human rights

Where South Korea’s seasonal workers program went wrong

An investigation into foreign labour on the country’s oyster farms reveals how illegal brokers are profiting off exploitation. In South Korea, where half of the population resides in the Seoul metropolitan...

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...

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...

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...

Sudanese refugees and the Egyptian border’s economy of exploitation

An expansive cross-border investigation exposes the brutality faced by refugees fleeing Sudan’s war and the impunity that sustains it In a devastating and meticulously reported investigation, ARIJ’s Salma Abdel Aziz...

Looking beyond El Ramillete

Mexico’s invisible workforce and the cycle of exploitation that feeds the country’s agricultural boom In this article for the Mexican digital platform PopLab.mx, Yajaira Gasca Ramírez reports on a government raid...

Cabo Delgado’s forgotten daughters

In Mozambique’s war-torn north, girls fleeing conflict face a second nightmare, including corruption, sexual exploitation and survival prostitution – inside displacement camps meant to protect them Since 2017, the province...

Workers of all nations, relax!

Аn essay explores how 20th-century socialism brought tourism to the masses in Eastern and Central Europe. Leisure tourism began as a bourgeois pastime. But over the late 19th and early...

Who gets to keep their name?

In Japan, the decades-long debate over allowing married couples to keep separate surnames has become a political stalemate, exposing deep divisions within the ruling party In Japan, the question of...

When the House Always Wins

As Thailand makes casinos legal for the first time in decades, Tawan Manakul argues that moral outrage misses the point Gambling has been around as long as people have been...

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