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Dinyar Godrej

Dinyar Godrej has been associated with New Internationalist since 1989, but joined as an editor in 2000. His interest in human rights has led him to focus on subjects like world hunger, torture, landmines, present day slavery and healthcare. His belief in listening to people who seldom get a chance to represent themselves led to unorthodox editions on (and by) street children and people with disabilities from the Majority World. He grew up in India and remains engaged with South Asian affairs.

Dinyar wrote the original No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change (2001) and edited Fire In The Soul (2009).

An early fascination with human creative endeavour endures. He has recently taken to throwing pots in his free time.

Articles by Dinyar Godrej

Hindu women offer prayers to the sun god by venturing into the foam-coated waters of the Yamuna River (a major tributary of the Ganges) in New Delhi, India. The river is responsible for 70 per cent of the city’s water supply but is severely polluted at this stretch. Recently city authorities have taken to deploying blowers to push back the foam from the banks during festivals, so that the faithful can take a holy dip. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
We need thriving rivers in order for life on Earth to flourish. But often how we treat them shows little understanding of this...
Ditching planet-popping expansion for justice is a vision worth getting behind, says Dinyar Godrej.
Economic migrants from rural areas at work on a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya. Such jobs are usually temporary, sometimes just a day’s labour. NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY/ALAMY
To ensure a fairer future we will need to tackle business as usual, says Dinyar Godrej.
From left to right: Bullseye harlequin poison dart frog from the rainforest of Colombia. Dirk Ercken/Alamy; A conservationist demonstrates to a class of schoolchildren the whooping crane costume used to rear chicks. Nature and Science/Alamy; Andatu, the first Sumatran rhinoceros born in captivity in Indonesia. Reynold Sumakyu/Alamy
Four case histories of extraordinary efforts to save threatened species. 
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist
An interview with environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim.
A majestic Indian tiger on the prowl. India’s tiger numbers are up – to roughly 3,000 from fewer than 2,000 in 1970 – as a result of a massive conservation effort. But it has also forcibly displaced many tribal peoples, who had lived sucessfully with the animals, from their ancestral lands. PANORAMIC IMAGES/ALAMY
As the alarm sounds on the sixth mass extinction, Dinyar Godrej squares up to what we need to do to avert it.
A car cleaner in Monrovia, Liberia. Informal workers have been hardest hit by lockdown measures. TOMMY E TRENCHARD/ALAMY
Economies in a tailspin will need a different vision to steady them, believes Dinyar Godrej.
Cuban Health Specialists arriving in South Africa to curb the spread of COVID-19/GovernmentZAFlickr
A global pandemic demands we think in terms of global health, not vaccine nationalism, argues Dinyar Godrej.
DAVID MERCADO/REUTERS
The globalized garment industry is as ruthless as they come, creaming off huge profits while paying workers a pittance. Trade...
President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, a critic of Western influence over his country, meets with US President John F Kennedy. There may have been smiles all around but Nkrumah’s cards were marked. ABBIE ROWE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Poverty between – and within – nations doesn’t just exist. It is created and needs constant maintenance. 
 Wary looks: Ntombekhaya Sobuza and little sister Asanele outside their shack constructed  from packaging materials from a Volkswagen plant, on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. JAMES OATWAY/PANOS 
Poverty is not down to chance or bad choices. It’s hard wired into a deeply unequal economic system. But it doesn’t have to be...
The UN expert on housing explains how, almost overnight, private equity firms became the biggest landlords in the world.

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