For transgender people in Russia, their identity is a risk. Isabelle started her transition in Russia but the anti-LGBTQ+ laws and prohibition of gender transition in 2023 made living there unbearable.
For Rohingya youth, their education is interrupted not because they lack determination, but because educational opportunities in refugee camps in Bangladesh are limited.
Join us on August 4th to explore how narratives about Indigenous Right are being discussed and framed in traditional and online media.
If even a few stateless children were pulled into Epstein’s trafficking network, that fact matters. It matters legally. It matters morally. And it matters for every stateless child.
"Sometimes they say that we came to take their land. But how can we do that? We don’t have anything here."
Through August, our newsroom and contributor community will collaborate with different Indigenous activists, civil society groups, and collectives to tell stories about their challenges and strategies for asserting and preserving their rights.
In the past, state repression was largely contained within a country's own frontiers. Today, autocrats are cooperating across borders, using digital surveillance.
Early damage estimates vary widely, but all point to the same conclusion: rebuilding Venezuela will require unprecedented financial resources and long-term economic recovery efforts.
After 80 million years of evolution, and one group of species still fights for survival. This time, though, the threat is humans.
Across Haitian social media, testimonies about fraudulent travel agencies appear almost every week. Most of these agencies ask for between 3,500 and 5,000 US dollars for trips that never actually happen.
It is very difficult for the Japanese-Filipino children to locate their Japanese fathers. Despite NGOs’ help, many suffer the pain of “endless waiting,” frustrations, and anxieties.
From Mexico, Venezuelans mobilized within hours, building trusted networks to deliver aid and proving that solidarity can cross any border.
In 2023, Brazil recorded 45,747 intentional violent deaths — among the highest rates in the world. Like many democracies, the country has long grappled with the issue of large-scale public support for state violence.
Marriage has become a migration route for Rohingya refugee girls, as brokers exploit families’ hopes of overseas grooms, turning promised reunions into trafficking journeys driven by deception, coercion, and profit.
Many stateless people in the Gulf live in extremely difficult conditions: excluded from education, employment, public healthcare and freedom of movement, while also suffering political and social discrimination
The victims’ families testified in court for the first time: "We want justice served. Even though their killers are no longer here, I want the truth known.”
“I know how easily words like ‘traitor’ and ‘enemy’ can be wielded by those in power to crush hope and sow fear.”
“Sobers became an example of the West Indian’s claim to [...] full participation, on merit, in a world that had long assumed such mastery was the preserve of the coloniser.”
People whose immediate family had been killed by al-Shabaab were measurably less willing to accept defectors, a reminder that reconciliation has to compete with real grief and fear.
After Venezuela’s earthquakes, families searched for missing children within a strained protection system that struggled to respond amid collapsed buildings, scarce resources, and institutional gaps.
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