An exhibition of powerful photographs brings home the real costs of illness and incapacitation for miners and their families.
The colonial image of Persians as hypocritical and unreliable is so deeply entrenched in western imagination, that it affects policymaking on the highest levels.
The corporate rush for land and resources in the Global South has gender-specific impacts on women, who are routinely excluded from decision-making.
In the Russian republic of Kalmykia, where the opposition is small and fractious, Alexey Navalny could become a unifying figure ahead of next year's presidential election. RU
Cотни отчаявшихся беженцев из Чечни застряли в белорусском Бресте, пытаясь перейти границу с Евросоюзом. Местное население настроено против них - но некоторые все же не боятся протянуть руку помощи. English, Polski
As the UN meets in Geneva to discuss human rights the tea workers in Guwahati are standing up for theirs.
In order to stop democracy drying up, it is necessary to understand what democratic backsliding looks like and how it takes shape.
While helping others is a powerful motivation in the early stage of migrants’ and refugees’ arrival, it is not a good basis for genuine integration. Institutions should help refugees build social capital and agency in their cities.
After human rights groups challenged the government for its mass surveillance infrastructure, they were themselves illegally spied on. Illegal state spying jeopardises all our freedoms, and must be stopped.
Пока российские власти озабочены воображаемой угрозой со стороны “иностранных агентов”, истинная угроза стране зреет изнутри: развал системы образования остановить уже некому. English
What is the logic behind increasingly militarised protest policing? What are the costs of this strategy? And in what ways is resistance to aggressive policing growing?
It may seem as though nothing has changed on the web – but since 2014, Google and Facebook hace acquired direct influence over more than 70% of internet traffic. They're not stopping there.
