About this site

Print edition
- 4 week free trial
- About the paper

- Read digital paper
- View a sample
- Renew your sub
- Give a gift
- Student discount
- Subscribe

More content

On this site

Partner sites

Lead article photo

Environment: race against time

Viewpoint: June's G8 summit saw western leaders plan to hold increases in world temperature and carbon dioxide emissions. It's progressive, but Bill McKibben asks - what else needs to be done and can it be done before it's too late?

Article photoWeekly Web Watch: July 17 2009

Editor's blog: Andy Checkley presents a roundup of this week's internet highlights, from the internet's 20th birthday to an exhibition of garden 'gnazis'

Article photoLiberia: 'Women have have undergone awful injuries'

Health: Lucy Wonder Barh is a midwife at John F Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. She describes the battle to save the lives of women and babies in a country scarred by war and disease

Article photoClimate change: Indian farmers driven to suicide

Fragile planet: Engineer turned farmer Kishore Tiwari has spearheaded protests against farmer’s suicides in Vidarbha. He describes the woes of farmers affected by a lack of rain due to climate change

1997: Letter from Bondi beach

90th anniversary: In 1997 Jackie Lublin wrote a Letter from Bondi beach – one of the most recognisable beaches in the world. She describes the water, the waves and the Japanese tourists

Transgenderism: 'Society can be cruel'

India: Dr Manabi Banerjee underwent a sex change operation to become a woman in 2003, in Kolkata. She describes how, despite suffering torture and intimidation, she earned a doctorate and became a college lecturer

Uluru: 'Why we shouldn't climb it'

Viewpoint: Visitors face a ban on climbing Uluru. Kate Bevan, who has visited the rock, describes why she feels Uluru is better viewed from the ground

Indonesia: 'I will be so scared if they are elected'

Politics: On July 8 2009, Indonesians voted to elect their president and vice president for only the second time since independence nearly 64 years ago. Putri Setiawati describes the atmosphere

The latest from My Guardian Weekly