Vaccine equality

Husna Ara probes co-editor Amy Hall on why now, and what next…

Links and information for taking action on vaccine inequality.

Who gets it? What's needed? What's on order? Who profits? Who lives?

Covid-19 vaccines explained by Thomas Abraham.

Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.

Swagata Yadavar traces the ups and downs in the history of vaccination.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has a key role in shaping the global response to the pandemic. And it’s not good news for health equality. Nick Dowson investigates why.

It is thanks to scientists collaborating across borders that vaccines against Covid-19 have been developed so fast, argues Rajni George.

Despite the challenges of ensuring equal access, health expert Christopher Morgan is hopeful that the Covid-19 vaccine push is helping to shape a better future for global immunology. He speaks to Amy Hall.

Chris Brazier looks back over a career as a co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.

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

Cape Town’s citizens’ groups are not taking housing injustice lying down, according to Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot.

Changiz M Varzi meets Mexican indigenous women artists who are defying convention.

As Big Food spreads throughout the Global South using the tobacco playbook, Kabugi Mbae investigates the rise in obesity – and non-communicable diseases – in Kenya.

Nanjala Nyabola mourns the loss of Nairobi’s tree canopy and questions the expansion of cities.

Lula is back in the game. After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running for the top job, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

Women experiencing violence from their partners need more than a helpline, says Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Italy is under pressure to stop using offshore quarantine ferries, reports Karlos Zurutuza.

‘You won’t be upset if I finish your plate?’.

German energy giant sues the Netherlands for compensation, reports Nick Dowson.

The Prime Minister of Mongolia.

India’s RTI – Right to Information – and tea-stall culture.

Rights at last; Off the gas; Clean up your mess.

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Iris Gonzales reflects on the human cost of the state’s war against its critics.

From private vaccination schemes to public office misuse of power.

'Baño de sangre' ('Blood bath') by Ramón Díaz Yanes (Cuba).

Cartoon by P J Polyp.

Want to restore and protect the world’s forests? Then uphold the rights of the people who live in them, says Danny Chivers.

Fresh hell by Kate Evans.

The photos, facts, and politics of Kyrgyzstan.

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

Ugandan autocrat Yoweri Museveni digs his heels in yet again.

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.

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

What if we all got paid the same? Vanessa Baird on a simple but bold measure to reverse roaring income inequality.

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Chances for meaningful change, by Marc Roberts.

Planet Palm by Jocelyn C Zuckerman; Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina; China in One Village by Liang Hong; Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez.

First Cow directed and co-written by Kelly Reichardt; After Love directed and written by Aleem Khan.

They’re Calling Me Home by Rhiannon Giddens; Big Science by Laurie Anderson.

Artist Saif Osmani talks to Subi Shah about urban culture, gentrification and Brexit.