Indigenous protestors rally against APEC and high food prices in the ancient Peruvian capital of Cuzco. Photo by Miguel Araoz Cartagena

Food last!

Across the world, popular protest has demanded adequate food and fair prices. Stephanie Boyd reports from Cuzco in Peru.

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Farmers try to scratch out a living in Ethiopia’s remote south Wollo province – no corporate saviours here.  Photo by Boris Heger / Report Digital

Profits in hungry times

Agribusiness and industrial farming: 10; farmers and the famished: nil. A report from the campaign group GRAIN.

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Suicide watch for a farmer in India’s Maharashtra State: the escalating food prices of 2008 have done little to ease the distress of the world’s small farmers. Photo by GMB Akash / Panos

Year of living dangerously

Richard Swift on the hard edge of hunger in a year of perpetual crisis. Action – a new diet for the world food system.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008

The Opium Bank

A canny village woman talks to NI.

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NI 417 - Through Afghan eyes - November, 2008
Agriculture – on which most Afghans depend – has been neglected.Ali Omid / Aina Photo Agency / Afghanistan

Where has the money gone?

Abdul Basir on the missing aid billions.

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Hearts and minds

Afghan views on WHAM – a key strategy of the coalition forces’ war against the Taliban. Pictures from AINA’s gallery.

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A scene from AH5787, which is touring the country in pursuit of justice.FROZAN

Theatre of justice

Drama is helping victims, writes Hadi Ogal.

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NI 417 - Through Afghan eyes - November, 2008

The blight of impunity

Human rights activist Horia Mosadiq takes her Government to task.

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NI 417 - Through Afghan eyes - November, 2008
Massoud Hussaini / Aina Photo Agency / Afghanistan

Afghanistan - The Facts

The basics, conflict, aid & social equality in Afghanistan.

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NI 417 - Through Afghan eyes - November, 2008
Elaborate trade-offs: women may agree to lose one basic freedom in order to gain another.Parwiz / Aina Photo Agency / Afghanistan

Beyond the burqa

Sex, dating and the struggle for modernity.

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A brief history of Afghanistan

The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change

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Western troops must use different methods and strategies to stop harming civilians.Gulbuddin Elham / Aina Photo Agency / Afghanistan

Losing Afghans

How to lose friends and alienate people, by Kabul defence journalist, Khabaryal.

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Adaptability is plentiful, as this family in Herat Province demonstrates. But after seven years of occupation, where is Afghanistan heading?Fardin Waezi / Aina Photo Agency / Afghanistan

Afghanistan on the edge

And the West acting like it knows best... again. Isn’t it time we listened to Afghans, asks Vanessa Baird?

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REUTERS / Stringer

Rebels with a cause

Popular rebellion has often accompanied oppressive taxation. Almost all the protests were against taxes that ignored the ability to pay. Here are just a few examples.

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NI 416 - Wanted! For dodging tax justice - October, 2008
A supporter of Germany’s Green Party reacts to first exit polls of German general elections in Berlin.REUTERS / Petr Josek

Why ecotaxes may not be the answer

Tax will, sooner or later, have to follow the environmental agenda. Nicola Liebert reports on mixed experiences so far, even in Germany. Top dodger: The British Monarchy

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NI 416 - Wanted! For dodging tax justice - October, 2008
Peter the Great trims a taxpayer’s beard in a contemporary Russian cartoon.All images: Mary Evans Picture Library

A short history of TAXATION

A history of the eternal fate of taxation: to be the abused or abusive means towards noble or ignoble ends, never quite able to escape its association with extortion and war.

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NI 416 - Wanted! For dodging tax justice - October, 2008
People join hands outside UN building in Bangkok to commemorate International Day for Eradication of Poverty.Sukree Sukplang / Reuters

Tax the richest: why are we waiting?

As the UN goes in search of more funds to eliminate poverty, David Hillman reckons he knows where they’re hiding. Top dodger: Tesco

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NI 416 - Wanted! For dodging tax justice - October, 2008
Tax Injustice – the facts

Tax Injustice – the facts

The measure of just tax is the ability to pay. The world’s tax system today is unjust, shifting the burden from rich to poor – and failing altogether to address the green agenda. Here are the facts and figures.

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NI 416 - Wanted! For dodging tax justice - October, 2008
The Turmoil, registered in George Town, Cayman Islands, moored outside Citigroup’s office in Dublin, 9 June 2008.John Christensen

Can pay.. won't pay!

How John Christensen made a banker hide his head in his hands in the tax haven of Jersey. Top dodgers: Leona Helmsley, The Prince of Liechtenstein

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Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Wanted! For dodging tax justice October, 2008
Wanted! For dodging tax justice October, 2008
Wanted! For dodging tax justice October, 2008
Wanted! For dodging tax justice October, 2008
Wanted! For dodging tax justice October, 2008
Wanted! For dodging tax justice October, 2008
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