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Open and democratic societies cannot be built on fear and hatred, writes Nick Dearden.

The new scheme lacks understanding and will continue to marginalize the most vulnerable, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

As UN special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment presents his report today, Doug Weir explains why this is especially important in armed conflict.

Cartoon by Marc Roberts

More reviews from the March 2016 magazine.

Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye by Marie Mutsuki Mockett; This Is An Uprising by Mark Engler and Paul Engler; Bad News by Anjan Sundaram; Betty Boo by Claudia Piñeiro.

Like a Bird or Spirit, not a Face by Sainkho Namtchylak; De Montevert by De Montevert.

The Pearl Button, directed by Patricio Guzmán; The Survivalist, directed by Stephen Fingleton.

The author and reporter talks to Graeme Green about self-expression, dictatorship and the importance of a free press.

Turkey’s president is one of the political class’s more humourless and intolerant specimens.

Researchers from the Ocean Clean Up will place a 100-kilometre-long floating barrier off the Dutch coastline, Beulah Maud Devaney reports.

Polyp's latest cartoon.

Pakistani Christians who are charged under the country’s blasphemy laws are living in hiding, Rizwan Syed reports.

TTIP is both ludicrous and frightening, writes Chris Coltrane.

Ayuba Ijai was held hostage for months by Boko Haram terrorists before government soldiers detained him on suspicion of being a Boko Haram member. Samuel Malik explains.