New Internationalist 09.10 2019

Blake Morrison on books, Britishness and Brexit When maids are slaves Thomas Sankara a cartoon history WHO OWNS THE SEA? Canad ...

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THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Aïda Grovestins is a Senegal-based journalist and filmmaker covering West Africa and beyond. ...

THE SEA CURRENTS Stories making the news 8 Inside the DRC’s Ebola crisis Plus: Borderlines 9 Introducing Libya’s Khalifa Haftar ...

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6 NEW INTERNATIONALIST Small steps I found the article ‘Progress and its discontents’ by Jason Hickel (NI 520) very informative ...

Friendships and (be)longing are woven through Shamim Zamanvi’s poem Faslon ki Qurbat (Destiny’s Nearness): ‘The shadow of my mem ...

CURRENTS BORDERLINES Not welcome British companies, charities and institutions have expressed their deep frustration at the UK v ...

In the News INTRODUCING KHALIFA HAFTAR While far from new to the scene in Libya, this renegade warlord has now moved centre stag ...

CURRENTS SIGN OF THE TIMES A protester in London makes a risqué pun about the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson ...

In the News healthcare and education, and that dissent is brutally repressed. Doctors, nurses, teachers and students who recentl ...

CURRENTS OPEN WINDOW Drowning by CamdelaFu (Venezuela) INDIA COAL IS IN THE AIR In June 2019, the state of Queensland, Australia ...

In the News WHO KNEW? Governments are switching off the internet with increasing regularity, according to the #KeepItOn campaign ...

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I THE BIG STORY OCEANS WHO OWNS THE SEA? The coming months are critical if we are going to stop the damaging free-for-all that i ...

THE BIG STORY here’s a cartoon that oceanographer Lisa Levin uses in her lectures. It shows a group of women having coffee. One ...

I will say it’s working fine, but that’s simply not the case.’ Under UNCLOS, only flag states (the main ones being Panama, Liber ...

THE BIG STORY Maritime zones and the international Law of the Sea Reproduced and adapted from the Ocean Atlas, Heinrich Böll Sti ...

I Oceans ‘We should keep away from them,’ says Stow, simply. But what about the new initiatives that are increasingly seen as dr ...

THE BIG STORY of environmental protection would be a disaster. They urgently need reforms in the way they operate, as part of th ...