'My future is in the EU': the Ukrainian children who don't want to return home
When 15-year-old Denys first arrived in his new home in a small village in the Italian Alps in March 2022,…
Category: Global development
Global development
"We want to find a better future": teenage girls on why they risked their lives to reach Spain.
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Living in 54°C heat: diaries from Delhi's slums reveal what it's like to endure extreme temperatures.
Every summer evening, Gulshan follows the same routine. She washes the floor of her one-room home several times to cool…
She drowned on the very day her visa was approved: the tragic story of a Moroccan footballer who was trying to reach Ceuta.
Football was everything Faten Ben Omar El Azizi had ever wanted. She had played for years in Morocco’s regional league…
"Why are you doing this to me?": one woman's story of surviving two years enslaved on a farm in Spain.
On a farm in the northwestern Spanish region of Castile and León, a typical day for Fatima* would start at…
A photo essay: giving birth under the shadow of Haiti's gang violence.
Eight months pregnant, Françoise, 45, arrives early in the morning at an empty school in Bel Air. This hillside neighborhood…
'They made us call him a martyr': families at Iran's largest cemetery mourn those killed in the January protests.
Sepehr Family members gather to mourn Sepehr, who was 25 when he was killed in the January protests. Sepehr, 25,…
An 'astonishing' discovery could help save children from a deadly, disfiguring condition.
Researchers say the “astonishing” discovery of a new bacteria could lead to better ways to prevent, detect, and treat a…
'The world's memory': why Nigeria is preserving its history in a mountain vault in Svalbard
A decommissioned coal mine near the North Pole is the last place you’d expect to find Indigenous stories from rural…
My journey to sexual freedom: what ancient African wisdom can teach us about pleasure today
In the kitchen of my Airbnb in Dar es Salaam, I stripped down to my underwear and wrapped a colorful…