International report - Before Nakbah: Displaced Palestinians share their...
Earlier this month, on 15 May, millions of Palestinians inside the occupied territories and in the diaspora, marked the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian people's departure from their homeland, the...
View ArticleInternational report - Cameroon women protest PM's arrival in Bamenda
Cameroon's Prime Minister, Joseph Dion Ngute, who is himself an English-speaker, recently began a visit to the troubled Anglophone regions as part of government efforts to find a lasting solution to...
View ArticleInternational report - Adjusting to the boom of video-on-demand across Africa
Video on demand has become a global battlefield with the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and Apple fighting for global share. But in Africa, a different approach is emerging that aims to fit the situation on...
View ArticleInternational report - Guinea bans polygamy, but not everyone is happy
In Guinea, the parliament recently voted on a law that would ban polygamy. But the move has got many Guineans up in arms. While many unmarried young people have welcomed the ban, a majority of older...
View ArticleInternational report - Learning how to be Santa just in time for the holidays
This is a busy time of the year for Santa Claus, especially for those who make a living impersonating him! One of the busiest in the world is Tim Connaghan. He is America’s full-time national Santa...
View ArticleInternational report - Senegal's Niayes region puts to sleep the tsetse fly
98 percent of Tsetse flies have been eradicated from an infested area in Senegal. It's a victory other countries on the continent will be keen to replicate although the work is still on-going. Tsetse...
View ArticleInternational report - India's Congress party reviews Rahul Gandhi's defeats
In India, a second straight electoral defeat for Rahul Gandhi has raised doubts about his status as the primary opposition leader. The loss has also weakened the Nehru-Gandhi clan which has produced...
View ArticleInternational report - Tunisians face rising food prices during Ramadan
Tunisians have got through the Muslim month of Ramadan, struggling with a tangible rise in the prices of food products because some suppliers have exploited an opportunity for speculation. This...
View ArticleInternational report - Looking into the future of urban mobility
Emerging technologies and growing environmental concerns are changing the way we travel. Exciting new concepts like autonomous electric cars and drones are now on the verge of entering the mainstream....
View ArticleInternational report - Women mechanics grease the wheels of change in Senegal
In Senegal, gender norms are being defied in the conservative country at the country’s first female garage. At Femme Auto, the only garage that has made employing female mechanics a priority, around...
View ArticleInternational report - Who puts on the best Christmas market in Germany?
German towns and cities have for decades competed at this time of the year to put on the best Weinachtsmarkt or Christmas market. The capital, Berlin, has more than 60 of them, spread through its many...
View ArticleInternational report - Living as a Muslim in the India of Narendra Modi's BJP
Riding on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and a wave of nationalism, the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP was voted back into power in India’s recent elections, with an...
View ArticleInternational report - Liberals fear Modi's government may threaten India's...
Liberals in India fear that a second term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi might prompt a decisive turn against the country’s secular traditions. They base their concern on the direction taken by Modi...
View ArticleInternational report - Grim reapers: sand harvesting spells doom for Kenyan...
Kenya's Indian Ocean coastline provides livelihoods for fishing communities. But environmental degradation and sea-sand harvesting to improve Mombasa's port threatens the eco-system. Click the 'play'...
View ArticleInternational report - Turkish artist draws attention to the disappeared
Turkish artist Anil Olcan spent a year finding images of Turkey’s “disappeared” people in order to exhibit them as a way of marking that they existed. Rights groups say most of the people in question...
View ArticleInternational report - Forensic experts strive to identify victims of...
Mourning loved ones is a difficult task, even more so when the family of the deceased has no body to bury. Between 1976 and 1983, during the military dictatorship in Argentina, thousands of people...
View ArticleInternational report - Mexico Pt1: Young women struggling to survive in Ecatepec
When you are seventeen, meeting your friends and escaping your parents’ control is usually a major occupation. But that’s not the way it goes for young girls in Ecatepec, a tentacular municipality...
View ArticleInternational report - Mexico Pt2: Women take to self-defence classes to...
In Mexico, self-defense lessons are becoming increasingly popular among women. Providing more than just physical techniques, they address the reality of living as a woman in a country where they face...
View ArticleInternational report - Mexico Pt3: Why women don't trust Mexico's authorities
Mexico is suffering an unprecedented level of gender violence. Femicides are on the rise and six out of every ten women has suffered some kind of physical or sexual violence. Yet a majority of victims...
View ArticleInternational report - Report Mexico Part 4 - Social media challenges for...
In Mexico, the scope of violence against women is particularly wide. It goes from unsolicited cat-calling to socially accepted harassment to increasing levels of femicides. In March 2019, hundreds of...
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