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A woman stands with a broom in one hand and a child in the other, defending her land against encroaching fire

Community in La Cañada Real: The women defending Spain’s biggest informal settlement

Brenda Chávez September 15, 2025

For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. Authorities are starving the community of basic infrastructure and demolishing homes. But women are pushing back against eviction and uniting against oppression from outside their community and within.

The Rainmakers of Morocco

Basma El Atti July 23, 2025

Morocco’s drought-flood chaos is fueling a storm of cloud seeding conspiracies.

An image of a gun and people are transposed onto piles of garbage and trash

Unsolved conflict and uncollected trash: In Bamenda, Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis is spilling onto the streets

Mboh Promise Nukapuh July 11, 2025

In Bamenda, the capital of Northwest Cameroon, a physical reminder of the Anglophone Crisis is visible on the streets: uncollected trash. Residents must navigate sights and smells that deter business, threaten their health, and increase the risks of environmental damage. But some are fighting back.

People hiking in a desert with a mountain in the background find themselves welcomed

Faith and finances: The religious communities providing a lifeline for immigrants

Thaís Matos May 12, 2025

Finding a foothold in Europe can be an immense logistical, economic, social and emotional challenge, but some immigrants are finding a sense of home in communities bound by belief.

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Migrant talent saves Portugal from brain drain

Fernanda Seavon March 24, 2025

With almost a third of young Portuguese living abroad, the country’s visa options and growing recognition of foreign qualifications help keep the economy on its feet. But despite so many immigrant workers coming from Portuguese-speaking countries, their degrees still don’t have the same clout as qualifications earned in Portugal.

A man in a garden is surrounded by colorful vegetables in this illustration by Suryaa Rajan

Seeds of resistance: The fight to preserve Europe’s peasant seeds

Raluca Besliu and Katharina Wecker February 27, 2025

Before industrialized farming conquered the continent, the crops that fed Europe were adaptable varieties that evolved as peasants freely exchanged seeds, from harvest to sowing, generation after generation. Reviving these seed systems could protect our food supply from future climate shocks – if EU regulations don’t strangle them out completely.

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Blocked at every turn: Why migrants in Italy face one of Europe’s worst brain waste gaps

Giada Santana November 5, 2024

College-educated migrants arriving in Italy face one of the harshest job markets in Europe. Compared to natives with similar qualifications, migrants are overqualified, underpaid, and underemployed. As a doctor from Venezuela learned, landing steady employment even in a field with shortages can be a long struggle.

A man walks around a labrynth, while scenes from his search for work play out on the sides.

Sweden’s brain waste problem: how the social welfare state locks migrant professionals out of the workforce

Justin Yarga June 26, 2024

High language requirements, a one-size integration policy, and discrimination. Despite the need for labour, landing a job in Sweden has become a hurdle race for college-educated migrants, a new joint investigation with Lighthouse Reports shows.

Widowed by Europe’s borders

Gabriela Ramirez and Tina Xu December 8, 2023

At the EU’s Eastern border, people entering the EU face dangers from the elements as well as from border guards. But many die a second, silent death: a death of identity and acknowledgement. One wife is still fighting for authorities to recognize her husband among dozens of unmarked migrant deaths.

A man standing among rubble gesturing at his surroundings in despair is videotaped by a journalist who shows his angry face but not the context

Why journalists are speaking out against Western media bias in reporting on Israel-Palestine

Belle de Jong December 7, 2023

Media should not only inform, but foster understanding without exacerbating tensions or perpetuating biased narratives. Instead, Western media’s coverage of Israel-Palestine has prioritised certain perspectives while diminishing others, neglecting crucial context and perpetuating (unconscious) stereotypes.

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Call Me by My Name: How the lack of sex education in India is impacting society

Ankita Anand October 30, 2023

While the conservative/religious views remain that marriage and reproduction are sacrosanct, even married couples face a lot of issues because they received zero, little or the wrong information about sex while growing up.

The illustration shows a lush green field of coffee plantation with a person in the foreground and four people in the background, picking coffee.

How indigenous women farmers in Mexico are using agroforestry to save the world’s favorite drink

Magdalena Rojo May 15, 2023

Mixtec women in Oaxaca, Mexico, are adapting to climate change by restoring their coffee plantations in agroforestry systems. While the costs of their work are increasing, the price of coffee is not.

Scientific illustrations of flowers surround the islands of the Philippines, showing where each is from

The silencing of scientists in the Philippines

Purple Romero November 15, 2022

Caught in a protracted war waged by state authorities against armed Communist rebels, scientists in the Philippines have been red-tagged, losing not only opportunities to do their work, but also their lives, literally.

A journalist at a desk draped with the Cameroon flag is offered money in an envelope by a man leaning over him

Unpaid wages, paid press conferences: How politicians manipulate the news in Cameroon

Sah Terence Animbom, Fomusoh Wadyeh Rachel, and Ndong Clinton Toh June 23, 2022

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 tree is wracked with missiles and weapons in this illustration by Antoine Bouraly

Syria’s Poisoned Earth

Loujeina Haj Youssef and Mais Katt March 23, 2022

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.