By Tania Bagan The Mediterranean Sea is the most traveled, deadliest migration route on Earth. Last year, 5,079 migrants lost their lives trying to cross the world’s third-largest sea — 34 percent more than in 2015, according to the Missing Migrants Project....
I’m puzzled when I read of correspondents who enjoyed in Cuba in the 1960s. I found Havana miserable and oppressive before Castro kicked me out. This is the latest in a series of articles by foreign correspondents who covered Cuba during the reign of Fidel Castro. I...
We asked four experts — Carroll Bogert (human rights), Tom Burke (environment), Alan Wheatley (international economy) and Alex Nicoll (defense & security) — for their thoughts following Donald Trump’s shock victory in the U.S. presidential...
Five and a half years after its civil war erupted, Syria descends into the abyss as the world watches. What lessons can we draw from this tragedy? A Syrian man holding a girl surrounded by the rubble of houses destroyed by air strikes in Aleppo, Syria, 21 April 2014...
The imprisonment of large numbers of Black Americans constitutes the most serious human rights violation in the U.S., an expert tells students. The imprisonment of disproportionately large numbers of African-Americans constitutes the most serious human rights...
Yemen’s civil war has accelerated the collapse of a fragmented Arab state, but don’t hold your breath for international action to mitigate war horrors. A Yemeni woman strokes the arm of her malnourished infant, Sanaa, Yemen, 27 November 2014. (EPA/Yahya...
Acts of resistance can make a big difference, a human rights advocate says. And non-violent civil disobedience is more effective than armed militancy. Small acts of resistance can make a big difference. And non-violent civil disobedience is usually more effective than...
We asked News-Decoder’s ambassadors — a network of young adults around the world who believe in our mission — for their thoughts on a ban imposed by several French municipalities on the burkini swimsuit worn by some Muslim women. Here’s what...
We publish this on July 25, which is Republic Day in Tunisia. Tunisia abolished the monarchy on that day in 1957, and Habib Bourguiba became its first president. By Hafawa Rebhi “Down with corruption!” “The amnesty bill will not pass!” “¡No...
By Lukas Jansen Ayu is a 13-year-old girl from a village in Indonesia, one of five children in a family that cultivates tobacco and other crops. All of the children help with the tobacco crop. Ayu says she vomits every year while harvesting tobacco. “My stomach...