INDEX: PRINT EDITION

IWR 6/SPRING 2011

LETTER FROM KHARTOUM
Testimony: Surviving torture in Sudan.
Yousif ElMahdi

SUPPORTING REVOLUTIONS
Foreign support for pro-democracy groups.
Jørgen Johansen

MIGRANT WORKERS IN LIBYA
The story missing from CNN-style coverage of the crisis in Libya.
Hannah Gurman

SAVING THE AWÁ
The plight of a nomadic Amazon tribe.
Sarah Shenker, Survival International

FORGOTTEN PRISONERS OF CHINA
Nobel Peace Prize and the struggle for democracy in China.
Chen Maiping

BORN BEHIND BARS
Documentary: Children growing up in a prison in Mexico City.
Caroline Bennett

DAUGHTERS OF SOUTH AFRICA
Ndumie Funda and the struggle against corrective rape.
Syeda Lubna Mehrin

WAR SCHOOL
Documentary: A military camp for children in Hungary.
Arpad Kurucz

SKETCHES FROM JENIN
Portfolio of cartoons.
Mohammad sabaaneh

RADIATIONLAND
Documentary: A trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine.
Benoît Balança

PRISON COUNTRY
In Eritrea, forced conscription is the new slavery.
Lalon Sander

THE FUTURE OF FINE ARTS
The past, present, and future trends in fine arts.
Peter Ekström

HOW DO WE BECOME GOOD AGAIN?
Charles and Gregory Fried open the moral debate over torture.
Joshua F leach

B3: BOOKS, BLOGS, BRIEFINGS
Recommendations from IWR.

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IWR 5/SEPTEMBER 2010

BURMA’S VANUNU
How Major Sai Thein Win exposed the Burmese nuclear program.
Robert Kelley, Democratic Voice of Burma

MOTHERS OF AFGHANISTAN
The fight against maternal and child mortality.
IRIN

MISSED GOAL
Labour rights abuses in the football stitching industry.
Dingxiaozi Ding, International Labor Rights Forum

IN DEFENCE OF LEWIS AND ASHTIANI
Iran and the United States: Notes on capital punishment.
Maryam Namazie

KHARTOUM’S STATE OF DENIAL
South Sudan votes in a referendum on secession from the north.
Blake Evans-Pritchard, IWPR

THE KAREN WARRIOR
Zoya Phan: Freedom fighter from Burma.
Mark Farmaner

FOR FREEDOM
“I was only fourteen but I had to flee from my homeland.” — Zoya Phan.
Tasneem Khalil

AFTER SAVAK
A briefing on the security-intelligence complex of Iran.
Houshang Asadi

THE RISE AND FALL OF MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY
Book review — Putin’s oil: The Yukos affair and the struggle for Russia/Martin Sixsmith.
Dixie Eriksson

CARTOONS FOR FREEDOM
Illustrating the struggle for rights and liberties in Iran.
Mana Neyestani

THE DEITY OF GLOBALISATION
Book review — The God market: How globalization is making India more Hindu/Meera Nanda.
Joshua F Leach

HOW TO BECOME A REAL MUSLIM
Censorship, Muhammad caricatures, the Rushdie affair.
Kenan Malik

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IWR 4/APRIL 2010

WITCHES OF AFRICA
Witch-hunts go on in the continent.
Leo Igwe, Nigerian Humanist Movement

BARRING THE BAHAIS
How Iran persecutes one of its largest minority groups.
Faraz Sanei, Human Rights Watch

DEADLY RIDE
The United Arab Emirates flouts ban on child camel jockeys.
Catherine Turner, Anti-Slavery International

BLOGGING BEYOND BORDERS
Yoani Sánchez and internet freedom.
Andrew Ford Lyons, Committee to Protect Bloggers

IN BAD COMPANY
Press and internet freedom: Kazakhstan takes page from Belarus.
Nina Ognianova, Committee to Protect Journalists

LITTLE WOMAN FOR LITTLE WOMEN
Interview with Alaina Podmorow.
Sharmin Afsana

ORIGINAL SIN
Catholic church child abuse scandal grips Germany.
Lalon Sander

DEMINER
On clearing landmines, making the ground safe again.
Magnus Boström

GAY RIGHTS AND THE POLITICS OF HUMANITY
Book review: From disgust to humanity/Martha C Nussbaum.
Joshua F Leach

ROSARNO
Struggling against xenophobia, African migrants try to survive in Italy.
Martin Edström

A TRIP TO BURMA
Do we help Burma, by boycotting the country?
Anne Edelstam

“WE BECAME MUSLIMS”
Why Swedish women convert to Islam?
Madeleine Sultán Sjöqvist

GOD AND THE GOSPEL OF GLOBALISATION
Amid the triumph of free market, secularism remains a myth in India.
Meera Nanda

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IWR 3/FEBRUARY 2010

BLOOD DIAMOND
Diamond mining in Zimbabwe bolsters the Robert Mugabe Regime.
Tiseke Kasambala, Human Rights Watch

FUELLING THE FIRE
Sweden’s role in India-Pakistan arms race.
Anna Ek, Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society

VS. SHARIA
Resisting the misogynist, medieval and barbaric Islamic code.
Maryam Namazie, One Law for All

DO YOU KNOW WHO MADE YOUR GUITAR?
Labour rights abuses in the guitar industry.
Leslie Eme, International Labor Rights Forum

NOT A FAIR DEAL
Turkmenistan: Human rights for energy.
Inga Sikorskaya, Institute for War & Peace Reporting

AGAINST GENDER APARTHEID
Interview: Parvin Ardalan.
Haideh Daragahi

IN IRAN, IMAGES SPEAK
Civil resistance against the regime grows stronger.
Parvin Ardalan

OUTCAST
Homophobia and politics in Uganda.
Ariel Rubin

MOTHERS OF DIYARBAKIR
In the war-torn heartland of Turkish Kurdistan.
Shirvan Nuray Sarikaya

BAD COP
Police violence in Germany.
Lalon Sander

HANGER OF HAL FAR
Documentary: Refugees stranded in Malta.
Martin Edström

THE RIGHT TO RETURN
Diego Garcia: Expulsion of the Chagossian people.
Dan Archer

KHARTOUM’S BEST FRIEND?
Book review: An apologist for the Sudanese regime.
Joshua F Leach

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IWR 2/NOVEMBER 2009

STOP FEEDING THE GENERALS
Ending arms export to Burma.
Mark Farmaner, Burma Campaign UK

UNWELCOMING SHORES
Migrant and refugee children in Greece.
Simone Troller, Human Rights Watch

SUFFER THE STATELESSNESS
Twelve million people worldwide without a nationality.
Maureen Lynch, Refugees International

IMPUNITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
Reign of extrajudicial executions.
Brian Campbell, International Labor Rights Forum

SLAVERY BEGINS AT HOME
Millions of domestic workers in servitude.
Audrey Guichon, Anti-Slavery International

DAUGHTER OF PEACE
Irom Sharmila Chanu and her struggle against military repression.
Deepti Priya Mehrotra

FROM THE KILLING FIELDS TO THE COURTHOUSE
Genocide in Bosnia and the betrayal of the ICTY.
Amila Jašarević

AFGHANISTAN: IS THERE A HUMANITARIAN SOLUTION?
The case for supporting pro-democracy groups.
Joshua F Leach

FULL DISCLOSURE
A documentary on embedded journalism in Iraq.
Brian Palmer

IN HATE WE TRUST
Hate crimes against LGBT people.
Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin

MYTHS OF NEUTRALITY
Ignoring the Holocaust in Sweden and Switzerland.
Arne Ruth

THE FIRST FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OF DEBT
Slavery, violence and the history of debt.
David Graeber

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IWR 1/SEPTEMBER 2009

THE LAST COLONY
Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara.
Malainin Lakhal, Sahrawi Journalists & Writers Union

CAUGHT BETWEEN A CROCODILE AND A SNAKE
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Naomi Pardington, Médecins Sans Frontières

AGAINST MILITARISM
Swedish campaign for a weapons free world.
Anna Andersson, Ofog/Avrusta

QADDAFI’S MEDIA REPRESSION
Libya’s war against the press.
Kamel Labidi, Committee to Protect Journalists

CLOSING BASES
International campaign against foreign military bases.
Wilbert van der Zeijden, No Bases Network

CHINESE APARTHEID
Interview with Rebiya Kadeer.
Wasfia Nazreen

AMBASSADOR OF CONSCIENCE
Interview with Craig Murray.
Shafiur Rahman

BLOOD COTTON
Forced child labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields.
Tasneem Khalil

LOST CHILDHOOD
Children in Danish asylum centres.
Amila Jašarević

THE GOD WHO HATES WOMEN
Oppression of women under religious regimes.
Ophelia Benson

STEPS TOWARDS FREEDOM
Fragments from the history of free speech in Sweden.
Ola Larsmo

PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES
A tale of the book in Iran.
Azar Mahloujian

SKETCHES WITH SECRET INK
Book excerpt, translated from Arabic by Ghias Aljundi.
Faraj Bayrakdar