In Brownsville, Texas, three members of the Galvan family died after a malfunctioning air conditioner left them exposed to extreme heat. Aged between 60...
In both the street theatre and research, hierarchy is unsettled. The ‘platform’ needs to dissolve. Knowledge does not descend from a raised stage or an academic institution. Knowledge circulates among bodies in proximity and their minds. The actor and the audience blur into one another. The researcher and the community must also do the same.
Since the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan returned to power in 2021 under Taliban leadership, the situation for women in Afghanistan has deteriorated sharply. State-sanctioned discrimination has further eroded the already limited freedoms and autonomy of Afghan women, with new decrees systematically restricting their rights and legitimising increasingly severe forms of oppression.
A missile strike, an attack that opened the United States–Israel military campaign against Iran on 28 February 2026, destroyed the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, in southern Hormozgan province of Iran.
The assault occurred during the school day. Classrooms were full. More than 165 young children were killed, the majority of them girls between the ages of seven and twelve.
The brutal reality of wars unfolding in our world, such as the current war in Ukraine, the Iran-Israel-US conflict, or the devastating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, reveals that war is never just fought on battlefields. It is fought on every road, in every schoolyard, and in every home.
“In most of these markets people also say they pay more attention to creators and influencers than to mainstream news brands (or their journalists) when using social media.” — Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report
Jumping from the top of a truck, Gazan journalist Anas Al‑Sharif landed in the arms of his best friend, Saleh Al‑Ja’farawi, with a joy that felt almost borrowed from another world, brief, bright, and impossibly alive amid a landscape cratered by warplanes.
The arrival of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh since 2017 has transformed the social and economic landscape of Cox’s Bazar district.