Currents
Caught in the net
Brazil has no specific law to deal with internet content.
Mine hero
The struggle to eradicate landmines continues
To buy or not to buy
The Nestlé fair trade Kit Kat dilemma.
Victory looms
Transatlantic student boycott forces clothing company to reopen factory
Minor offences
India's brutal treatment of Kashmiri youths is fuelling conflict
Hunted down
Maasai evicted so foreigners might play
Watching the weather
Weather patterns across the West African country have become increasingly hard to predict as a result of climate change.
The eye sees, but the hand can't reach
Palestinian proverb reflects bitter truth for olive farmers
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for?
What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for
that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a
10-point economic detox programme.
A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on
biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.
Too late for Martha
Denied treatment while pregnant, she died in agony after her child was
born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on
abortion in Colombia.
The banks are made of marble
The true owners of the silver in the vaults.
The fourth generation
Iran is young, vibrant and diverse, despite the repression, as Nasrin
Alavi explains.
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