Features

Shoma Chaudhury on the hate mongers intent on tearing up the very idea of India.

Faith schools get a bashing even from committed multiculturalists. We talk to one supporter who currently teaches English at a secular school in Australia.

Canadian multiculturalism is in rude health and has licked the kinds of problems that crop up in other countries. Haroon Siddiqui explains how.

A divided society needs new answers and new identities, argues Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

With Dinyar Godrej, whose personal journey as an immigrant reveals some of the faultlines of multiculturalism, making the case for looking beneath the smokescreen of ‘culture clash’.

Campaigns, contacts and resources.

How free-market fundamentalism brought the world to its knees

Recession heads South – and meets resistance.

As the empire of international finance collapses, David Ransom finds the chance to reset the compass towards democracy, equality and the survival of our planet.

Organizations currently campaigning on maternal mortality.

Mariama lost two babies in childbirth - because she had no help. This is her story.

Poem by Margaret Atwood

Pilirani Semu-Banda meets a young woman from Malawi who thought her life had been ruined by giving birth – until she heard about a simple operation.

A visual memorial to the 61 mothers who die every hour, by artist Rowena Dugdale.

Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world. And behind every death there is a poignant story – told here by a sister, a husband and by photographer Jean Chung.

There is a bigger gulf in experience between the Global North and the Global South in maternal death rates than there is on any other human development measure. The average lifetime risk of maternal death in the rich world is 1 in 8,000, compared with 1 in 850 in developing countries and 1 in 450 in least developed countries.

Why are so many women still dying in childbirth? Chris Brazier explains how they could be saved.

Unless it is fair, we will never get a successful international climate agreement. Tom Athanasiou has rolled up his sleeves and produced a proposal for how it could be done.

David Ransom examines the impact so far on the Majority World.

How the financial, social and environmental crises collide – the opportunities and the dangers. Susan George and Walden Bello get the debate going.