Yemen’s ‘microgrid girls’ power community amid war and COVID-19
A women-run solar station near the front line in Abs is empowering its owners and improving life in their community.
Category Archives: Features
The lessons trauma taught me: A car expert’s tale
From a large Chassidic family to the foster care system, I learned to embrace the people unwelcome at others' tables.
Lebanon’s year of fire
Life in Lebanon has now merged into a seemingly endless series of intertwined sorrows.
Italy’s ‘fetus graves’ renew abortion debate
Discovery of burials women did not authorise highlights range of remaining challenges surrounding terminations.
Sold, whipped and raped: A Yazidi woman remembers ISIL captivity
A survivor describes how she kept a secret notebook in which she recorded the abuses committed against her and others.
Politics and penguins: The fight to save Antarctica
After failed attempts to create marine-protected zones in the pristine Antarctic, a new hope might be on the horizon.
Nigeria’s bus drivers battle thugs, a union and police in Lagos
An unorthodox union and an unregulated transport system leave many Nigerian bus drivers vulnerable to poverty and abuse.
Q&A: ‘We can eradicate polio from the world’
Dr Tunji Funsho talks to Al Jazeera about immunisation efforts in Africa, which was declared wild polio-free this year.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is ushering in a new age of warfare
Drones, sensors and long-range weapons have given one side a clear edge in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The perils of ‘sharenting’: The parents who share too much
By the age of five, many children will have had 1,500 photos of them shared online. But what happens when they grow up?
‘I was chained for 11 months’: Living with depression in Liberia
There were 30 of us - men, women and children - in a hall, chained to logs. We were only released to go to the bathroom.
Kept in chains: People with mental illness shackled in 60 nations
Human Rights Watch report says hundreds of thousands with mental illness forced to live in filthy rooms, sheds or cages.
Fair trial concerns plague world’s largest death row in Pakistan
Experts say many people are wrongly punished in a country where criminal justice system lacks international standard.
Mining Earth: From the Amazon to the ocean’s depths
We should not be asking how much more we can take from the planet, but how much more can the planet take?
In war-torn Yemen, a bombed school brings back hope to children
A school in Taiz has opened doors for children in a country where millions of children cannot access education.
Far-right combat sports: A dangerous training ground for violence
Experts raise alarm ahead of Europe's largest neo-Nazi combat sports event, due to take place this weekend.
Rewrite the English department: Lessons in radical decolonisation
Can we reimagine the world of literatures in English in a way that puts historically marginalised voices at the centre?
‘Alarming’: Experts slam UK plan for offshore asylum centre
Plans to hold asylum seekers on Ascension Island, along with other proposals, draw ridicule and human rights concerns.
Humour, resignation, despair: Living with inflation in Iran
Iranians take to social media to chronicle the blistering effects of soaring inflation and US economic sanctions.
The myth of the good mother
I could not fathom failing at the most basic measure of good motherhood. But some things cannot be fixed.