Recently added articles from New Internationalist:
When designer Alan Hughes first pitched the cover that you.
May 01, 2009; ... When designer Alan Hughes first pitched the cover that you now see on the front of this edition, I went, 'Oh no ... "This kind of image is often used as a shorthand to pose questions of integration and identity. So up I got on my high horse, lecturing anyone who would listen ...
Derogatory language.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... 'The Age of Possibility' (Put people first, NI 421) provided a clear exposition of why striving to rebuild orthodox capitalist structures is misguided. It also gave pointers to promising alternatives. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] However, the good arguments for looking ...
Vital intervention.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... I was relieved to see Mothers Who Die (NI 420). Directly as a result of the Australian refugee campaign I made contact with an Afghan man, Juma Nazari, incarcerated at the time on the Pacific island of Nauru. In 2002 Juma was bullied by the Australian Government into returning ...
Bhutan first.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Nick Harvey suggested that the Dalai Lama 'may be the only head of state in history voluntarily to reduce his own political powers' (Special Feature on Tibet, NI 420). In fact the previous king of Bhutan, King Jigme Wangchuk, a much loved and respected monarch, in 1992 systematically ...
Brutal markets.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009 ... Sunita Narain quotes approvingly Nicholas Stern's famous but quite mistaken remark that 'climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen' ('A million mutinies', Climate Justice, NI 419). Dangerous climate change is a result of markets working well: ...
No response.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Under the Middle East section of The unreported year: 2008 (NI 419) I read: 'An uneasy six-month ceasefire comes to a brutal end as Israel responds to Hamas rocket attacks' and was appalled at the language used. I want to know how you think Israel's brutal assault on Gazans was a response? ...
Wear it well.(feminism and women's clothing)
May 01, 2009 ... 1 I can't accept Anne Horan's lecture on how liberated women should dress (Letters, NI 420). Did we fight our way out of one box just to be shoved in another and told once again what to do? Wear whatever you like, women; whether sloppy or sexy, veiled or vivacious, comfortable, crazy, or ...
The sum of impressions: an unexpected gift places Maria Golia in a role she had never imagined for herself.(Letter from Cairo)(Essay)
May 01, 2009; ... I was at my computer immersed in work when the doorbell jarringly rang. It was one of my upstairs neighbours, the rotund and, in this case, grinning Selwa. She was holding a large white plastic bag bearing the 'Bolo' logo, a rip-off of Ralph Lauren's, with the horse and rider and all. From ...
Into the vortex of identity: from the Netherlands Dinyar Godrej begins a personal exploration into why multiculturalism is coming unstuck, and considers how we can re-engage.(KEYNOTE)(Viewpoint essay)
May 01, 2009 ... Thirteen years ago, I moved to the Netherlands. I had become yet one more manifestation of the shifting populations of our planet and, unbeknownst to me, the tiny rivulet of my life was about to be drawn irresistibly into a torrent of argument that would course violently through ...
To craft a new society: a rapidly changing world is prompting retreat into tidy and restrictive identities, argues Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Multiculturalism, once an expansive idea, has now hardened into orthodoxy and schism. Time to usher in an era of greater openness.(BRITAIN / POLICY AND PRACTICE)(Viewpoint essay)
May 01, 2009; ... The new millennium rushes on in a rapidly transforming world. Unexpected forces have been released in Britain and around the globe. They bring fresh challenges for new and old Britons, particularly those who feel an erosion of trust and ease. The geopolitical realities of this century and ...
No room for bigots: how have Canadians managed to make a go of multiculturalism when it's in trouble almost everywhere else? Haroon Siddiqui on the reasons to cheer (and what bothers Muslims most about the country).(CANADA
May 01, 2009; ... Multiculturalism is being trashed in Europe. My Canadian view of that is: a) Europeans are abandoning what they never had; if, by multiculturalism, we mean the official recognition and promotion of the equality and dignity of all groups and cultures, rather than a feel-good ...
'What's my identity?'.(FAITH SCHOOLING)(Laura McAllister)(Interview)
May 01, 2009 ... Faith schools get a bashing even from committed multiculturalists. Supporters argue that they acknowledge the importance of the child's cultural identity, something they feel is missing from mainstream education; detractors say they are bastions of bigotry. As one young blogger put it: 'In ...
Ripping up the rainbow: India was conceived as a rainbow nation of equal people and equal religions. Shoma Chaudhury on the religiously branded hate politics that has left the country fighting for its soul.(INDIA
May 01, 2009; ... There was a faint chill of approaching winter as I got into a taxi late one night two years ago. Tehelka, the newsmagazine I work with, had just broken a major investigation. It was an hour past midnight. The airwaves were still crackling with the amplifying shames of the story as ...
Another side of paradise: Mauritian novelist Lindsey Collen looks back on her country's recent past to see how class strife disguises itself as culture clash.(MAURITIUS / CLASS)
May 01, 2009; ... Almost everyone uses the cliche, from the World Bankto hotel bosses, from the Prime Minister to visiting academics, from journalists to primary school children--'Mauritius is a multicultural paradise where different communities live side by side in harmony'. When I try to situate the ...
Hanging together: strategies for social cohesion.(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... what the state can do 1 Guarantee equality before the law and a strong humam rights framework, including anti-discrimination measures. This benefits everyone. Humam rights abuses must not be excused as 'cultural'. 2 Get serious about tackling poverty; People facing ...
Peace offerings: Hadani Ditmars records the voices of courageous Israeli and Palestinian civilians reaching out to each other for peace, can they move things on when big politics is stuck in a violent mire?(Other Voice group)
May 01, 2009 ... When the first Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombs began to rain down on Gaza last December, Nirmeen Kharma was terrified. 'I felt so afraid for my kids,' relates the mother of three from her Gaza City neighbourhood, which is still reeling from the 22-day assault that left 1,600 dead, 900 ...
Upping the ante: protesters raise the stakes as strikes sweep the French Caribbean.(ECONOMIC CRISIS)
May 01, 2009; ... 'Let's stand up and fight, against all kinds of abuses!' This is the rallying cry of the 47 unions and community organizations that form Guadeloupe's Committee against Extreme Exploitation. In one of the first broad-based revolts against the effects of the global financial meltdown, a wave ...
Victory for Czech peace campaigners.(MISSILE DEFENCE)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... The Pentagon's plans to install a US military radar base in the Czech Republic, an integral part of its 'Star Wars' missile defence scheme, has received a major setback. In March, the Czech Government halted its attempts to ratify an agreement to host the base when it appeared that the ...
May Day! Montreal police out of line and in the courts.(CANADA)
May 01, 2009; ... As police searched her lunchbox and stroller, six-year-old Oceanne Giroux-Goncalves cried and watched officers rough up a fellow demonstrator. 'Is that what war is like?' Oceanne asked her mother after the march. 'Do police officers kill children?' On 1 May last ...
'Green' government shuts down leading environmental group.(ECUADOR)
May 01, 2009 ... In March, environmentalists were shocked to hear that the Ecuadorian Government had shut down Accion Ecologica (Environmental Action), withdrawing the legal status of one of South America's best-known environmental groups, reports Daniel Denvir in Grist magazine. Accion Ecologica, which ...