New Internationalist - 11.2019 - 12.2019

Activism in Myanmar I His colleague Aung Khant agrees. The military is ‘thin-skinned’, ‘bigoted’ and ‘intolerant’, he says, but ...

FEATURE ‘Since the NLD got in, people are quieter,’ she says, even on trivial issues. She believes some are embarrassed to have ...

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T rifonia Melibea Obono is a writer, academic and activist from Equa- torial Guinea. An award-winning author of three published ...

Forced pregnancy I ‘I cost four million francs’ I n my ethnic groups – I’m part Ndowé, part Bisio, part Fang – a woman is not co ...

THE LONG READ me. It was my first time with a man. It hurt me a lot. The next day, I walked with pain in my vagina. I got pregna ...

I Forced pregnancy responsible for what happened if they gave me 50 lashings with a stick. However, when the commissioner left, ...

THE LONG READ the ‘husband’ and the ‘wife’. I don’t understand it. It’s not what I see on TV. And, if you play the role of the w ...

I Forced pregnancy I can’t work. They find fault with all my jobs. I can’t enjoy myself. If I could go back in time, I wouldn’t ...

THE LONG READ We were with the female friend, waiting for a taxi. We had gone along to keep her company. I told the man with the ...

Forced pregnancy loving other women. I find no relation between one thing and the other. They think we’re going to change. They ...

It is widely held that the young firebrand Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia embodies the assertive stance ...

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2019 73 In July, The New York Times published an essay by science-fiction writer Mary Robinette Kowal in which ...

I n 1998, Peter Cusack, a sound artist who currently lives and works between London and Berlin, began a project called Favour- i ...

Words – Louise Gray NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2019 75 The exclusion zone around Chernobyl is possibly the most dangerous place Cusack ha ...

The roots of Rafik Schami’s latest novel lie in events in his own life. In 2010, having lived in exile in Germany for decades, t ...

Nudibranchs are marine gastropod molluscs known for their wildly psychedelic colour and mind-bending multiplicity of forms. It i ...

This is too rare a film – authentic, political, personal, and gut-wrenching – about Britain today. Sorry We Missed You is a wake ...

Don’t be deceived by the light acoustics and sweet- toned vocals on Lucas San- tanna’s latest album, O Céu é Velho há Muito Temp ...

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