Features

Politicians taking a tough stand on immigration want to keep us in the dark – but Dinyar Godrej explains why we have to hear the stories of those turned away at our borders.

Investigating the truth can be deadly for Russia’s journalists, as Tina Burrett discovers.

After Copenhagen’s dismal failure, social movements from all over the world gathered in Bolivia – here's what happened.

Even the young are not exempt: a Costa Rican schoolgirl recalls the day Canadian immigration officers arrested her.

John ‘Bosco’ Nyombi was removed from Britain to months of fear and persecution as a gay man in Uganda. Eventually, a British judge ruled his removal illegal and ordered that he be brought back. He tells Dinyar Godrej about his journey.

John 'Bosco' Nyombi sought sanctuary in the West from persecution in Uganda – only to spend eight years struggling for his rights.

The facts and figures of deportation around the world.

Twelve years of sanctions and seven years of occupation have taken their toll as Iraqis struggle with wrecked infrastructure and continuing insecurity.

Anarchy, violence and nostalgia for a golden age mark Iraqi politics in the run-up to the elections.

In a country of widows, women have borne the brunt of years of war, sanctions and occupation.

War and underfunding have decimated Iraq’s public health system, once the best in the Arab world.

Iraqi Christians, once a million strong, face persecution in a post-secular society.

Despite fatwas and foreign troops, the show in Iraq must go on.

Hadani Ditmars returns to a country where ongoing conflict underscores a humanitarian disaster.

From banks to pipeline routes, refineries to courthouses, meet the activists and communities at the frontline of resistance.

The international campaign to shut down the tar sands is shaping up to be an iconic battle, reports Jess Worth.

There are tar sands deposits all over the world. Mika Minio-Paluello visits two of them.

Simple things you can do NOW, and a directory of films, books and organizations.

Zoe Cormier meets two indigenous people for whom this fight couldn’t be more personal.

Vast reserves of the black stuff are bringing the country nothing but trouble, argues *Andrew Nikiforuk*.