As bombs fall and power shifts, Venezuela is reframed as a geopolitical case study, while the voices of those living through the crisis are pushed aside. The gap between global commentary and lived reality turns human crisis into abstraction and exposes what is lost when journalism explains power while erasing the people who endure it, writes Gabriela Ramirez.
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.
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.
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.
An undercovered aspect of wars is how they destroy the landscape of countries, from uprooting trees and destroying irrigation systems to polluting the soil with heavy metals from weapons. The effects can last for decades, causing ongoing pain to the ecosystem and its inhabitants.
Extracting granite from mines in Karnataka is back-breaking labor that produces breathtaking wealth. But some of the laborers who do this work allege caste violence, bonded servitude and even sexual abuse at the hands of their bosses. One family tells their story.
Behind the scenes of our latest story: Editor Tina Lee looks at an epidemic of sexist harassment enabled by messaging apps and social media.
Behind the scenes: our editor Purple Romero asks, can marginalized groups use social media to challenge and change the narrative?
Once dehumanized in local media, the LGBTQI+ community in Zimbabwe are now showing how human they are – through social media.
Facial recognition technology is severely limited by racial and gender bias. As India seeks to build one of the world’s largest facial databases, activists fear the impact for minorities beyond black and white.
