the Ahmadi community has sought refuge abroad. But intolerance is not easily escaped, as Samira Shackle discovers.

Nadja Wohlleben’s photos capture Lebanon’s silent constitutional revolution.

Tim Gee visits Ecuador to uncover the reasons for the failure of the much-heralded initiative to ‘keep the oil in the ground’, and discovers a new wave of activism that could yet secure the future of the national park.

Sandhya Srinivasan writes from India on the curious tale of Dinesh Thakur and the generics maker Ranbaxy.

Heaven help military personnel who blow the whistle. Alexa O’Brien is tracking the case of Chelsea Manning.

Whistleblower Ian Taplin investigates whether exposing banking malpractice has got any easier.

The cleric who exposed sex abuse in Uganda’s Catholic Church talks to Patience Akumu.

Psychoanalyst David Morgan on what makes some people risk all to speak out.