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Featured Writers

Lucy EJ Woods

International freelance journalist, specialising in on-the-ground environmental reporting. Published by The Ecologist, Mongabay, The Guardian, New Internationalist and more. Experience reporting from Egypt, The Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Russia, Mongolia, Papua …

Alexi Demetriadi

Journalist • Sub-Editor • Copywriter

Mira Galanova

A freelance investigative journalist covering human rights and security in Latin America

Jody Ray

Lydia Noon

Freelance journalist focusing on activism, the Middle East and refugees.

Alex Blair

Journalist and writer trying to capture the stories that matter. Hard-hitting, multimodal work on geopolitics, foreign policy, conflict, defence, human rights and Latinoamérica. Featured in Army Technology, New Internationalist, Verdict, …

Latest Articles

Sierra Leone's vanishing history

Built by formerly enslaved people, Freetown’s historic ‘bod oses’ now face an existential threat as foreign embassies move in. Jody Ray reports. On a humid March morning this year, police officers came to the scenic Hill Station neighbourhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone to evict civil servants living in historic board …

By Jody Ray
5th December 2024 • New Internationalist

Political power play leaves Bolivians short of food and fuel

‘The never-ending queues for fuel, the waste and scarcity of food, the rising prices — the bloqueos are affecting the lives of all Bolivians,’ says Carla Torres, a café worker from the capital city of La Paz. Torres' words reflect the increasingly dire situation across the Andean country marred by …

By Alex Blair
4th November 2024 • New Internationalist

The UK kids skipping school for Palestine

From school strikes to assembly boycotts, Lydia Noon reports on how children are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.‘There’s one ribbon for each of the children killed in Gaza,’ said Zeinab*, gesturing to a large plastic box of green, white, red and black ribbons in the colours of the Palestinian …

By Lydia Noon
9th November 2023 • New Internationalist

Justice delayed is justice denied

On 8 March 2017 Guatemala woke up to the news that a state-run home for vulnerable children was on fire. Nineteen girls died at the scene and 22 others later in hospital. Fifteen survived with life-changing injuries.

By Mira Galanova
27th August 2023 • New Internationalist

The Usual Suspects

The fraught path of transitional justice in Bolivia

By THOMAS GRAHAM
19th December 2022 • New Internationalist

Palestine/Israel: Bearing Witness

A small feature on Machsom Watch, a human rights group operating in Palestine/Israel, appeared in print.

By Aaron Drapkin
1st March 2020 • New Internationalist

How a London arms fair shields the war on Yemen

How a London arms fair shields the war on Yemen At the invitation of the UK government, this week Saudi representatives are buying bombs in London at DSEI, the world’s largest weapons fair, and the state-owned arms company, Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI), is exhibiting its equipment to equally unscrupulous …

By Lydia Noon
13th September 2019 • New Internationalist

Stansted15: ‘To be found guilty of a terror-related charge is devastating’

Today is Human Rights Day and fifteen migrant rights campaigners, dubbed the Stansted15, have just been found guilty of a terror-related charge by a jury. After a nine-week trial at Chelmsford Crown Court for preventing a chartered immigration removal flight from taking off on 28 March last year, the protesters …

By Lydia Noon
10th December 2018 • New Internationalist

Remembrance must include Britain’s colonial legacy

On a damp Sunday morning, a week before Remembrance Sunday, a bronze statue of a weather-beaten Indian soldier clad in British army attire was unveiled outside a Sikh temple in the UK town of Smethwick, West Midlands ahead of the Armistice centenary. Sculpted by artist Luke Perry, some of the …

By Anu Shukla
9th November 2018 • New Internationalist

The slow and bloody road to land justice

Colombia’s peace deal promised the return of stolen lands. But it isn’t so easy to achieve, Mira Galanova discovers.

By Mira Galanova
3rd September 2018 • New Internationalist

Colombia’s political prisoners’ futures hang on electoral outcome

The Colombian peace process has been experiencing many setbacks during the last months. In the prison Bellavista in the city Medellín, members of the ELN and FARC talk about their perspective.

By Alicia Prager
1st June 2018 • New Internationalist

Goodbye to the monarchy?

On a chilly evening in the gardens next to Westminster Palace, about 20 anti-monarchist activists are gathered with placards saying, ‘No taxpayer funding for the royal wedding.’ Two members of parliament soon join them – they’re receiving a petition from members of Republic

By Darren Loucaides
18th May 2018 • New Internationalist

Thailand’s intergenerational exiles

‘My mother said to me “this is just history repeating itself’.” Thai-British academic Giles Ji Ungpakorn speaks with Alexi Demetriadi

By Alexi Demetriadi
2nd February 2018 • New Internationalist

An overdue apology

It's 100 years since Britain declared its support for the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel.

By Lydia Noon
1st September 2017 • New Internationalist

Community leaders, politicians and business owners: are women leading a cultural shift in Nepal?

These brilliant women are defying cultural traditions in Nepal, and are becoming community leaders, environmentalists politicians and business owners. Lucy EJ Woods reports. After decades of turmoil, 22 governing coalitions in 26 years, a royal massacre and a merry-go-round of impermanent heads of state, Nepal has started to do things …

By Lucy EJ Woods
15th August 2017 • New Internationalist

‘Women’s contributions to peace are essential’

Years of threats from the Taliban only strengthened Shawana Shah’s resolve to bring peace to Pakistan During the ‘Talibanization era’ and its consequential military operations, Pakistan witnessed the killings of tens of thousands of people, a mass exodus and vast human rights violations. Human rights activists were particularly targeted and …

By Mahwish Qayyum
24th July 2017 • New Internationalist

‘Women’s contributions to peace are essential’

Years of threats from the Taliban only strengthened Shawana Shah’s resolve to bring peace to Pakistan During the ‘Talibanization era’ and its consequential military operations, Pakistan witnessed the killings of tens of thousands of people, a mass exodus and vast human rights violations. Human rights activists were particularly targeted and …

By Mahwish Qayyum
24th July 2017 • New Internationalist

‘The borderless Republic’: Sheffield celebrates migration

Britain’s largest festival about refugees and sanctuary is more relevant than ever. It is lunchtime on 21 June, the hottest day of the year so far. Two drummers signal the start of an outdoor African Fusion Dance Workshop. Dancing is not compulsory but participation is – the beat is infectious.

By Lydia Noon
23rd June 2017 • New Internationalist

Lost in exile: The forgotten Chagos Islanders

A little-known group of Indian Ocean islanders, forcibly removed from their homes almost half-a-century ago and left to their own devices after being deported to England, are still fighting for recognition and basic rights.

By Alexi Demetriadi
22nd June 2017 • New Internationalist

Domestic violence: how victims are left on their own in Pakistan

The lack of laws is leading to a scary rise in domestic violence in some of Pakistan's provinces, writes Mahwish Qayyum Lying on a Hayatabad Paraplegic Centre’s (HPC) bed in Peshawar, Razia Bibi, 16, resident of Urmar – a suburb area of Peshawar – says ‘every woman dreams of a …

By Mahwish Qayyum
2nd June 2017 • New Internationalist

Domestic violence: how victims are left on their own in Pakistan

The lack of laws is leading to a scary rise in domestic violence in some of Pakistan's provinces, writes Mahwish Qayyum Lying on a Hayatabad Paraplegic Centre’s (HPC) bed in Peshawar, Razia Bibi, 16, resident of Urmar – a suburb area of Peshawar – says ‘every woman dreams of a …

By Mahwish Qayyum
2nd June 2017 • New Internationalist

Feminist folk in China

An all-woman band is using music to challenge China's rum treatment of woman migrant workers.

By Lydia Noon
1st June 2017 • New Internationalist

Why are there still British military bases in Cyprus?

The continued division of Cyprus suits Britain’s geopolitical interests, as well as those of world powers that see the Mediterranean island as a useful pawn in a longstanding game of chess.

By Darren Loucaides
1st May 2017 • New Internationalist

Human rights in the Yemeni Civil War: a word with Radhya Almutawakel

The Yemeni human rights defender talks to Lydia Noon about Britain’s arms deals, drones and gender discrimination during the war.

By Lydia Noon
5th April 2017 • New Internationalist

March for Aleppo

Citizens from around Europe are walking in the footsteps of refugees by walking from Germany to Syria.

By Lydia Noon
1st April 2017 • New Internationalist

Iraqi women step up

Women in Iraq are rallying for their rights.

By Lydia Noon
1st March 2017 • New Internationalist

Country Profile: Nicaragua

Six young revolutionaries pose on a photo from 1979. Side by side with Nicaragua’s current leader Daniel Ortega is Carlos Brenes. Then comrades, today they are fierce political opponents.

By Mira Galanova
29th January 2017 • New Internationalist

Under darkness, Gazans mark a new year

Gazan residents speak out and share photos about suffering Israel’s decade-long blockade.

By Lydia Noon
11th January 2017 • New Internationalist

A word with Naseema Assada

Lydia Noon talks to the Saudi women’s rights activist about guardianship, Twitter hashtags, and suing the government.

By Lydia Noon
1st January 2017 • New Internationalist

Water bankruptcy looms

The dry Middle Eastern country faces mass displacement due to severe water shortages.

By Lydia Noon
1st January 2017 • New Internationalist