Features from OneWorld UK

06.11.2009 The fervour with which foreign commercial interests are forcing their agricultural 'solutions' on the African continent represents nothing more than an established endeavour to protect profits and access to resources, writes Joan Baxter.

05.11.2009 A new report argues that fear of libel action means that freedom of expression is under threat as never before, says John Kampfner.

03.11.2009 "On the day I arrived in Peshawar last month, the evening stillness was broken by nine loud explosions, each preceded by the sucking sound of a projectile as it arced into Hayatabad, the suburban sprawl west of the city. Their target was a Frontier Constabulary post guarding the fence that separates the city from the tribal region of Khyber." Muhammad Idrees Ahmad reports.

01.11.2009 More than five million people have died in the war that has been raging in eastern Congo. And now, yet another rebel group is at large in the country, slaughtering hundreds of civilians. It is led by Joseph Kony, a ruthless yet charismatic killer who claims he is fighting a holy war. Xan Rice reports.

29.10.2009 The Obama family's success challenges patriarchal systems headed by white alpha-males and reveals possibilities of overcoming exclusion for non-white people across North and South America and Europe, contends Patricia Daley, albeit in the face of a backlash aimed at reinforcing white supremacy.

29.10.2009 Stressing that he sees little probability of Nigeria's difficulties coming to an end anytime soon, Chielo Zona Eze asks us to consider a 'change of heart that begins with a radical rejection of the thought that the West is only interested in grubbing in the African compost'.

27.10.2009 A journey into some of China's most industrialised cities, to the other side of the shiny facade of China's economy. It offers a glimpse of another life and another world that is rarely seen.
+ Lu Gang's 'Pollution in China' photos

25.10.2009 To ensure another re-election for President Ben Ali, Tunisia’s government has stepped up its campaign of repression against the media, reports Rohan Jayasekera.
+ Elections in an atmosphere of Repression

15.10.2009 Withdrawal of Bangladesh army troops has begun in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. There is tension as the hill people also demand the removal of Bengalis from the region. Retired Brigadier General Hannan Shah discusses the situation.

19.08.2009 An international water conference this week wants to ensure that rural and poor people have access to clean water even as climate and population pressures drive the number of those in need beyond 1 billion.
+ Progressio takes “Just Add Water” message to Stockholm’s World Water Week

29.06.2009 While the world watches the stand-off between the Iranian government and protesters, the end-game begins in Nigeria between its own angry mob of citizens railing against the establishment. Nicholas Benequista reports.

25.05.2009 Economic troubles have dominated 2009. The Trento Festival of Economics therefore enjoys pole position in the European festival season. Its imaginative programme Identity and Global Crisis addresses questions affecting us all.

10.03.2009 Disabled women are becoming more visible in Southeast Asia's disability movement and getting their voices heard. Kuhu Das, a disabled woman activist and director of the Association of Women with Disabilities in India, tells of her struggle and how a unique project is training disabled women to be new leaders.

10.03.2009 Large majorities in most countries say they would like their government and the UN to take an active role in preventing discrimination against women, according to an international poll.

08.03.2009 Mothers, wives, widows and daughters of Iraq remain caught in the grip of a silent emergency, a new survey shows.

04.03.2009 A film by five midwives and a doctor in Tanzania documenting the appalling conditions in which women have to give birth had remarkable effects: the government doubled the number of midwives trained each year and placed more midwives in rural areas. Brigid McConville tells the story.

03.03.2009 As the Sri Lankan government steps up its war with the Tamil Tigers, assaults on journalists are on the rise. So are suspicions that the government is complicit in these attacks, says Bob Dietz.

20.11.2008 For the first time in recent memory, activists are marking World AIDS Day not by risking arrest in protests at the White House, but by lauding the next president for the hope he brings to those affected by the AIDS crisis.

12.11.2008 Yuri Kozyrev is the winner of the Frontline Club Award for his exceptional coverage of the Iraq war - a comprehensive, unique, honest portrait of the people that it has involved.
More Kozyrev photos

24.09.2008 Tunisia promotes itself as a progressive nation that protects human rights, but an international media group says it aggressively silences journalists and others who challenge the policies of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and that journalists are subject to imprisonment, assault, harassment, and censorship.