Features

Prices through the roof, a gaping deficit, homelessness, one billion in slums and an urban takeover.

Human rights lawyer Dianne Post and writer and filmmaker Bishakha Datta go head-to-head.

The fallout the property bubble is mass homelessness. Melissa García Lamarca records how public anger has galvanized the movement for housing justice.

Used to justify Western military in North Africa, we have not been told the truth about the Tiguentourine attack reveals Jeremy Keenan.

A home of one’s own is best built with the help of others. Samir Jeraj outlines three models of housing that can beat the tyranny of the marketplace.

Homes are for living in – so why are they sites of great insecurity? Dinyar Godrej makes the case against the scandal and delusion of the property marketplace.

World progress 1970-2010

The Guatemalan indigenous rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our 1993 issue.

The Iranian women's rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our March 2007 issue.

Some Mongolians believe their warrior-hero will return from the dead in 2027 to restore their country. Others aren’t willing to wait that long – and are taking on modern-day menaces themselves. Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons discover a nomadic people fighting for their past, and future.

In 2000, the UN summit agreed the Millennium Declaration – aspirations for the new century. Are we on target to meet them by 2015?

In 1992 New Internationalist published Wolfgang Sachs’ seminal series of essays Development: A Guide to the Ruins. Two decades on, he looks at how globalization gave the concept of ‘development’ an unexpected new lease of life – and argues that the 21st century needs to outgrow the idea for the sake of both the poor and the planet.

The leader of the Housewives’ Committee in Bolivia 1979.

The Indian activist who's been writing for New Internationalist for almost 25 years.

The nonviolent resistance activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our 1997 issue.

The founding editor of the New Internationalist, Peter Adamson, looks at how the world has changed since the magazine started – and argues for a new push against inequality.

Cambodia, a ‘sweatshop-free nation’? Try telling that to its expolited workers, writes Heather Stilwell.

Some rich people are all for it. Nick Harvey reports on the growing desire for tax justice.

In spite of global financial crisis, the numbers of super-rich people in the world has grown - and so have their fortunes.

Why are indigenous leaders at odds with their communities in the struggle to conserve their forest homes? Jane Monahan travels to Ecuador to find out.