Features
Articles about Features, ordered by date. 
Land Grabs - The Facts
Big land deals are forcing people from their homes and damaging livelihoods.
The smallholders’ last stand
A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.
Coming back from the brink?
India’s vultures nearly went extinct. Graeme Green on the efforts to save them.
Tales of taboo
Breast ironing is seldom talked about, but the practice has a devastating effect on the girls in whose communities it is performed. Amy Hall investigates.
Dreams deferred
Property remains red hot in China – a safe bet for the urban élite, a distant dream for the working underclass. Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore reports.
Housing - THE FACTS
Prices through the roof, a gaping deficit, homelessness, one billion in slums and an urban takeover.
Argument: Should prostitution be legalized?
Human rights lawyer Dianne Post and writer and filmmaker Bishakha Datta go head-to-head.
Resisting evictions Spanish style
The fallout the property bubble is mass homelessness. Melissa García Lamarca records how public anger has galvanized the movement for housing justice.
Algerian gas plant terror: the real story
Used to justify Western military in North Africa, we have not been told the truth about the Tiguentourine attack reveals Jeremy Keenan.
Joining hands
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.
Safe as houses?
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.
Where are they now? Rigoberta Menchú
The Guatemalan indigenous rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our 1993 issue.
Where are they now? Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
The Iranian women's rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our March 2007 issue.
Waiting for Chinggis
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.
Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, the UN summit agreed the Millennium Declaration – aspirations for the new century. Are we on target to meet them by 2015?
Liberating the world from development
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.
Where are they now? Domitila Barrios de Chungara
The leader of the Housewives’ Committee in Bolivia 1979.
Where are they now? Mari Marcel Thekaekara
The Indian activist who's been writing for New Internationalist for almost 25 years.
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