Rights & Freedoms

Shein in Paris

A French investigation dissects the controversial alliance between Shein and BHV owner Frédéric Merlin In Mediapart, journalist Mathias Thépot reports on the explosive arrival of the Chinese ultra-fast-fashion giant Shein inside Paris’s...

When the whistleblower becomes the prisoner

How a Chinese videographer who documented Xinjiang’s detention facilities found himself facing deportation from the United States It begins as a story of journalistic daring, and a dramatic escape. But...

Don’t call me dad

Despite Russia’s homophobic laws, queer people in Russia are still choosing to become parents. Writers Karen Shainyan and Yaroslav Rasputin, from a new Russian-language queer media outlet Just Got Lucky, collected...

Prague without teachers or nurses

How soaring rents are quietly pushing the city’s essential workers to the margins Anna Absolonová’s reporting traces Prague’s housing crisis through the lives of those who keep the city running...

When your doctor is an algorithm

How AI is quietly reshaping Spanish healthcare Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future prospect in Spanish healthcare. It is already examining patients, prioritising cases, and shaping diagnoses, often without...

Remaining barbaric

How personal darkness becomes a theory of class, race and aesthetic rebellion In this reflective essay for Mexican publication Revista de la Universidad, Dahlia de la Cerda traces her journey from...

To be a father in time of annihilation

Palestinian writer and editor Muhammad al-Zaqzouq writes about how the war in Gaza has reshaped the concept of fatherhood for him and his children...

Volkswagen Slave labour at Amazon cattle Ranch

In one of Brazil's most severe human rights cases, Volkswagen stands accused of luring hundreds of rural workers into brutal slavery between 1974 and 1986. Facing allegations, the automaker must...

Six days in September

In Translator’s photo essay, Indian photojournalist Ishan Tankha reports from Kathmandu in the wake of the Gen Z protests...

Parsing justice: Linguistic violence in the courtroom

In the courtroom, language is never neutral. It can elucidate the truth or shroud it in shadow, protect the innocent or silence the vulnerable. From the arcane tangle of legal...

Read Between the Lines: The Mask Park incident

A new format in Translator where we commission a journalist or commentator from beyond the Anglosphere to interpret a recent article they have found interesting or important from their local...

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