How we make poverty

Links for campaigning and more reading on poverty.

Why is hunger growing in a country known as an agricultural powerhouse? Amy Booth reports from Buenos Aires.

Poverty between – and within – nations doesn’t just exist. It is created and needs constant maintenance. Warning: extremely violent content. Words: Dinyar Godrej.

Tax havens in the Global North enable the systematic looting of the Global South. John Christensen explains how their activities impoverish the world.

Vanessa Martina Silva considers the track record of Brazil’s flagship Bolsa Família, the world’s largest conditional cash transfer scheme.

The globalized garment industry is as ruthless as they come, creaming off huge profits while paying workers a pittance. Trade unionist Anannya Bhattacharjee from the Asia Floor Wage Alliance is pressing the case for a living wage. She explains to Dinyar Godrej that the changes needed are surprisingly small – yet vehemently resisted.

Dinyar Godrej ponders what a global minimum wage might look like.

For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on the line.

An epic struggle has been playing out between islanders defending their land, rivers and livelihoods and the Malaysian government’s vision of ‘development’. Veronique Mistiaen spoke with Peter Kallang, the campaigner in the thick of it.

Images from the migrant route through Mexico, where desperate people risk a journey fraught with danger to try to make it to the US. Text and photos: Pablo Allison.

Skipping meals to talk to the media, aiming to get arrested – and still making it to your hockey game. These are just some of the tasks found on the to-do lists of campaigners in Canada who are putting everything on the line to fight for a liveable, just future. Lucy EJ Woods went to meet them.

A war against indigenous people, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

Tolerance in the most holy city by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Confessions of a frequent flier by Nanjala Nyabola.

Update from Bolivia by Amy Booth.

Richard Swift on the former prime minister and social democratic leader of Croatia.

Report from Nigeria by Angelica Udueni.

Report from Palestine/Israel by Aaron Drapkin.

Report from Australia by Cam Walker.

Report from Italy by Alessio Perrone.

Report from Pakistan by Husna Rizvi.

Arctic is a no-go zone, says Goldman Sachs; SÍ, se puede!; Plastics giant punished.

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Yewande Omotoso reflects on why no-nonsense Johannesburg is the place that suits her best.

Chechens denied by Nils Adler.

Filtered air.

In solidarity with protests in India.

Mother Whale by Mahnaz Yazdani (Iran).

The photos, facts and politics of Pakistan.

The global oligarchy problem by Darryl Cunningham.

Prisons damage people and have always been used by the powerful to control the most marginalized. But when some criminals undoubtedly pose great danger to others, can society really do away with incarceration altogether? Kelsey Mohamed and Andrew Neilson go head to head.

Fresh hell by Kate Evans.

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

At first glance he seems to have the credentials to even-handedly lead the always-problematic OAS.

Taking a stand against mining corporations can cost you your freedom – and even your life – in Peru. But that does not deter indigenous human rights defender Virginia Pinares. She tells Vanessa Baird why.

Wildlife Alliance AGM, by Marc Roberts.

Climate action in a hostile environment. Words by Danny Chivers.

Fake news, by P J Polyp.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

We got our attention back?

The Living Days; The Birds They Sang; Low; Becoming Human Again.

Misbehaviour; The Perfect Candidate.

Wild Wild East; The Karen Dalton Archives

Subi Shah speaks to film-maker Kyla Simone Bruce.