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Cartoon by Marc Roberts

Jean Paul Saint Fleur photographs two boys getting ready for carnival in southern Haiti.

Renowned US feminist Cynthia Enloe reveals how patriarchy is adapted and sustained by its adherents – knowledge which is essential to challenging it

Cartoon by P J Polyp

Richard Swift takes aim at Sava Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar, once friends but now foes at the pinnacle of violent South Sudanese politics.

A profile of Afghan campaigner for women’s education and rights Jamila Afghani, who started by persuading the imams. Beena Nadeem talks to the unassuming trailblazer

Political gatherings will be met with heavy-handed security from state-owned paramilitary groups; and the independence of civil society and media will be greatly restricted. Claire Elder reports on the status of Somaliland.

This month's cartoon by Vasco Gargalo from Portugal.

Amy Booth goes to the back of beyond in Bolivia and hears of a surprising migration.

Praise, blame and all points in between? Your feedback published in the October 2017 magazine.

Modern technological advances are making it look like millions of us will be left twiddling our thumbs, writes Steve Parry

Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is, writes Mark Engler

Army of Robins; Fossil fail; Mothers halt HIV

The state of Oregon has expanded access to abortion, birth control and post-natal medical care for women, writes Amy Hall

In the first case of its kind, a small Nigerian community is taking on oil giant Eni in the Italian courts. By Francesca Gater