How the far right got a stranglehold on the West
In the past, the rise of far-right ideology has surged ahead in Europe and the US in unison.
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The social justice activists battling racism and misogyny
The British activist who campaigned to make ‘upskirting’ illegal and the American anti-racism activist who inspires her.
Freda Huson: An Indigenous ‘warrior’ for the next generation
The Wet'suwet'en matriarch is defending her traditional territories in Canada from the construction of the CGL pipeline.
Project Force: AI and the military – a friend or foe?
Artificial Intelligence is already part of our lives and it will play a key role in future wars. But is it safe?
‘Warrior women together’: Mothers of the Black trans family
Activist LaSaia Wade is combating systemic inequality in the LGBTQ community by following in her role model’s footsteps.
The anti-hunger advocate and her great-grandmother’s lodge
World Food Program USA’s chief advocacy officer on the great-grandmother whose independent spirit inspires her.
The epidemiologist and her fight to prevent the next pandemic
New York City Health + Hospitals’s Syra Madad on the women who inspired her at home and in her work in public health.
‘Some stay, some die’: The horror of Ukraine’s war camps
Survivors give grisly testimony of torture, executions at war camps in eastern Ukraine's breakaway regions.
Is there a link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots?
Dr Khan explains why the European Medicines Agency has declared AstraZeneca’s vaccine to be 'safe and effective'.
The revolutionary and the shoulders upon which she stands
Civic change agent Sarah Williams tells the story of the grandmother who inspires her to fight for racial justice.
The history of the duster and my trailblazing grandmother
So different from the women she grew up with, my grandmother rocked a hot pink housecoat while pursuing her career.
Nigeria university strike caused ‘crisis’ for small businesses
A year after a 10-month strike shut universities, businesses that need students for patronage are still struggling.
‘Afraid this won’t end’: Italy in grips of fresh COVID crisis
As country mourns virus victims, a rising death rate and fresh lockdown measures further darken the national mood.
‘Pure terror’: COVID-19 on the front lines of Ukraine’s war
In Europe’s only active war zone, closed borders and a lack of resources are impeding the fight against COVID-19.
Born rebels: From Rosa Luxemburg to Palestine’s Azza Qasem
How a revolutionary Polish socialist killed in 1919 inspired a Palestinian women's rights activist.
The ‘red prawn war’: How trauma gripped a Sicilian fishing town
An Italian town has found itself caught in the crosshairs of a territorial dispute with Libya over fishing waters.
On the front lines of the Myanmar military’s crackdown
Machine-gun fire, sleeping in safe houses and waking every morning anxious to find out who has been arrested overnight.
Labour law changes: Are Qatar’s migrant workers better off?
Six months after Qatar abolished need for an NOC to switch jobs, migrant workers tell of their continued struggle.
The female Afghan tech entrepreneurs inspiring each other
The leader of the Afghan Dreamers robotics team and her mentor describe the challenge of building low-cost ventilators.
32,000km, 655 screens: Documenting India’s endangered cinemas
A journey to archive single-screen cinemas that have been part of India's entertainment landscape for over 100 years.