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Technology justice（公正なテクノロジー）

【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
6 Government garbage U-turn in Lebanon
6 Torture tactics in Tibet
7 Afghan women’s rights on bikes
7 Introducing Andrew Holness
7 Kenya’s stateless Shona
8 Surfer girls defy convention in Bangladesh
8 Britain stands with Bahraini oppressors
9 Semantically engineered crops
9 Banished Petroleum
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by cartoonist Simon Kneebone and Reasons to be Cheerful.


【The Big Story】Technology justice
10 Technology as if people mattered
The world’s poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.
15 Mind the technology gap - THE FACTS
16 ’Because the river told me’
Peasant farmers resisting the violence of agribusiness. By Nils McCune.
19 Male baldness v malaria?
Simon Trace on the skewed priorities of medical research.
20 Switched on
Technology that works.
22 The energy fix
What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.
24 The Disrupted
Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.
Features
28 The duty to care for our common home
Femke Wijdekop makes the case for Ecocide to become a crime under international law.
32 Military fatigues and floral scarves
Rahila Gupta meets women fighters in Rojava who are leading the charge towards a radical democracy.

【Opinion】
31 Chris Coltrane
Regulation Top Trumps.
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

【Mixed Media】
34 Music reviews
The Woman at the End of the World by Elza Soares; Highlife-Jazz and Afro-Soul by Fela Ransome Kuti and his Koola Lobitos.
35 Film reviews
Suburra, directed by Stefano Sollima; Heaven Knows What, directed by Ben and Joshua Safdie; Mustang, directed by Deniz Gamze Erguven.
36 Book reviews
Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi; Saving the Media by Julia Cage; Crossing the Sea with Syrians on the exodus to Europe by Wolfgang Bauer; Counter Narratives by John Keene.
PLUS: Also out there.

【Regulars】
4 Letters
Democracy under attack; why the West rejects refugees; and fair tax on the Isle of Man.
5 Letter from Bangui
The importance of communication should not be underestimated, writes Ruby Diamonde.
26 Country Profile: Nigeria
38 And Finally
Feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem talks to Graeme Green about travel, change and the road ahead.