By Omar Hamed.
Youth rise up against low pay and discriminaton with Supersizemypay.com

Between August and October 2005 a group of dedicated students from Athena Montessori College in Wellington started investigating poverty.

They ended up painting a mural at the intersection of Ghuznee and Willis Streets in Wellington.

Big props to the students from Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti in Christchurch who ran a rally in the Square and held a forum about poverty.

By Cameron Walker

World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) claim to have the noble aims of helping third world nations to finance the building of infrastructure and to bridge balance of payments difficulties. However, many claim both institutions help ruin the economies of Third World nations through forced structural adjustment programmes.

By Nicole Mathewson

What do Chris Martin (Coldplay), Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Antonio Banderas and Alanis Morrisette have in common with a sack of corn?

By Geoff Cooper, Auckland
Ever get the feeling that the more you find out about your world, the less you wish you knew? Is it simply that the human race is incompetent at managing the planet and people? Or perhaps that our attempts at global euphoria have just gone badly astray?

By Samantha Davidson. Odd, but true: some New Zealand teenagers (or their parents) are forking over $160 for a single item of clothing, while not even being able to get enough together for school fees.

Did you know that almost one in every three young New Zealanders lives in poverty? Children and young people in New Zealand also have the fifth highest rate of death from maltreatment in the developed world and are more at risk from human rights abuses than any other group.

By Cameron Walker, Auckland. So it turns out the new hoodie that was going to make you feel good and like you fit in (finally) for just the small price of $149.95 was actually made by an under-paid, over-worked young woman in Asia. Yeah. Still feeling good?

As we spin further into the twenty-first century our world remains a divided place. For a lucky few there is plenty; for most there is none.

By Mike Lamont. Life in Brazil. What you see takes your breath away and leaves you with a feeling of disgust