Illustration: Maarten Wolterink

Open Window

Where to hide? by Maarten Wolterink (Netherlands).

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Borderlines

Borderlines

Sail away. Report on the humanitarian crisis in the central Mediterranean by Ben Cowles.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Borderlines

Borderlines

Not welcome here. By Charlotte Rubin.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
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Borderlines

Stuck in limbo, by Amy Hall.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Ladi (left), pictured with a relative, a Congolese Mavrovouni resident is feeling the pressure.Photo: Sebastian Skov Andersen

Rule of silence

A hard-line regime in Greek refugee camps is making life harder for the migrants within them, as well as aid workers who want to help. Sebastian Skov Andersen and Gabriel Geiger report.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
All images accompanying this article are from Bihać, Bosnia, close to the border with Croatia. 
Worldly goods: an Afghan asylum-seeker with blankets and a sleeping bag donated by a local NGO, January 2021.  Due to their existence in unheated makeshift shelters, refugees often risk hypothermia and serious illness.Photo: Michele Amoruso

Beaten back

The vicious game of hounding out asylum-seekers in Europe continues in defiance of international law. Katie Dancey-Downs reports.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Exit denied: Palestinian workers disinfect a mosque as a preventive measure amid fears of the spread of coronavirus, in Gaza, which is under blockade by Israel.Photo: Majdi Fathi/Nurphoto/PA

Covid-19: Those most at risk

Husna Rizvi writes that informal settlements and refugee camps are perhaps the most dangerous places of all.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Photo: Ben Cohen

Spotlight: Kyla Simone Bruce

Subi Shah speaks to film-maker Kyla Simone Bruce.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Illustration: Denise Nestor (figures) and Amel al-Zakout (background scene)

Who do you save?

Syrian artist Amel al-Zakout nearly drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after her boat capsized en route to Greece. Volunteer lifeguard Gerard Canals was part of the rescue operation. Hazel Healy put the two in touch with each other to speak for the first time since the shipwreck.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Speak out

Speak out

A network of solidarity exists among and alongside those who move, and stay, without permission. Hazel Healy profiles three initiatives. ‘Is it fair that Europe walks as it wants in Africa but not the opposite?’ ‘Once you help, you cannot close your eyes’ ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Borderlines

Borderlines

A look at a study that shows how photos of migrants can influence the political behaviour of those who view them.

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NI 518 - Building a new internationalism - March, 2019
Tolossa Asrat, editor of Kanere, poses with a local Turkana girl in Kakuma refugee camp, northwest Kenya.Photo: Sally Hayden

Kenya: refugee reporters

Sally Hayden reports on a fully independent, refugee-run news outlet in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

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NI 518 - Building a new internationalism - March, 2019
Rescued but fearful: these are images of sub-Saharan women brought ashore from the Alboran Sea to the port of Motril near Granada by maritime rescue teams. Whether draped in red blankets or clinging fast to a railing after their time on the waves, uncertainty is written on every face.Photo: CARLOS GILL / SOPA IMAGES / GETTY

For women seeking refuge in Spain, a trail of peril awaits

The stories of women migrants making the desperate Mediterranean crossing to Europe are different from those of the men, marked by a higher level of exploitation and abuse. Lucia Benavides reports from Spain.

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NI 518 - Building a new internationalism - March, 2019
Photo: Alex Mateo / Alamy

Hall of Infamy: Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s ‘refugee drowner-in-chief’, is put under the spotlight.

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NI 517 - Trade in Turmoil - January, 2019

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

In 1987, the British government contracted a passenger ferry to act as a floating immigration detention centre for Tamil refugees. Later that year a storm set the ship loose from its moorings. Felix Bazalgette reports on the the little-known story of exodus and empire that paved the way for the Windrush scandal.

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NI 516 - The dirt on waste - November, 2018
What if... people could migrate freely?

What if... people could migrate freely?

Vanessa Baird looks ahead at how things could be.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Clockwise from top left: The historic market in the northern town of Tripoli; all smiles at a political rally in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square; rubbish dumped on the road in north Beirut – the country’s garbage-collection system has collapsed; and a family of Syrian refugees in a UN camp near Zahle, in the Bekaa Valley.   All photos from Alamy and (in the order above) by Mark Pearson, Geoff Dunlop, Char Abumansoor and François Razon.

Country Profile: Lebanon

Civil war, ISIS invasions, mountains of rubbish. Never a dull day in Lebanon. The country’s constant turmoil is exhausting, says Reem Haddad, reporting from Beirut.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
Where is home? A Rohingya refugee takes a moment’s pause, shortly after arriving in a makeshift camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh, last September. She is one of over 670,000 people to have fled over the border from Myanmar since August 2017. The high numbers and sheer rate of arrivals make this the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world.Photo: Enamul Hasan/Drik

Rest for Rashida

The treatment of Myanmar’s Rohingya people has been seen as a genocide in the making. Parsa Sanjana Sajid visits those trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
An Eritrean teenager stuck in Shagarab refugee camp, Sudan. Is EU money keeping him there?Photo: Sally Hayden

Between Sudan and a hard place

Eritrean refugees who try to escape into neighbouring Sudan are caught up in a deadly stand-off between East Africa’s big powers – as European Union (EU) money aimed at keeping them there continues to roll in all the while writes Sally Hayden.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
A communal bunk for Sudanese refugees who have taken shelter in south Tel Aviv, Israel.Photo: Edward Kaprov/ASAblanca via Getty Images

No promised land

As of February, Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers have begun receiving deportation notices from the Israeli government. What awaits them is either a prison sentence or a journey to Libya’s ‘brutal’ camps, as Nishtha Chugh reports.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Decolonize now September, 2023
Palestine July, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Vaccine equality May, 2021
The fight for clean air May, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Building a new internationalism March, 2019
Building a new internationalism March, 2019
Building a new internationalism March, 2019
Trade in Turmoil January, 2019
The dirt on waste November, 2018
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
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