Even educated women in Kabul consult street sorcerers.Gulbuddin Elham / Aina Picture Agency Afghanistan

I put a spell on you...

NI gives the inside story on how male sorcerers are keeping women down in Afghanistan.

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010
A Maoist woman in the jungle of Chhattisgarh. Shailendra Pandey

Arundhati Roy – princess to pariah

Arundhati Roy's fierce critiques of Indian democracy have made her public enemy number one. But, argues Shoma Chaudhury, her story is that of contemporary India itself.

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010
We don't really have a democracy Jon Molinari

We don't really have a democracy

Tony Benn, Caroline Lucas MP and Agent Bristly Pioneer reflect on this year's UK election

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010
Residents from the shanty city of El Alto, Bolivia, are famously unafraid to speak truth to power.Jose Gomez / Reuters

The beauty of Big Democracy

Vanessa Baird celebrates the joys of disenchantment and the birth of hope.

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010
Crops of truth

Crops of truth

Jaideep Hardikar travels to the bottom of the social scale, and the women of rural south India, to discover where knowledge and wisdom about seeds are still to be found.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
Merchants of death!

Merchants of death!

The troubling story of a corporate bid to take control of the world’s food supply, told by Sue Branford.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
Damaris Nzioka in her fields; escaping the grip of ‘the main players’.Isahu Esipisu

Surviving climate change

In many African societies seed preservation was once an almost sacred duty. Isaiah Esipisu explains why it is becoming vital again.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
Seeds of Medicago polymorpha (Toothed Bur Clover), native of the Mediterranean, now more widespread, help fix nitrogen in the soil.

Seeds - the facts

There are almost half a million known plant species, and more still to be discovered. Yet we now rely on just 15 to provide 90 per cent of our food crops.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
Michael Way collecting for the Millennium Seed Bank.RBG Kew

Seed savers

The world’s seed markets are being gobbled up by ‘life-science’ corporations – but peasant farmers still feed the world. David Ransom reports.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
The front cover of a recent issue of the French anti-growth magazine, La Décroissance.

Vive la décroissance

Julio Godoy talks to French de-growth guru Serge Latouche.

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NI 434 - Life beyond growth - July, 2010
A smiling worker from Lehman Brothers hits the street minutes after the bankrupt company closed its doors, September 2008.Joshua Loft / Reuters

Workers of the world, relax

Slowing growth could help us work less, live better and save the planet. So what’s not to like about that, wonders Zoe Cormier.

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NI 434 - Life beyond growth - July, 2010
Oops, no brakes!

Oops, no brakes!

Without growth the economy collapses. What’s the solution? Rowenna Davis asked Oxfam’s Duncan Green and researcher Tim Jackson for their opinions.

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NI 434 - Life beyond growth - July, 2010
‘Our land is not for sale’. Campesinos in Ecuador’s Intag Valley oppose foreign mining companies.MALCOLM ROGGE / AACRI

Coffee in the clouds

Roxana Olivera looks at local opposition to foreign mining companies in Ecuador.

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NI 434 - Life beyond growth - July, 2010
Nature's bottom line Eddie Keogh / Reuters

Nature's bottom line

Economic growth is an idea whose time has passed, argues Wayne Ellwood.

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NI 434 - Life beyond growth - July, 2010
Climate camp activists at Blackheath: ‘We recognize that the causes of climate change are systemic.’Toby Melville / Reuters

System change, not climate change

Jess Worth looks at how activists in Britain are broadening the climate change debate.

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NI 434 - Life beyond growth - July, 2010
Land of the free? Juan Sacaria Lopez – here boarding a deportation flight from Arizona – is just one of 4,200 unauthorized migrants removed each week from the US.Carlos Barria / Reuters

Deported – what happened next?

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.

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
Professional hazard: murder

Professional hazard: murder

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

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
Summit different: report from Cochabamba Ben Powless

Summit different: report from Cochabamba

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

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
'I was in an art class'

'I was in an art class'

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

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010

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A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Life beyond growth July, 2010
Life beyond growth July, 2010
Life beyond growth July, 2010
Life beyond growth July, 2010
Life beyond growth July, 2010
Life beyond growth July, 2010
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
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