In the past, state repression was largely contained within a country's own frontiers. Today, autocrats are cooperating across borders, using digital surveillance.

Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, a couple who both worked as human rights lawyers in Pakistan, were sentenced to 17 years in prison on January 24, 2026. What was their crime? Between ...

Editor’s note: First published on Yaba Left, this post is republished here with permission. Read the first part of this post here. Nigeria's political climate in the 80s was rather turbulent with a ...

Throughout the scorching summer in Shanghai, in one of the most liberal and prosperous cities in eastern China, a wine bar owned by a French wine heir and his Chinese boyfriend has been my go-to ...

Across Haitian social media, testimonies about fraudulent travel agencies appear almost every week. Most of these agencies ...

After 80 million years of evolution, and one group of species still fights for survival. This time, though, the threat is ...

It is very difficult for the Japanese-Filipino children to locate their Japanese fathers. Despite NGOs’ help, many suffer the ...

Early damage estimates vary widely, but all point to the same conclusion: rebuilding Venezuela will require unprecedented financial resources and long-term economic recovery efforts.

In 2023, Brazil recorded 45,747 intentional violent deaths — among the highest rates in the world. Like many democracies, the ...

The dual earthquakes revealed how geology, corruption, and a longstanding humanitarian emergency amplified destruction across ...

Many stateless people in the Gulf live in extremely difficult conditions: excluded from education, employment, public ...

Marriage has become a migration route for Rohingya refugee girls, as brokers exploit families’ hopes of overseas grooms, ...