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San Pedro Sochiapam: First the birdsong, then the whistles

In a remote community enveloped in cloudforest, a whistled form of the Indigenous Chinantec language is perfectly adapted to the land and its weather. But who needs whistles when you can use WhatsApp?
Workers, miners, citizens cross paths in front of a factory and lake
Foreign capital, local burden: Who benefits from mining in Bosnia? 
“We can only get out of here if we die”: How EU funds to help Roma communities are reinforcing isolation, prejudice and exclusion
A woman with grocery bags walks on a cracked desert with oversized tomatoes surrounding her
Dollar stores, diesel fumes and food sovereignty in Chicago’s frontline communities
On the verge of silence: Why Oaxaca’s biodiversity needs Indigenous languages to survive
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We are facing a global crisis of biodiversity loss that has been called planet Earth’s sixth mass extinction. At the same time, it is estimated that a language goes extinct every two weeks. These two processes are intertwined.

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Migration

How migrant women in the UK are breaking the isolation around maternal mental health

“The people who face the most barriers are often those who need our care the most – and yet their voices are not the ones we hear in maternity care." ​
A woman stands with a broom in one hand and a child in the other, defending her land against encroaching fire

Community in La Cañada Real: The women defending Spain’s biggest informal settlement

For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. Authorities are starving the community of basic infrastructure and demolishing homes. But women are pushing back against eviction and uniting against oppression from outside their community and within.

Ecology and extractivism

A heated building facade is pulled aside to reveal a cool oasis in a city

Twenty degrees apart: How urban inequality drives indoor heat in Paris and Barcelona

While European cities face record-shattering heat due to climate change, not all residents are affected equally. Indoor heat sensors show scorching temps in areas with lower-income housing, compounded by neglectful urban planning and pollution- a combination that is creating health risks in urban peripheries.
Hundreds of white graves speckle a black hill
1000 Lives, 0 Names: 
The Border Graves Investigation
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What happens to those who die in their attempts to reach the European Union? How are their lives marked, how can their families honor them? How do governments recognize their existence and their basic rights as human beings?

Conflict and state violence

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Opinion: El Salvador is the far-right’s dream crypto-carceral state – and it’s failing
With El Salvador's disturbing prison deal with the US in the spotlight, Lya Cuéllar takes a look back at how her country has fared under the self-styled "World's Coolest Dictator."
Mothers on a Mission: Uruguay’s movement for the missing
Forty years after the fall of Uruguay’s military dictatorship, the families of the disappeared are still demanding answers. Slowly but surely – through alliances that span politics, forensics, law, history and anthropology – they are casting light into the darkest recesses of their country’s past, in hope of a brighter future.

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