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Agenda Stories making the news this month 08 Unsporting evictions in Brazil 08 Deported without your kids 09 Women vs the army in Kashmir 09 Introducing Hassan Rouhani 09 Austerity angst in Britain 10 Working like a horse 10 Constitutional concerns in Japan 11 Chile’s 9/11 11 Bullies beware PLUS: Scratchy Lines by

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Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be Cheerful.

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The Big Story – Pirates!

12 Empire strikes back Hazel Healy looks at where counter-piracy is going wrong. 16 Piracy – THE FACTS 17 A pirate’s life for me Jatin Dua investigates the ever-blurry line between protector and pirate in coastal Somalia.

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20 Falling out with the locals Pirates in Somalia hastened their own demise by alienating communities with their anti-social behaviour, journalist Jamal Osman tells Hazel Healy. 21 In the firing line

Piracy is just one in a long list of problems facing seafarers in a cutthroat shipping industry, reports Olivia Swift. 24 Pirate Primer

An illustrated guide to buccaneers, corsairs and privateers through the ages, from Peter Willis. 26 Outgunned

Dayo Aiyetan and Theophilus Abbah offer a West African take on piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

Features 38 Europe points the finger of blame Migrants have become the scapegoats in financially straitened times, reports Amy Hall. 40 Worth their salt Matthew Newsome meets a social

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entrepreneur helping India’s salt-workers out of the poverty trap. 42 A toilet makes the difference Girls in Somalia now have a better chance

Charlotte Anderson of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.

Front cover: Juha Sorsa. Magazine designed by Alan Hughes and Juha Sorsa. All monetary values are expressed in US dollars unless otherwise noted.

Mixed Media 34 Music reviews: Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me by Danny

Michel with the Garifuna Collective; and Dalmak by Esmerine. 35 Film reviews: Call Girl, directed by Mikael Marcimain; and

Foxfire, directed by Laurent Cantet. 36 Book reviews: Another America by James Ciment;

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; An Uncertain Glory by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen; Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo; and A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Piñeiro. PLUS: Also out there...

Opinion 30 Argument: Should 16-year-olds get the vote? Politics academic Andrew Mycock and UK Youth Parliament member Chanté Joseph go head-to-head. PLUS: Open Window with Pedro X Molina, from Nicaragua. 33 Mark Engler Don’t shoot the whistleblower. 43 Steve Parry Comedians take on the clowns.

PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

Regulars 6 Letters The debt juggernaut; maximum wages; and stop being mean to vultures. 7 Letter from Botswana Dining by candlelight is not always a matter of choice, as

Wame Molefhe discovers. 28 Country Profile: China 44 Southern Exposure Theodore Kaye photographs Tajikistan’s national sport,

buzkashi. 45 Puzzle Page

PLUS: Marc Roberts’ Only Planet cartoon. 46 And Finally Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi wants women to get out of their traditional closet.

I’m a New Internationalist

Martin Drewry Director of Health Poverty Action I started reading New Internationalist in the mid1980s. It played an important role in my life at a time when I was becoming politicized. I’m 55 now, and head up Health Poverty Action, which works to strengthen poor and marginalized people in their struggle for health.

I was brought up in Doncaster. I started a physics degree when I left school, but left following illness in the first year. It was the days of Thatcherism and mass unemployment and I suddenly had nothing to do so I got involved in activism and volunteered with local-level community initiatives. I eventually went to the Bradford School of Peace Studies, which was a pretty radical place.

The September magazine (2012) on Drugs was New Internationalist at its best. I think that’s an issue the development sector needs to do far more about. Arguably, the impact of changing international drug policy would be just as great as issues like Tax Justice, which we already recognize.

I think New Internationalist gives the development sector a vision. Inevitably, organizations have a level of inertia when thinking of what to campaign on next, and because it is read by a lot of opinion formers, it’s able to get some things on the agenda. To this day, the magazine will often teach me something new when it catches my eye in the office. ■

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