THE BIG STORY

LAND RIGHTS

15 The land is ours

• It brings power and wealth to whoever holds it, but land should be treated as a public good, argues Amy Hall.

22 Land – THE FACTS

23 Unwanted attraction

• As the Bangladesh government promotes tourism in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Indigenous Jumma people are being squeezed out. Hana Shams Ahmed reports.
• Land Back Riley Yesno explores some of the ways the Indigenous-led movement is redistributing land and wealth in North America.

30 For whose protection?

• global target to expand protected areas for conservation been dubbed the ‘biggest land grab in history’ by Indigenous groups. Amy Hall examines why.
• Nice little earner Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan explain how a teachers’ pension fund has helped drive intensive agriculture and real estate speculation in Brazil.
• Roads for the rich, tents for the poor Nearly a year on from mass evictions in the Mukuru kwa Njenga settlement, Amy Hall hears from social justice activist Anami Daudi Toure about his community’s fight for justice.

CURRENTS

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Stories making the news

The Commonwealth after the Queen Plus: Borderlines

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Introducing: William Ruto Plus: Seriously?

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Corporate warfare in Panama Challenging Ukraine’s anti-union laws Plus: Inequality Watch Plus: Sign of the Times Flooding and debt in Pakistan

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Defying big pharma

Plus: Open Window

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Will COP27 be any different? Plus: Reasons to be cheerful

Letters

• Plus: Why I…
• Letter from Buenos Aires Virginia Tognola’s sympathy for a sweaty Santa as the festive season heats up.

40 Country Profile: Myanmar

• Cartoon History – The Malayan Emergency Ilya’s graphic re-telling of ‘Britain’s Vietnam’.
• Southern Exposure Photographer Gabriel Tejada snaps a performer preparing for Peru’s biggest carnival.

Temperature Check

• Aruna Chandrasekhar argues that we need to keep one eye on the ‘other COP’.
• The Interview Mohamad Hafez discusses art, architecture and his nostalgia for Syria with Louisa Waugh.
• Hall of Infamy – Paul Kagame Being the vanquisher of the génocidaires and darling of the West hasn’t curbed the Rwandan leader’s tyrannical tendencies.
• The Puzzler

Agony Uncle

• Who qualifies for an ‘exhibition of contemporary working class art’? Our Agony Uncle weighs in.

What if…

• Electricity were not for sale? Nick Dowson imagines a different kind of energy system.