Amid a harsh government clapdown on opposing voices in Egypt, exiled opposition figures are challenging state-imposed narratives from abroad – and impacting politics back home.

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.

For more than a decade, families have accused the Bangladeshi state of abducting their loved ones and tirelessly campaigned for justice. Now, a new administration is finally acknowledging their pain.

As the Maduro regime’s grip on the media tightened, a group of activists went offline to bring news directly to the people. Thanks to BusTV, many Venezuelans now access uncensored information – not through an electronic screen but on their commute home or in their local town square.