Browse Van der Gaag, Nikki

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Title	Type	Date	Words
Girl power? What is really happening to girls in a post-feminist world.		Jul 1, 2007	499
Pedalling to Hawaii.	Book review	May 1, 2006	258
Caste out: blatant rather than latent, caste is still alive--and kicking--in the West. Nikki van der Gaag reports.		Jul 1, 2005	1781
From this month's editor.	Editorial	Nov 1, 2004	284
Nikki van der Gaag looks at what women have gained in the fight for equality with men--and what they are in danger of losing.		Nov 1, 2004	2725
A woman's rite: they call it 'something of which you should never speak', though many African countries have now explicitly outlawed the practice. Not so in the Gambia, Nikki van der Gaag discovers.		Nov 1, 2004	1144
Fish money: for most of the world's population, daily life is based on often unspoken agreements between men and women. Nikki van der Gaag reports from the Gambian coastal village of Gunjur.		Nov 1, 2004	991
The other side of silence: women are still being beaten and killed by their husbands and partners, but they are finding ways to fight back. Nikki van der Gaag reports.		Nov 1, 2004	1967
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women. (Mixed Media).	Book Review	Nov 1, 2002	156
Pick your poison: ... the price we pay for using pesticides.		May 1, 2000	3354
Crossed bills and broken eggs: many pesticides are now suspected endocrine disruptors ...		May 1, 2000	1540
Iraq: this month's theme (travel to the pariah state is both arduous and potentially damaging professionally).		Sep 1, 1999	527
Iraq: the pride and the pain: Nikki van der Gaag finds that human rights have a different meaning when viewed from Baghdad.		Sep 1, 1999	2726
By the rivers of Babylon: Nikki van_der_Gaag gets a rare glimpse of the temples and palaces of ancient Iraq, all closed since the Gulf War.		Sep 1, 1999	920
Axing the factory (UNSCOM inspectors destroy a veterinary medicines factory in Iraq, claiming it served as a chemical weapons plant).		Sep 1, 1999	189
Life in the danger zone: Nikki van der Gaag reports on why the citizens of Mosul can't get a decent night's sleep.		Sep 1, 1999	1856
Tales from the road: everyone on the hair-raising coach ride through the empty desert to Jordan has their own story to tell ...		Sep 1, 1999	1670
Voices in the wilderness: Nikki van der Gaag speaks to the sanctions-busters.		Sep 1, 1999	1104
Poverty.	Editorial	Mar 1, 1999	469
Poverty: challenging the myths: being poor is about not having enough money. Or is it?		Mar 1, 1999	2879
Salima Ghezali: Nikki van der Gaag speaks to a prominent Algerian feminist whose courageous journalism keeps her in almost constant danger.		Oct 1, 1998	973
Reproductive rights.	Editorial	Jul 1, 1998	360
Of woman born: ... labyrinth of contraception, pregnancy, birth - and politics.		Jul 1, 1998	2295
Muhammed Abu El Haija: ... Arab, Palestinian, Israeli; men determined in his fight for equal citizenship.		Mar 1, 1998	920
No hiding place: human rights are not just concerned with abuse, torture and firing squads - they are about healing the desperate divisions of our world.		Jan 1, 1998	4064
Gene dream: Nikki van der Gaag finds out what is going on in the secretive world of genetic engineering.		Aug 1, 1997	2963
Farid Eysack: Nikki van der Gaag meets Farid Eysack, a gracious but determined Muslim who uses Islam to fight for the poor.		Apr 1, 1997	968
Daring to dance: even at the darkest hour there is light. Nikki van der Gaag travels to Croatia to meet women peace activists from some of the world's most bitter ... conflicts.		Jan 1, 1997	1617
Killing the dream: Nikki van der Gaag seeks the lates news from Ikafe, the refugee settlement she visited in northern Uganda - and finds that all is far from well.		Jan 1, 1997	875