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 NI
(No.364)
<<CONTENTS>>
9 Equality's progress
It's been a tough time for equality. But is it really 'an endangered
species', as some have suggested? Vanessa Baird takes stock.
14 Strong
& smart
Teacher Chris Sarra is turning upside-down ideas about what
Aboriginal kids can and can't do.
15 I was born
white
Mark Minchinton undertakes a journey back to his - and his
country's - Aboriginal roots.
Equality watch:
Race & ethnicity
17 Betrayal
Two years after the liberation of Afghanistan, are its women really
free? Reports from Mariam Rawi and Jamila Mujahed.
Equality watch:
Women & men
20 MEASURES
OF EQUALITY - THE FACTS
22 Each in
their place
There's caste and there's class. And in some places the two intertwine.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara writes from India, where the struggle
for Dalit rights is gathering strength.
Equality watch:
Caste & class
25 The self
I will never know
Genital mutilation of intersex children occurs on a daily basis. Esther
Morris explains why it must stop - and why intersex needs to become
the 'gay rights' of the 21st century.
Equality watch:
Sexual & gender minorities
28 A few thoughts
on equality
Diverse theories at a glance.
30 Do we really
want equality
Writer and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips asks some tricky questions.
31 Another
coinage
Jeremy Seabrook counts the emotional costs to migrant labour
in a globalized world.
Equality watch:
Rich & poor
33 Gem in
a world of rocks
What the co-op movement can do for equality, by Costa Rica's former
President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias Sánchez.
Equality watch:
Fair work, fair trade
35 ACTION:
Contacts and resources
<Regular
Features>
2 Letters
4 Southern
Exposure
The funeral of seven Mexican peasants killed by rightwing paramilitaries,
by the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
5 View from
the South
The 12th and final installment of Eduardo Galeano's Windows
series: Odysseys.
6 Currents
Iranian women fight the 'medieval' practice of blood money; greasy
palms on the dirty side of the oil industry; China's new environmentalists;
facts on global youth.
PLUS: Big Bad World
PLUS: Word Corner - Elephant
36 The Jumbo
NI Prize Crossword
With a jumbo prize to match.
37 Mixed Media
The best films, books and music of 2003 along with the new reviews.
40 Country
Profile - Brazil
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