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Millennium Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals

In 2000, the UN summit agreed the Millennium Declaration – aspirations for the new century. Are we on target to meet them by 2015?

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 Photo by: David Mercado / Reuters

Where are they now? Domitila Barrios de Chungara

The leader of the Housewives’ Committee in Bolivia 1979.

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China's Urban Billion

China's Urban Billion

A book by Tom Miller (Zed, ISBN 9781780321417)

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Where are they now? Mari Marcel Thekaekara

The Indian activist who's been writing for New Internationalist for almost 25 years.

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Polyp’s original illustration for Sachs’ 1992 series of essays called ‘Development: a Guide to the Ruins’. The face on the Sphinx is that of Harry Truman, the US President who coined the idea of  ‘underdevelopment’ in a 1949 speech. He saw greater production as ‘the key to prosperity and peace’ and the US as ‘pre-eminent among nations’.

Liberating the world from development

In 1992 New Internationalist published Wolfgang Sachs’ seminal series of essays Development: A Guide to the Ruins. Two decades on, he looks at how globalization gave the concept of ‘development’ an unexpected new lease of life – and argues that the 21st century needs to outgrow the idea for the sake of both the poor and the planet.

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Aminatou Haidar Rafael Marchante / Reuters

Where are they now? Aminatou Haidar

The nonviolent resistance activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our 1997 issue.

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A walk across war-shattered Germany.

Lore

A film directed and co-written by Cate Shortland (109 minutes).

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A female herder milks one of her yaks. The skill is soon forgotten by those who leave the land for a new life in the city.

Waiting for Chinggis

Some Mongolians believe their warrior-hero will return from the dead in 2027 to restore their country. Others aren’t willing to wait that long – and are taking on modern-day menaces themselves. Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons discover a nomadic people fighting for their past, and future.

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Millennium Development Goals

In 2000, the UN summit agreed the Millennium Declaration – aspirations for the new century. Are we on target to meet them by 2015?

March, 2013 460 Buy
Where are they now? Domitila Barrios de Chungara

The leader of the Housewives’ Committee in Bolivia 1979.

March, 2013 460 Buy
China's Urban Billion

A book by Tom Miller (Zed, ISBN 9781780321417)

Peter Whittaker March, 2013 460 Buy
Where are they now? Mari Marcel Thekaekara

The Indian activist who's been writing for New Internationalist for almost 25 years.

March, 2013 460 Buy
Liberating the world from development

In 1992 New Internationalist published Wolfgang Sachs’ seminal series of essays Development: A Guide to the Ruins. Two decades on, he looks at how globalization gave the concept of ‘development’ an unexpected new lease of life – and argues that the 21st century needs to outgrow the idea for the sake of both the poor and the planet.

March, 2013 460 Buy
How many more massacres?

View from America by Mark Engler.

March, 2013 460 Buy
Where are they now? Aminatou Haidar

The nonviolent resistance activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our 1997 issue.

March, 2013 460 Buy
What IF?

Report from Britain.

March, 2013 460 Buy
Erin Brockovista

Report from Chile.

Mischa Wilmers March, 2013 460 Buy
Lore

A film directed and co-written by Cate Shortland (109 minutes).

Malcolm Lewis March, 2013 460 Buy
Waiting for Chinggis

Some Mongolians believe their warrior-hero will return from the dead in 2027 to restore their country. Others aren’t willing to wait that long – and are taking on modern-day menaces themselves. Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons discover a nomadic people fighting for their past, and future.

March, 2013 460 Buy
Reasons to be cheerful

New Internationalist Co-operative January, 2013 459 Buy
Scratchy Lines

Cartoon by Simon Kneebone

Simon Kneebone January, 2013 459 Buy
Penis surcharge in New Zealand

January, 2013 459 Buy
You are not a loan

January, 2013 459 Buy