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.
“The president of Ukraine gives his people hope, ours says ‘grit your teeth to endure the crisis,’” said one protest organizer.
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“I heard the noise of a scouting plane… It was so close. I knew it was going to fall down, but I did not imagine it would crash into my farmland,” says Amin*, who rushed at the time to see the flames devouring his land.
Media in North Macedonia still have a tendency to sensationalise coverage of gender-based violence and point the finger of blame at the victim, but activists and experts believe this can change.
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.
New music in Spain offers an alternative sense of belonging in a polarized country.
Is your desire to help more important than my consent? How #MeToo gave me a vocabulary to claim disability rights.
Vaccine distrust is one legacy of unethical Big Pharma practices in Nigeria.
Being able to leave your country is an indispensable professional necessity for journalists – wherever they are based.
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