Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic

Covid-19 related research and advocacy groups to support.

Can we rescue the notion of global health from the jaws of the pandemic? asks Dinyar Godrej.

How to finance a Green New Deal that is truly global? Fadhel Kaboub has a proposal that builds in colonial and climate reparations.

As Covid-19 spread across the world, greenhouse-gas emissions plummeted, thanks to a reduction in human activity. But meanwhile, writes Amy Hall, some of the world’s most polluting companies and industries have been using the pandemic to maintain and even ramp up their environmentally ruinous activities.

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

Our dysfunctional food system was failing before Covid-19.

According to the old adage, ‘the economy is a subset of society’. Now, more than ever, we need to act like we believe it, says Dinyar Godrej.

Coronavirus has closed factories and workshops across the world, spelling disaster for millions of people who subsist on poverty wages. Tansy Hoskins reimagines a garment industry where workers are better protected.

A public-health emergency requires a degree of monitoring people. All the more reason to be especially vigilant on privacy, argues Nick Dowson.

The Covid-19 pandemic may have put Algeria’s revolutionary uprising temporarily on hold, but, as Hamza Hamouchene observes, the will to topple the military regime remains strong.

In 2019, Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir was brought down in a revolution orchestrated largely by women. But while the dictator might have gone, the divisions wrought by his 30-year rule endure. Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir and discover a movement for change in full swing.

How trans women in Honduras are helping their imprisoned sisters. Frauke Decoodt reports from Tegucigalpa.

Nanjala Nyabola on the mask mandate and personal freedom.

You shall live; and you shall die. Leonardo Sakamoto examines his country’s necropolitics in the light of Black Lives Matter.

Nilanjana Bhowmick despairs of India’s new religion; why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow.

Update from Britain by Frances Rankin.

Richard Swift introduces us to Malawi’s president.

Update from Uganda by Liam Taylor.

Update on the Los Cedros Protected Forest by Jan Goodey.

Update on Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in Britain by Hannah Vickers.

Update from Australia by Amy Hall.

Update from China by Husna Rizvi.

Practical Parenting; Municipal Clean-up; Hands-free Washing.

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Yewande Omotoso’s apartment is slowly being taken over by plants, much to her delight.

Refugees for refugees.

Consumerism and social protest.

Black boys and police violence.

Protesting in Rome, Italy, against Israel’s annexation of Palestinian territories.

Police violence by Thiago Lucas (Brazil).

The photos, facts and politics of Palestine

Nowhere Man. The eventful life – and ultimate betrayal – of an Inuit boy brought to New York City in 1897, as told by ILYA.

Fresh hell by Kate Evans.

A striking portrait of inner strength by Colombian photographer Liliana Merizalde Gonzalez.

Colombian technocrat Iván Duque Márquez is not exactly a fan of peace.

Flavia Mutamutega, Rwanda’s sole agony aunt for adolescent girls, tells Veronique Mistiaen about the problems that preoccupy them.

Human personality types, by Marc Roberts.

Jake Woodier on the climate activists challenging corporate bailouts for the world’s polluters.

World Wide Web, 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 abolished landlords? fantasizes Amy Hall.

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

The Bitch by Pilar Quintana; The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé; Between Light and Storm by Esther Woolfson; Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick.

Eternal Beauty; Les Misérables

A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean: Global Control/Invisible Invasion

US-Palestinian stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid talks to Subi Shah about acting, politics, race and breaking through as a disabled performer.