Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone

Links for campaigning and more reading on Borders.

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’.

Planet earth is not the same size for everybody. This infographic shows where you can travel to without a visa, depending on your nationality.

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

The threat of Brexit has caused great anxiety about the return of a ‘hard border’ in Ireland. Yet it’s minority communities who have the most to fear, writes Luke Butterly.

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.

Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

Governments are increasingly using surveillance and big data to track immigrants. Gaby del Valle reports from the US, where activists are trying to hold data-mining firm Palantir to account.

Data-snatching, AI and eye-spy: some of the new technologies undermining migrants’ rights.

Thousands of former ISIS foreign fighters and their families are held in Kurdish camps in Syria. Hundreds have escaped during the recent Turkish offensive. Most European countries refuse to repatriate them, but Kosovo is bringing its citizens home. Sara Manisera reports.

Ever since Hurricane Irma struck in September 2017, residents of Barbuda have been trying to defend themselves against those who would cash in on their misfortune. Gemma Sou hears what they have to say.

Wolfgang Sachs wrote a seminal series of essays for the New Internationalist in 1992 called ‘Development: a guide to the ruins’. The concept of development lives on – and takes on new shapes as it is reframed by the UN, reinterpreted by the Vatican or hijacked by authoritarian populists to serve their own nationalist agenda. But, he argues now, we need to move beyond its misguided assumptions into a new post-development era based on eco-solidarity.

The invisible green warriors by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

The cries of a discontented world, by Nanjala Nyabola.

Leonardo Sakomoto tackles a topic close to his heart: modern-day slavery.

Report from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The newest movement against climate degradation.

Report from Zimbabwe by Wallace Mawire.

Report from Norway by Husna Rizvi.

Report from Syria by Karlos Zurutuza.

Report from Pakistan by Husna Rizvi.

Report from Qatar by Barney Cullum.

Wedding bells; Behrouz freed; Lula livre.

Praise, blame and all points in between? Give us your feedback.

Yewande Omotoso moves through the unknowable city, looking and listening.

Caught in the middle

Saudi Arabia’s woman-washing campaign.

In solidarity with protests in Lebanon.

Solid rock by Glen Le Lievre.

The photos, facts and politics of Thailand.

Sudanese political activist, pioneer feminist, and the first female MP in all of Africa and the Middle East. Illustration by ILYA.

Few argue that the mass movement to combat inertia on the climate crisis has a point. But is it going about it the right way? Chay Harwood and Marc Hudson, both environmental campaigners, go head to head.

Cartoon on profits by Marc Roberts.

As ecological collapse looms, our growth-at-all costs economic system urgently requires a different vision. Renegade economist Kate Raworth is preaching a new mindset fit for the challenges ahead. She spoke to Hazel Healy.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Four key findings from climate polls of 2019 by Danny Chivers.

Cartoon by P J Polyp.

Togo’s Faure Gnassingbé keeps up a dubious family tradition.

Already dead, by Kate Evans.

During climate crisis, is flying still acceptable? Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

A socialist became president of the USA? Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.

Endland; The Return of the Russian Leviathan; Secrets and Siblings; Corregidora.

Parasite; No Fathers in Kashmir.

Amazones Power; #FAKENEWS.

Rahila Gupta speaks to the first female poet laureate of Jamaica, who explains how poetry is ‘a source of hope and consolation’ in ‘scary times’.