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Articles in July, 2005 issue of New Internationalist

• Hariri's loss
  by Grace Gorman
• Japan
• Bjork: Army of Me
  by Louise Gray
• Citizen woman
  by Maria Corinthios
• China: demonstrable discontent
  by Lia Xiabo
• Riding for their lives: Daoud Khan's photo essay on the use of children as camel-racing jockeys in the United Arab Emirates
  by Daoud Khan
• Slowly, slowly …
  by Bill McNicholas
• Nepal
• La Juderia
  by Louise Gray
• Shock therapy
  by George Sanders
• Buried alive: Bangladeshi factory collapse highlights dangerous conditions in global sweatshops
• Somalia
  by Maggie Black
• Not to blame
  by Paul Bennett
• Pakistan
• Interview with Israel's Refuseniks
• Pope Benedict XVI
• Word power: the language of the environment
  by Mitchell
• Brazil throws Microsoft out of the Windows
  by Sholto Macpherson
• Raiders of the lost park: true tales of a mixed-up world
• Safe distance
  by Ian McKissack
• Further reading
• A test of wills: explosions rock Reem Haddad's beloved Beirut—and out of the cave of fear, new-found courage emerges
  by Reem Haddad
• Combatting caste Mari Marcel Thekaekara reports from India on the stink of untouchability and how those most affected are trying to remove it
• Basta!
  by Kim Armstrong
• Fiction/autobiography
• View from the top: KR Narayanan was India's first and only Dalit President from 1997 to 2002. Mari Marcel Thekaekara found him ready to speak his mind
  by Mari Marcel Thekaekara
• The choice: when Manami Mori, a non-Buraku, fell in love with a Buraku man the path was suddenly strewn with thorns. This is an extract from her story
  by Manami Mori
• Southern exposure: highlighting the work of photographers from the majority world
  by Onnik Krikorian
• The caste system
• I, a Brahmin: UR Ananthamurthy is an Indian poet and writer famous for his outspokenness on issues of caste. He is also a Brahmin
  by U.R. Ananthamurthy
• Ao Toa: Earth Warriors
• Tied to the job: caste remains a curse in many African countries. While people there are rarely killed because of it, discrimination against what are known as 'caste' people is common. Work and descent remain the binding factors, says Tidiane Kasse
  by Tidiane Kasse
• On football
  by Eduardo Galeano
• Caste out: blatant rather than latent, caste is still alive—and kicking—in the West. Nikki van der Gaag reports
  by Nikki van der Gaag
• International
• Shell Shock The Secrets and Spin of an Oil Giant
• Hearts of darkness: massive military build-up coincides with Halliburton's arrival in West Papua
  by Eben Kriksey
• Caste: One in every 25 people suffers from caste discrimination based on the kind of work they do and their family origins. That is around 250-300 million people globally and 179 million in India alone. Many countries have laws against discrimination, som
• From this month's editors
  by Mari Marcel Thekaekara
• Britain
• Stop the War The story of Britain's biggest mass movement
• South Africa's prickly pear spikes poverty
  by Troth Wells
• Mariamma's Shame: an extract from a story by Bama, one of the first Dalit women writers to be recognized and translated
  by Bama
• Unwise reduction
  by Pippa Wilde
• Canada
• Moolaade
  by Louise Gray
• Ethiopia: local people are out, wildlife is in
• Between a rock and a hard place
  by Sagar Bishwakarma
• On the lookout
  by Richard Harvey
• India
• Czech Dream
  by Louise Gray
• Bolivar's broom: public protests sweep through Argentina
  by Donald Lee
• The blacksmith and the noble: stories that tell how castes came to be formed are no tall tales for people in Burkina Faso