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Portraits of three Syrian cities: Huossen Hamod’s daughter looks out from a fifth floor balcony onto their decimated neighbourhood of Ansari al-Sharki, Aleppo

31 March 2018 8 minute read

Portraits of war-torn Syrian cities

For those in government-held cities, only fragments of normality remain. Sally Hayden writes.

Alfred Kelfala, part of the roving Freetown Ebola burial team, puts on a safety suit before burying a corpse, 2015.

10 April 2018 8 minute read

Did deforestation cause the Ebola outbreak?

How humanity may have triggered Ebola outbreaks. By Katie McQue.

8 April 2018 3 minute read

Why Lula is a political prisoner, not a criminal

Brazil’s former president is now serving a long jail sentence. Mariana T Noviello reports.

Opposition candidate Fabricio Alvarado from the National Restoration Party. Photo: Gustavo Fuchs

4 April 2018 9 minute read

Evangelical uprising: a new political opposition in Costa Rica

Right-wing Fabricio Alvarado may have lost, but his party’s rise remains worrying, writes Gustavo Fuchs.

4 April 2018 6 minute read

Raising voices to stop rape in Bangladesh

The Bangladeshi state is intimidating indigenous human rights defenders. Amy Hall reports.

The Turkana are a nomadic people, mainly based near Lake Turkana in north-west Kenya. Photo: Filiberto Strazzari, CC-BY-2.0

3 April 2018 4 minute read

Two worlds collide

In East Africa, traditional lifestyles are bringing nomads into conflict with states, writes Maina Waruru.

The new Turkish humanitarians

31 March 2018 5 minute read

How Turkey is winning hearts and minds in Somalia

Jamal Osman reports on the rise of the new humanitarians in Somalia.

These three Yemeni girls stand by the shredded remains of their tents in Abs settlement, which is regularly damaged by passing sandstorms.

31 March 2018 12 minute read

Who cares? Humanitarianism under threat

Hazel Healy investigates the challenges facing 21st century disaster response.

A Rohingya refugee takes a moment’s pause, shortly after arriving in a makeshift camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh, last September. She is one of over 670,000 people to have fled over the border from Myanmar since August 2017.

31 March 2018 7 minute read

Fleeing Myanmar

Parsa Sanjana Sajid speaks to Rohingya refugees trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

A mural in Frankfurt of drowned refugee Alan Kurdi, a photo of whose body lying on the beach went viral in 2015.

31 March 2018 3 minute read

Why we all belong to a shared community

It is not rationality that unites us, but the fragility of our physical bodies, argues Tom Whyman.

29 March 2018 5 minute read

Why striking lecturers can’t give up now

Strikes have shown our strength. Academics could demand so much more for our universities, writes Hamish Kallin.

27 March 2018 5 minute read

Brutal forced deportations, globalization and human rights

The Stansted 15 have exposed the hypocrisy of Britain, Ann Pettifor argues.

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