Maxine Betteridge-Moes

London

Digital Editor at New Internationalist

Journalist at Freelance

digital editor @newint

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Articles

UK aid cuts are a symptom of our broken economic model

2 months ago | newint.org | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Aid agencies across the UK are reeling from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s surprise announcement this week to increase military spending at the expense of foreign aid. On 25 February, Starmer said defence spending would rise to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2027 – three years earlier than planned.
‘Perseverance is the only way’: an interview with Anoosheh Ashoori

Nov 11, 2024 | newint.org | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

As a child, Anoosheh Ashoori wanted to become an astronaut. After finishing secondary school in Iran he travelled to Britain to study engineering, before returning in 1982 following the Iranian revolution. He married his wife Sherry in 1984 and together they made the permanent move back to Britain. ‘My retired life started and we were happy. I was never politically motivated. Never in my wildest dreams could I have thought about what would happen,’ says the British-Iranian dual national.
Love Locked up

Sep 2, 2024 | newint.org | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

During the last eight years of their nearly 21 years of marriage, Claude Mangin and her husband Naâma Asfari have seen each other just once. Asfari is currently serving a 30 year sentence in Kenitra prison in Morocco where he faces charges for participating in a 2010 protest in Laayoune against Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a former Spanish colony that Rabat claims as its own.
Fertile Ground: Who's behind Ethiopia's anti-abortion movement?

May 5, 2024 | newint.org | Bethany Rielly |Maxine Betteridge-Moes |Maya Misikir

in the shadows‘It looks like nothing is happening, but they are strongly working under the surface,’ Abebe Shibru, MSI’s country director says from his office in the Bole area of Addis. Recently, he notes, opposition tactics have shifted. ‘Before, the anti-choice groups were targeting the public, they were more visible, shouting, demonstrating and telling people abortion is a sin,’ he says.
Poland's abortion turning point

Apr 22, 2024 | newint.org | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

When Polish feminist activist Natalia Broniarcyzk was invited to speak about abortion rights on the country’s rightwing television network Republika TV, she was hesitant. It was 7 April, less than a week before a highly contentious parliamentary vote on proposed abortion laws that could determine the future of abortion access in one of Europe’s most restrictive countries.
With all eyes on Gaza, Morocco strengthens its hold on Western Sahara

Apr 15, 2024 | newint.org | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Running conditions are usually not the first consideration one makes when travelling to the Algerian desert. But on 28 February, I joined approximately 200 runners from around the world to take part in the Sahara Marathon, an event that aims to raise awareness for Sahrawi refugees living in desert camps near the town of Tindouf. It's here that the Sahrawis have been living for nearly 50 years in exile from their homeland of Western Sahara.
Gazan para-cyclists deliver aid on bikes

Mar 27, 2024 | newint.org | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

When Palestine’s top professional cyclist Alaa al-Dali was shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper in 2019, it could have ended his athletic career forever. Al-Dali was one of at least 35,600 mostly peaceful protesters injured by targeted attacks during months-long rallies along the Gaza-Israel border to protest against Israel’s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip and demand the right to return to their ancestral homes. Palestinians called it ‘The Great March of Return’.
Morocco’s Weaponization of Migration in Western Sahara Conflict

Feb 26, 2024 | thecontrapuntal.com | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Elghalia Djimi was on her way to apply for a visa at the Spanish Consulate in Rabat when she was followed by Moroccan security forces. Now in her sixties, the Saharawi human rights activist lives in El Aaiun, the capital of Western Sahara, and she is used to being on the authorities’ radar. When she was in her twenties, she was the victim of ‘enforced disappearance’ at the hands of the Moroccan authorities for protesting against the military occupation of Western Sahara since 1976.
'Either we move beyond capitalism, or we die'

Feb 5, 2024 | newint.org | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Yanis Varoufakis rose to global notoriety as the leftwing economist who resigned as Greek finance minister in 2015, after refusing to sign a bail-out deal being pushed on Greece by the mighty Troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Now a highly influential and outspoken author, whistleblower and activist, Varoufakis is the subject of a new six-part documentary series from filmmaker Raoul Martinez.
In Kurdistan, a feminist NGO pushes for more abortion rights

Dec 14, 2023 | english.alaraby.co.uk | Maxine Betteridge-Moes

A local NGO is leading the first campaign of its kind to expand women’s legal access to abortion in Iraqi Kurdistan. When 21-year-old Tre* found out she was pregnant, she was shocked and panicked. As an unmarried woman in Iraqi Kurdistan, she was using protection because she was not ready to have a baby. After missing her period, she went to a local clinic for an ultrasound. When the doctor congratulated on her pregnancy, she burst into tears. “This shouldn’t be happening to me.