• Iran’s rebel clerics
  Ayatollahs advocating human rights, democracy
• Sex trafficking in Canada
  Aboriginal girls particularly vulnerable
• First Nations take ownership
  A new model of partnership with private sector in hydro project
• Community activists killed
  Guatemala a more dangerous place for youth
• Eye on the World Bank and IMF
  World Bank division strengthens its human rights policy
• Eye on Ottawa
  Profile of Marie-Lucie Morin, Canada’s voice at the World Bank
• Working for a better world
  Kick-start your career in development
• Les Montagnards de Vietnam
  “Leur monde est détruit”

Fall 2010, featuring these articles:

• Displaced An artist’s works reflect her response to losing her childhood home to floodwaters as China builds a massive dam
  
• Health advocates targetted Government harassment of HIV/AIDS health workers in China continues despite official policy
  
• Land grabbing Increasing demand for agricultural land means eviction, conflict for many
  
• The future of farming is... trees? Going beyond two-dimensional farming
  
• No GMOs, please, we’re Kenyan Corn shipment sparks protests
  Eye on the World Bank and IMF
  
• World Bank provides $3.75 billion for giant coal-burning plant despite climate change concerns
  Eye on Ottawa
  
• New Canadian government policy in international development - less accountability and dialogue, fewer partnerships
  New feature section! Working for a better world
  
• The internship - do you really have to work for free to kick-start your career?
  
• Foreign Service as a career
  
• Profile: Dexter X ‘s world of protest
  

Summer 2010, featuring these articles:

• Photo essay - Bhopal 25 years after the world's worst industrial disaster
• The ‘walking dead’ - Tanzania’s trade in the body parts of albino people
• Tourism in Burma - Should we stay or should we go?
• The Million Signatures Campaign - Iranian women imprisoned for demanding rights
• ‘Contre-développement’ au Ladakh - Contrer les effets du développement conventionnel
• Mass murder's paper trail - the Guatemala police archive
• No healing for the child soldier
• The ‘new anti-Semitism’ and the line between criticism and prejudice
• Canadians abroad - the government may not help if you run into trouble
• More funding cuts to NGOs
  
• Experts assess compliance by Department of Finance with law requiring human rights in international aid
  
• Efforts to make human rights matter in World Bank are moving forward, despite reluctance of governments

Spring 2010

Feature: “World in Crisis”

The environment, poverty, conflict, resource scarcity - is there hope for the future?
We get the opinions of:

Paul Martin
Elizabeth May
George Stroumboulopoulos
William Watson

Other stories:

• The West Africa orphanage business - children’s welfare comes second to profit
• The killing of rights defenders - Chechnya,
  The Philippines
• No independent thought allowed - Uzbekistan after Andijan
• Ethiopia dam project stirs local opposition - gets African Development Bank financing, but World Bank hesitates

Eye on Ottawa:

• Why Canada doesn’t support the latest UN move to strengthen economic, social and cultural rights
  
• The Canadian government attack on KAIROS and other NGOs
  
• Government's rights organization in crisis

Cover: Ruqia Aroo, 80, carries her malnourished grandson near the carcasses of her dead herd of cattle, 1100 kms south east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by George Mulala/IRIN

November 2009

"Exclusion"

• Dalits in Bangladesh
  A the bottom of society, fighting for a voice
• Honduras beaches
  Local Garifuna organization claims tourism development means increased repression
• Homosexuality and Africa - a deadly combination
  State-sponsored oppression and the impact on the HIV /AIDS epidemic
• Financial vultures
  Poor countries pay millions to private collectors on old, often forgotten, debts
• Second class in Hong Kong
  Domestic workers come for the work, risking exploitation, and are permanently excluded from citizenship
• Landgrabs in Cambodia
  Evictions of poor communities are common as demand for land rises

Eye on the World Bank and IMF

• In the corridors, the Upstream’s editor checks out the winds of policy change
• Book review: “Moving Out of Poverty”

Eye on Ottawa

• Canada’s new law on accountability in foreign aid, and why it’s not working
• Ernie Schibli’s Opinion
  Canada’s reluctance to condemn the Honduras coup

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June 2009

"Mining - The cost of China's Coal, Congo's Coltan and the Bauxite of Kashipur"

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Feb 2009 Graffiti art and other communication for social change.

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• Grafitti as social protest
• Voices of dissent - Amy Goodman and independent media
• Talking strongly” - Indigenous media in Australia
• Media poetics and cattle - Colombia community radio, language and power
• Container tech - Jamaican community retrofits shipping container into creative computing centre
• Le grand saut technologique et la “nouvelle économie” - au secours des pays en développement?
• The financial crisis and the future for Canada’s foreign aid

• The World Bank doesn’t have - and doesn’t want - human rights standards in its projects