Murdered women: A history of ‘honour’ crimes
Throughout history, women have been held responsible for upholding family ‘honour’ - with deadly consequences.
Category Archives: Features
A fog of uncertainty looms over Afghanistan
The people feel stuck between a corrupt government and a brutal, violent, oppressive Taliban that is gaining ground.
Archives of beauty and pain: A century of African women in photos
The African Lookbook delves into the history of African photography - and the women who were at the centre of the frame.
Column: That time I met KKK Grand Wizard David Duke
In his column recalling past interviews, A. Craig Copetas describes an encounter with the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
‘Doomed to stay’: The dying villages of Mexico’s Lake Cuitzeo
As Mexico’s reservoirs run dry, the people stuck on the drying lake beds wonder how they will survive.
Could lower vaccine doses be key to ending the COVID pandemic?
Fractional or lower dosing has been used around the world for years as a means to overcome vaccine shortages.
The Kenyans robbed of their families by al-Shabab
Rash of kidnappings continues a decade after Kenya joined the fight against armed group in Somalia.
Will we all need COVID vaccine booster shots?
How do boosters work and how can we celebrate Eid safely this year?
Column: That Time … Dédé the Sardine and the Olympic big fish
'The IOC are masters of the universe,' he said. But in Tokyo it faces a villain too powerful to overcome with pageantry.
Debt and trauma as Israel destroys Palestinian homes, businesses
Hundreds of Palestinian struggle to see a future as Israel demolishes homes and businesses in occupied territories.
After losing a child: We are a family, but we grieve alone
My daughter's absence was like a wound, raw and weeping. Everything we did together reminded us of who we had lost.
Anwar Ditta: The mother who took on the UK government and won
How a Birmingham-born mother fought to be reunited with her children and exposed the racism of the UK Home Office.
The Madrid barbershop helping young migrants build better futures
The initiative seeks to provide work to migrants fresh out of state care, so they can secure residency.
Being Ijaw in the UK: An oddity among fellow Nigerian youth
Within the diaspora, I feel my tribe’s erosion of cultural identity acutely.
‘Treated worse than animals’: Black women in pretrial detention
Thousands of women, unable to afford bail, languish in US jails for months without a conviction.
Justice Breyer and the great drama of the US Supreme Court
Justice Stephen Breyer, the oldest serving US justice, is being urged to retire to make way for someone new.
‘We saw it coming’: The Indigenous leader fighting climate change
Nemonte Nenquimo discusses how climate change has altered the Amazon and the elders who guide her work.
Tales from an Indian crematorium
In India, crematorium workers are struggling to cope as the bodies pile up.
Death in a Glasgow hotel: The last years of Badreddin Bosh
In 2017, a man fled his village in Sudan. In 2020, his life ended violently in Scotland. But what had happened to him?
What my 99-year-old friend taught me about the joy of living
Robina Asti fought a quiet battle for acceptance before choosing to speak out publicly for LGBTQ rights when she was 92.