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Shepherdesses smashing stereotypes: The women reviving ancient traditions for a sustainable future

Shepherds and their flocks are integral to the history of European culture and ecology. Now, a new generation of pastoralists – from migrants escaping underpaid care work, to science graduates looking for tangible ways to protect the planet – are rewriting patriarchal traditions to preserve it for the future.
Iran’s internet blackout shows an increasingly powerful tool to reign in democratic movements
Venezuela without Venezuelans
Nigerian women farmers trapped between climate shocks and microfinance debt
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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“We can only get out of here if we die”: How EU funds to help Roma communities are reinforcing isolation, prejudice and exclusion

Roma people are routinely excluded from jobs, housing and public services. Yet tens of billions of euros to promote Roma inclusion are vanishing into projects with no transparency or measurable impacts. Our investigation found evidence of some of this EU money being spent on displacing or demonizing Roma communities in Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia and Italy.
Children walk alongside a border fence with the shadow of security over them

Growing up too fast: Children struggle with aftermath of state violence in India-Bangladesh border villages

India and Bangladesh share a 4,000 kilometer-long border, which looms large for children of living alongside it, particularly those whose parents have suffered abuse at the hands of the Border Security Force.
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The other France: Why Ultramarins are foreigners in their own country

France is a far bigger and more diverse nation than even many French people acknowledge. In hanging on to former colonies, the Republic promised its overseas citizens the same rights as those on the mainland. In practice, they suffer from chronic underinvestment locally, and systemic prejudice if they relocate to the center of power.

Ecology and extractivism

Vietnamese activists’ dilemma: Go public and risk reprisals, or go undercover and go it alone

Arrests of high-profile campaigns suggest that even those working on government-approved green initiatives with international backing aren’t safe from Vietnam’s crackdown on environmental activism. But some warn that staying below the radar can be even more dangerous.

Capulálpam de Méndez: A struggle for land and memory

After a Canadian mining company challenged a Zapotec community’s Indigenous identity, recalling the ancestral names of sacred landmarks helped reinvigorate their connection to the land – and defend it from extractive industries.

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?
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

“We can only get out of here if we die”: How EU funds to help Roma communities are reinforcing isolation, prejudice and exclusion
Roma people are routinely excluded from jobs, housing and public services. Yet tens of billions of euros to promote Roma inclusion are vanishing into projects with no transparency or measurable impacts. Our investigation found evidence of some of this EU money being spent on displacing or demonizing Roma communities in Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia and Italy.
Children walk alongside a border fence with the shadow of security over them
Growing up too fast: Children struggle with aftermath of state violence in India-Bangladesh border villages
India and Bangladesh share a 4,000 kilometer-long border, which looms large for children of living alongside it, particularly those whose parents have suffered abuse at the hands of the Border Security Force.

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