Rights & Freedoms

Ebola isn’t the only crisis unfolding in the DRC

How a political power struggle could distract from eradication efforts An already deadly and worsening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is compounded by the ruling government’s...

Nepal’s silent epidemic

The devastating human and financial toll of surging non-communicable diseases Writing for Nepal’s leading digital news portal, Online Khabar, Pushparaj Chaulagain warns us of an epidemic: the sharp rise in non-communicable...

This side of the bridge

Venezuelan women cross into Colombia for abortions they cannot legally have at home, only to find that this “right” is not always easy to reach In Venezuela, abortion remains a...

When hate reaches the school gates

Guro Middle School is on the frontline of a war on immigrants waged by Korea's far-right...

Refugees welcome

A journalist catches up with the “nicest people” in the far-right, anti-immigrant German AfD party – people with an immigrant background themselves. Orfeo Laudi shakes his head. “The overwhelming majority...

Karachi: Surveillance, panic and chaos: the price the people pay for safer streets

New AI traffic cameras peer down on crumbling, flooded streets. This costly digital dragnet has sparked mass paranoia, breeding far more absurd bureaucratic farce than actual civic order....

Gaza: How genocide has transformed the daily lexicon

War dismantles more than just skylines; it rewires the very architecture of language. In Gaza, ordinary Arabic words have been hollowed out and repurposed to map a devastating new reality....

Mothers for hire

How Colombia has turned into a “paradise for reproductive tourism” We are used to discussing surrogacy in fairly abstract terms. If the neoliberal idea of us being nothing but self-interested...

Brick by brick

How mutual-aid construction has helped thousands of working-class families secure homes while limiting real-estate speculation in Uruguay Published in El País’s América Futura section and reported by Noor Mahtani, this article explores...

Slow death in Diyala

Illegal landfills in eastern Iraq expose residents to toxic smoke and disease as environmental laws go unenforced. Published by Daraj and reported by Tamara Emad, Istabraq Al‑Zubaidi, and Israa Tariq, this investigation...

The cyberslaves of Bamban

A daring escape from a Philippine scam compound exposes the global system of digital fraud built on torture, corruption and modern slavery In a joint investigation for Danish newspapers Jyllands-Posten and Politiken, journalists...

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