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Articles in Jan-Feb, 2004 issue of New Internationalist

• Give a dog a bone - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Blood money: women take on hard-line Islam in a campaign for equal rights - Currents
  by Tim Elliott
• Power makes you proud
  by Laura Hershey
• Gem in a world of rocks; former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez explains why he puts his faith in co-operatives - Co-operative Working
  by Oscar Arias Sanchez
• Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
  by Peter Whittaker
• Just intervention - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Bhutan kicks goals for well-being
  by Clare Doube
• Strong & smart: Aboriginal children are expected to do poorly at school. Teacher Chris Sarra blasts away the prejudice - Race
  by Chris Sarra
• Equality in action
• Brazil - Country Profile
  by Sue Branford
• Oil campaigns - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Young people face facts
• I was born white …: Mark Minchinton makes a personal—and national—journey to a suppressed indigenous past - Race
  by Mark Minchinton
• Best of the year: music - Mixed Media
• Department X: what passes for news in the Middle East leaves most of the news unreported. Sa'eda Kilani considers the consequences - The Middle East
  by Sa'eda Kilani
• Put on the pressure - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Oilisms: first of an occasional series in which Adam Porter ventures into the muckier reaches of big oil - Human Rights
• Betrayal: equality for women was non-existent in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. But is the situation any better today? Mariam Rawi of the revolutionary association of women of Afghanistan reports - Women
  by Mariam Rawi
• Best of the year: books - Mixed Media
• Things fall into place: news from Africa generally makes for grim reading. But every year there are many positive stories from the continent which go unnoticed by the global media—and 2003 was no exception, as Adam Ma'anit explains - Africa
  by Adam Ma'anit
• Caption trouble - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Brukman workers win their factory - Currents
  by Ivan Briscoe
• The facts measures of equality: equality—and its opposite cannot be measured in numbers and calculations alone. Neverthess the statistics can be quite revealing
• Best of the year: film +video - Mixed Media
• The welfare of strangers; remittances home from Latin Americans abroad have become big business—with a difference. Michael McCaughan explores the paradoxical results - Latin America
  by Michael McCaughan
• From this month's editor
  by Vanessa Baird
• Free choice - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Elephant - Word Corner
  by Susan Watkin
• Each in their place: caste and class are both complex defence systems against equality. But they have important differences too. Mari Marcel Thekaekara takes a look at the evil twins from an Indian perspective - Caste & Class
  by Mari Marcel Thekaekara
• Defixiones, Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead
• The cost of war
• Costly paradox - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Correction - Correction Notice
• One step forward, two steps back: China's new environmental assessment procedure waters down opposition to damming - Currents
  by Chris Richards
• The self I will never know: Esther Morris, born with an intersex condition, writes about the scandal of 'corrective surgery' whereby thousands of children are mutilated without consent - Sexual & Gender Diversity
  by Esther Morris
• Bowmboi
• Marching orders: Fred Weir describes the creeping authoritarianism that is gradually taking hold of the world's biggest country and its immediate neighbours - Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Republics
  by Fred Weir
• Low paid and legal - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Satellite wars: how you like your news cooked depends on where you're coming from. Reem Haddad on the surge in Arab media - Letter from Lebanon
  by Reem Haddad
• Seriously … true tales of the absurd: tales from the front - Currents
• A few thoughts on equality
• Modern Jihad Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
• The fire this time: Dionne Bunsha on the slow burn of deepening poverty - South Asia
  by Dionne Bunsha
• Fundamental disappointment - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Southern exposure
  by Sebastiao Salgado
• Tales of sheer front - Currents
• Do we really want equality? An interview with writer and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips
  by Adam Phillips
• Asiye's Story
  by Erin Gill
• Ballots, guns and money; as East Asia and the Pacific reach out towards the global economy, the region is still struggling with democracy. Rowan Callick takes stock - East Asia and Pacific
  by Rowan Callick
• Toxic shock - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Odysseys - View from the South
  by Eduardo Galeano's
• Equality's progress: Vanessa Baird charts the passage of a troubled ideal - Keynote
  by Vanessa Baird
• Another coinage: if you love your family, go out and get a job—on the other side of the world. Jeremy Seabrook looks at what globalization is doing to intimate human bonds - Economics
  by Jeremy Seabrook
• The Barbarian Invasions
  by Malcolm Lewis