Here’s what the team at Unbias the News has been reading this summer!
In most parts of Cameroon, the news is what the newsmaker wants it to be, and a brown envelope with cash can buy anyone exactly the news they want the public to hear.
A cynical observer of their battles with the judiciary and fines from the EU over “rule of law” might ask if they named themselves after what they intended to trample over.
“I saw that the children were malnourished, blackened teeth and gum issues were common and women frequently reported miscarriages and still births. All of these issues quickly made me realize that this area probably had lead.”
How a Namibian freelance journalist dealt with Western Media’s exploitative practice, accounts of mining for local contacts, the personal stories, and sentiments from across Africa.
Over two days of travelling across Rivers State with Junior, he will tell us in bits that revealing anything that can lead back to him will put him at risk of arrest, harassment, or even death from either state or non-state actors.
Port Maria, a town with a rich and sprawling history, is a case study of how devastating even a small rise in sea level can be for small islands in the tropical regions of the world.
The Russian war displaced more than half of Ukraine’s children. Here’s a story of one.
Anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros has asserted a very striking phrase: “The indigenous people are specialists in the end of the world, since theirs ended in 1500,” referring to the year the Portuguese landed in Brazil.
“My mother informed me a few weeks ago that some army officials were looking for me and I needed to visit some camp. When I heard that I started shivering.
Behind the scenes of our latest story: who suffers when surveillance technology is unleashed on a diverse population?
Can society be equal without equal rights to inherit? Behind an undercovered issue that reduces women’s chances to build prosperity.
Behind the scenes of “Exploitation Across Borders”, our new story following Indian laborers fighting for their wages in Serbia.
What comes to mind when you think of your country? Behind the scenes of our latest story,”Mind the Gaze.”
Behind the scenes of “I wouldn’t take no for an answer”, the story of a woman fighting for women escaping abuse in rural India.
Can music bring unity beyond populism? Editor Zahra Salah Uddin goes behind the scenes of our latest story, looking at how pop music is bringing people together in Spain.
Our editor Ankita Anand goes behind the scenes of our latest story, “When Help Hurts,” which asks whether people with disabilities have an equal right to consent.
In Karachi, Pakistan where monsoon rain often means days without electricity, flooded roads and property damaged, at the end of the day is it truly a rehmat (blessing) from nature or ongoing zehmat (misery) for city dwellers?
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.
In Washington state, a long tradition of prison activism is being continued by Vincent “Tank” Sherill, inmate at Monroe Correctional Facility
What it takes to change attitudes and secure women’s rights to inherit property.
Indian migrant workers fight for their right to get paid in Serbia
What’s missing when Mongolia is seen through the eyes of foreign correspondents.
How a solidarity-based sisterhood movement spread across rural India.
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