violence

The desert city holding back a war

In Mauritania’s far southeast, a refugee camp of nearly 300,000 people has become both sanctuary and buffer zone between Mali’s collapse and Europe’s borders Reporting from the edge of the...

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...

The ever-changing faces of teenagers in Rukla

How unaccompanied minor migrants navigate war, displacement, and uncertain futures in Lithuania Journalists Austėja Pūraitė and Audra Skuodaitė report from Lithuania’s Rukla Reception Centre, tracing the fragile and unstable lives...

Love and punishment in Karnataka and Bihar

Two honour-killings expose the price of loving across caste lines Written by Rachana and published by Khabar Lahariya, this report traces two recent cases of brutal violence that reveal how inter-caste...

A life stolen in the name of national purity

The lynching of a 19-year-old Bengali labourer in Odisha exemplifies a growing climate of communal violence against Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant workers in India On Christmas Eve in Sambalpur, Odisha, a...

What does support for a slain rebel tell us about India today?

As thousands mourn a slain rebel in Bastar, the report asks whether the state can kill a movement without addressing the conditions that gave it life Narrated by Rachana for Khabar...

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...

Elite youth sports have become “synonymous with violence”

In Russia, a top figure skating coach has been accused of physical and sexual violence against an 11-year-old athlete. The scandal has sparked a conversation about abuse in children’s sports...

Freedom by Numbers

More than 200 court rulings in 2024 cite an algorithm that classifies foreign prisoners without ties as high risk, even if they lack other risk factors In 1993, two beekeepers...

The Girl Who Was Called “Everybody’s Property”

Iceland, despite its feminist reputation, systematically fails rape victims, shielding perpetrators and disbelieving survivors Widely praised as a global leader in gender equality, Iceland consistently tops rankings of the world’s...

From Behind the Digital Curtain

In Indonesia’s digital shadows, LGBTQ+ voices are being hacked, harassed and silenced – often with the law’s blessing. In the dark corners of Makassar’s digital sphere, where anonymity should be...

Truth Under Fire

Investigative journalists in North Africa are being hunted, hacked and harassed, but they haven’t stopped telling the truth A troubling wind is blowing across the world. From Europe to the...

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