Subi Shah speaks to DJ Ritu about the ‘Asian Underground’, women’s rights and the British honours system.

On 29 September, after a Houthi missile aimed at Tel Aviv was intercepted by Israeli air defence, Israeli fighter jets ...

Inside Unilever's sustainability myth Company slogans and mantras claim it is getting closer to pair profit with sustainability, but facts and figures tell a very different story. Investigation by ...

Guilt complex We feel guilty about what we do (flying, driving a car) and about what we don’t do (not making that demo, not recycling enough). *Adam Ma’anit* traces the roots of these feelings and ...

The future for the world can look bleak, dominated by technological and corporate power. But what if resistance to it won through? *Pat Mooney* tells a story illustrating how things might unfold ...

The World Unspun podcast New Internationalist’s award-winning journalism – now in a podcast! Subscribe and listen to The World Unspun wherever you get your podcasts. All episodes ...

G eorgetown, the capital city of Guyana, sits at the meeting-point of the Demerara River and the Atlantic Ocean. At dusk, men fish from a narrow concrete embankment that juts out beyond the land, ...

Throughout history, many of the world’s deadliest conflicts, particularly those in Africa, have been frozen out of the mainstream media. Perhaps the ultimate illustration of this is the war in and ...

The washing process began when a nun dropped the freshly soiled clothing onto the floor by the drain and brushed the largest chunks of human waste down the hole with a broom. Another nun dunked the ...

A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The Municipal Corporation in Chandigarh pays a 22,044 USD per month to rent the watches. ASMA HAFIZ O n a cold November morning, in the ...

L ast week, the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced his policy for tackling coronavirus: self-isolation. Anyone with a new, continuous cough or high temperature is now advised to ...

At least 28 Palestinian artists and writers have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s devastating bombardment of Gaza. It is a number that is easy to lose sight of given the wider horrifying ...