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Landmine menace

Report from Zimbabwe by Wallace Mawire.

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Introducing... Extinction Rebellion

The newest movement against climate degradation.

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Former child soldiers pictured at a rehabilitation centre in Bukavu, DRC. Photo: Tim Dirven/Panos

What next for child soldiers?

Report from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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 Illustration: Pete Reynolds

The age of development: an obituary

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.

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Fifi, with her daughter Mia, bemoans the slow pace of reconstruction. Photo: Tamzin Forster

Barbudans are resisting disaster capitalists

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.

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View of Ferizaj. Photo: Arianna Pagani

After Isis

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.

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Bad tech

Bad tech

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

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Jose Caceres, a migrant who was deported back to Honduras, holds up a picture of his sons. He was separated from his 11-year-old Brayan (right) five months ago as they tried to enter the US. Brayan is now living in a shelter in Maryland. Photo: Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/PA images

Deported by Silicon Valley

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.

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Throughout history, migrants have often been treated as a source of disease and 'contagion'. (Left) Immigrant children are examined on arrival at Ellis Island, New York, 1911. Photo: Bettmann/Getty

How fear infected the border

Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

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 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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Previous page:  Students perform Irish dancing at the Queens Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, New York. For people from ethnic minority backgrounds living in Ireland, the friendly image of the ‘invisible border’ does not apply – racial profiling by police and immigration officials takes place at crossing points and in-country. Photo: Richard Levine/Alamy

Ireland’s invisible frontier

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.

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 Illustration: Nick Taylor

Open borders, 2050

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

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Free entry

Free entry

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

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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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Action on Borders

Links for campaigning and more reading on Borders.

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Landmine menace

Report from Zimbabwe by Wallace Mawire.

Wallace Mawire January, 2020 523 Buy
Introducing... Extinction Rebellion

The newest movement against climate degradation.

January, 2020 523 Buy
What next for child soldiers?

Report from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

January, 2020 523 Buy
The age of development: an obituary

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.

Wolfgang Sachs January, 2020 523 Buy
Barbudans are resisting disaster capitalists

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.

Gemma Sou January, 2020 523 Buy
After Isis

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.

Sara Manisera January, 2020 523 Buy
Bad tech

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

January, 2020 523 Buy
Deported by Silicon Valley

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.

Gaby del Valle January, 2020 523 Buy
How fear infected the border

Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

Ruben Andersson January, 2020 523 Buy
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.

Hazel Healy January, 2020 523 Buy
Ireland’s invisible frontier

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.

Luke Butterly January, 2020 523 Buy
Open borders, 2050

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

Alex Sager January, 2020 523 Buy
Free entry

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

January, 2020 523 Buy
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’.

Hazel Healy January, 2020 523 Buy
Action on Borders

Links for campaigning and more reading on Borders.

January, 2020 523 Buy