Photo: Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (Kesan)

‘Peace means self-determination’

Revolutionary conservation is at the heart of the Indigenous Karen struggle in southeast Myanmar, as activist Paul Sein Twa explains to Lital Khaikin.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
World AIDS Day posters line a Johannesburg street on 1 December, 2018. Fatima Hassan become one of the foremost campaigners on public health in South Africa after working on legal protections for people living with HIV.Photo: Eva-Lotta Jansson/Alamy

‘Big Pharma is at peak power’

Fatima Hassan took on South Africa’s AIDS denialism – and won. Later, she turned her attention to ‘vaccine apartheid’ in the Covid-19 pandemic. Conrad Landin meets her in Cape Town.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Photo: Emma Hardy

‘I now understand how genocides happen’

Surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah talks to Bethany Rielly about healthcare as resistance and his experiences in Gaza’s besieged hospitals.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Photo: Emilio Madrid-Kuser

The Interview: Amitav Ghosh

Indian author Amitav Ghosh talks to Graeme Green about colonialism and the current opioid crisis.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Photo: Ruth McDowall/ActionAid

The Interview: Anna Scott

Anna Scott speaks to Ghanaian activist Abiba Nibaradun about her motivation to stop the forced marriage of girls.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Photo: Matt Writtle

The Interview: Sofia Karim

The outspoken artist and architect speaks to Subi Shah about what gets her fired up.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Photo: Sherbel Dissi

The Interview: Leila Khaled

Marta Vidal speaks with the Palestinian militant about the role of violence in the struggle for a better world.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Photo: Drona

The Interview: Vandana Shiva

The Indian physicist and veteran food sovereignty activist speaks to Amy Hall about a lifetime of keeping smiling while fighting the lies of the ‘poison cartel’.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Photo: Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann

The Interview: Ayakha Melithafa

The 19-year-old climate activist is making her voice heard across South Africa and beyond. She speaks with Uyapo Majahana about climate anxiety, life lessons and getting beyond tokenism.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
The Interview: Muhanned Qafesha

The Interview: Muhanned Qafesha

Frances Leach speaks to human rights activist Muhanned Qafesha about the life-and-death battle to defend his people’s land from illegal demolitions and settlements in Hebron, Palestine.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Photo: Paul Specht

The Interview: Mohamad Hafez

The Syrian-American architect and visual artist sits down with Louisa Waugh to discuss the power of nostalgia – and how his lifelong homesickness for Syria shapes his work.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
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The Interview: Mauricio Ye’kuana

Graeme Green speaks to the Indigenous activist about the dangerous fight to protect his people’s land from destructive mining in the Brazilian Amazon.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
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The Interview: Ndongo Samba Sylla

The Senegalese development economist speaks to Hazel Healy about monetary sovereignty, debt – and the perils of Afro-liberalism.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022

The Interview: Antoinette Nikolova

The Bulgarian director of the Balkan Free Media Initiative speaks to Jan Westad.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
Photo: Lori Barra

The Interview: Isabel Allende

Graeme Green speaks to the Chilean author about her inspiration and the power of fiction as a useful history teacher.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Photo: Sarah Yoon

The Interview: Susan Nakyung Lee

A newly formed citizen’s grouping – Global Assembly – wants a snapshot of humanity to air its views directly to policymakers at this year’s UN climate conference. Amy Hall speaks to one of its organizers, Susan Nakyung Lee, about the limits and potential of democracy.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
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The Interview: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Brazil’s former leader is the frontrunner in polls for the 2022 presidential election, well ahead of Jair Bolsonaro.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Photo: Regina Recht

Sayragul Sauytbay

What is the price of speaking out against China’s oppression of the Uyghur people? Sayragul Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh and Chinese national, talks to Alessio Perrone about being forced to teach propaganda in a concentration camp and fleeing to Kazakhstan.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini (bottom, centre, in white top) with women peace-makers from conflict zones from around the world at ICAN's 2018 Annual Forum in Sri LankaPhoto: ICAN

The Interview: Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini

Indefatigable Iranian gender activist Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini on why she will not give up on her life-long mission to get women peace-makers included at the negotiating table.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Photo: Michael Fakhri

The Interview: Michael Fakhri

Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has a bold vision for a trade system that reflects how people actually eat.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Election year September, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Decolonize now September, 2023
Palestine July, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Land rights November, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Rivers of life July, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
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