Persecution / Table of contents

A record of what systemic violence makes visible.

Persecution is more, much more than political disagreement. This index gathers the quiet erasures and forced silences that make the loss of human dignity impossible to ignore.

The poverty index

(118) More Than 1,000 Srebrenica Genocide Victims Still Missing 31 Years Later
July 20, 2026
(117) How Death And Despair Haunt Pakistan’s Christian Minority
May 20, 2026
(116) Mass Scam Centre Escapes Reveal A Humanitarian Crisis In Cambodia
March 25, 2026
(115) Uganda Votes In Fear Amid Internet Blackout And Police Crackdown
January 31, 2026
(114) Syria Says Nearly 140,000 People Still Missing
November 19, 2025
(113) Reckoning with Denmark’s Cruel Birth Control Campaign
September 25, 2025
(112) Mass Circumcision Ceremony That Killed 93 Kids Is Set To Happen Again
July 9, 2025
(111) Forced Sterilization And Impunity In Peru
May 18, 2025
(110) Holocaust Memorial Day - 80th Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz
March 22, 2025
(109) Boko Haram’s Latest Attacks Displace Thousands of Christians in Nigeria
February 6, 2025
(108) Landmine Clearance In Syria
January 18, 2025
(107) The Dark Side Of Luxury Handbag
December 19, 2024
(106) Dozens of Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Are Jailed Up to 10 Years
November 28, 2024
(105) South Korea's Baby Adoptions Reckoning
October 10, 2024
(104) The Chibanis – Bitter Bread: Algerian Pensioners’ Struggle in France
September 12, 2024
(103) Bangladesh Mourns Some 200 Deaths As Student Protests Wind Down And Thousands Are Arrested
August 2, 2024
(102) Marital Rape: Man In India Can’t Be Charged If Wife Is 18 Or Above
July 4, 2024
(101) Bredasdorp Is A South African Town That’s Plagued By Rape And Murder
June 5, 2024
(100) Wave of Exceptionally Hot Weather Scorches South And South-East Asia
May 14, 2024
(99) Nearly 5 Million Animals Dead In Mongolia’s Harshest Winter
April 3, 2024
(98) India Implements ‘Discriminatory’ Citizenship Law
March 15, 2024
(97) One In Five UN-Tracked Migratory Species At Risk Of Extinction
February 20, 2024
(96) All of Bangladesh Is Drinking Water Containing Carcinogenic Arsenic
January 26, 2024
(95) Almost 100 Journalists Killed And 400 Imprisoned In 2023, Says Report
December 18, 2023
(94) Bangladesh's Workers For Fast Fashion Brands Fear Starvation As They Fight For Higher Wages
November 12, 2023
(93) Every Two Minutes, a Child is being Prepared for Sexual Exploitation and Child Sex Trafficking
October 9, 2023
(92) A Child Was Sexually Abused Every Two Hours In Pakistan This Year 2023
September 13, 2023
(91) Indigenous People 'Under Threat' From Clean Energy Push
August 18, 2023
(90) Sportswashing Is Everywhere, but It’s Not New
July 16, 2023
(89) Ukraine Dam Explosion Is ‘Worst Environmental Disaster Since Chernobyl’
June 10, 2023
(88) Saudi Arabia Sentences Woman To 34 Years For Twitter Activism
May 28, 2023
(87) Inequalities Faced By Women In Agriculture Cost the World $1 Trillion
April 22, 2023
(86) Tesla’s German Factory Will Exhaust the Area’s Water Supply in Gruenheide.
April 4, 2023
(85) UN Launches Ten-Year ‘Survival Plan’ for Endangered Languages
March 12, 2023
(84) Exxon’s Own Science Was Scary Accurate About Global Warming. So It Covered It Up.
January 15, 2023
(83) Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Jailed In Lease Violation Case
December 20, 2022
(82) Over 17,000 Civilians Killed In Ukraine Since February — UN
December 12, 2022
(81) Pinkwashing: How Companies Profit off Breast Cancer Awareness Month
November 12, 2022
(80) Rwanda: Wave of Free Speech Prosecutions
October 24, 2022
(79) Over 100,000 People Officially Missing Or Disappeared In Mexico
September 2, 2022
(78) 75 Years of Partition and India-Pakistan Tensions
August 20, 2022
(77) Myanmar Military Executes Four Democracy Activists
July 26, 2022
(76) 62 Journalists Killed In 2020, Just For Doing Their Jobs: UNESCO
July 8, 2022
(75) Mobile Schools Provide Hope For Afghan Children -- Especially For Girls
June 20, 2022
(74) Uvalde, Texas Attack is 212nd US mass shooting of Year 2022
June 3, 2022
(73) Profiting from Pain: The Urgency of Taxing the Rich Amid a Surge in Billionaire Wealth and a Global Cost-of-Living Crisis
May 26, 2022
(72) The Impact of Conflict On Food Insecurity
May 10, 2022
(71) The Dark Side of Modeling: Trafficking and Abuse
May 3, 2022
(70) Food Prices Approach Record Highs, Threatening the World’s Poorest
April 3, 2022
(69) One In Four Women Experience Domestic Abuse Before 50
March 7, 2022
(68) Canada Pledges $31.5 Billion to Settle Fight Over Indigenous Child Welfare System
February 5, 2022
(67) Enset Plants Could Feed More Than 100 Million People
January 26, 2022
(66) Parents Selling Children Shows Desperation In Afghanistan
January 1, 2022
(65) What Is the "Male Gaze" ?
November 20, 2021
(64) Amazon's 'Dieback' Scenario R eleases Massive Carbon Into The Atmosphere
October 30, 2021
(63) How the U.S. Betrayed the Marshall Islands, Kindling the Next Nuclear Disaster
October 20, 2021
(62) Over 130 Million Girls May Not Go Back To School After The COVID-19 Crisis
September 26, 2021
(61) The Taliban’s Return Is Catastrophic For Women In Afghanistan
August 20, 2021
(60) 3,462 Christians Killed in Nigeria in 200 days, 3000 Abducted, 300 Churches Attacked
August 3, 2021
(59) Germany Officially Recognizes It Committed Genocide In Present-Day Namibia
June 9, 2021
(58) Gun Deaths by Country 2021
April 24, 2021
(57) About 167 Women Killed by Someone They Knew Every Day in 2019: UN report
February 19, 2021
(56) 6 Millions of Japanese Seniors, Prison Beats Living Alone.
January 21, 2021
(55) Displaced Nearing 400,000 in Mozambique's Islamist Insurgency
December 5, 2020
(54) Albinos Are Being Killed In Record Numbers For Their Body Parts
October 30, 2020
(53) ' Bride Kidnapping': a Growing Hidden Crime
October 22, 2020
(52) Five Ways Coronavirus Is Deepening Global Inequality.
October 10, 2020
(51) Billionaires Are Profiting From A Pandemic.
August 18, 2020
(50) China Continues Its Persecution of Uighur Muslims.
July 24, 2020
(49) How Women are Getting Squeezed by the Pandemic.
July 4, 2020
(48) Israel Prepares for West Bank Annexation Despite Pandemic Spread.
May 26, 2020
(47) Covid-19: Women Trapped Between a Deadly Virus and a Deadly Partner.
April 7, 2020
(46) Scars Cannot Stop Them: Meet India’s Incredible Acid Attack Survivors.
February 8, 2020
(45) Stop Religious Persecution in Nigeria.
January 23, 2020
(44) Airbnb Is Ruining Our Neighbourhoods.
November 27, 2019
(43) ‘Guardian’ of the Amazon Killed in Brazil by Illegal Loggers.
November 6, 2019
(42) Syrian Kurds are Now Holding Daily Mass Funerals.
October 19, 2019
(41) Vietnam’s Horrific Legacy: The Children of Agent Orange
October 8, 2019
(40) Forced Displacement at Record 68.5 million Refugees.
September 7, 2019
(39) 7 facts about wealth inequality that will shock and infuriate you.
July 28, 2019
(38) The Contrast Between The Two Worlds That We Currently Live In.
July 5, 2019
(37) The Shocking Numbers Behind the Global Modern Slavery.
June 19, 2019
(36) Mena Mangal: Journalist and Women's Rights Campaigner Shot Dead in Broad Daylight in Kabul, Afghanistan.
May 18, 2019
(35) Sri Lanka bombings death toll rises to 290 in 'brand-new type of terrorism'
April 22, 2019
(34) U.S. Black Women 243% More Likely to Die During Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postpartum
April 20, 2019
(33) Vietnam's Hmong Christians are persecuted for their beliefs.
March 30, 2019
(32) New Zealand shooting victims remembered for the lives they lived
March 25, 2019
(31) #MeToo movement named Time magazine’s Person of the Year
February 18, 2019
(30) The Brutal History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’
January 28, 2019
(29) Saving Our Forests Means Survival for Indigenous People
January 12, 2019
(28) Apple Supplier Workers Describe Noxious Hazards at China Factory
December 15, 2018
(27) Child Marriages: 39,000 Every Day – More than 140 million girls under 18 will marry between 2011 and 2020
December 10, 2018
(26) Around the world, 6 women are killed every hour by someone they know.
December 8, 2018
(25) Gender pay gap is worse than thought: Study shows women actually earn half the income of men.
December 8, 2018
(24) For Them, Afghanistan Is Safer Than China, Persecution in Xinjiang is pushing Uighurs over the border.
November 3, 2018
(23) 59 journalists, media workers killed in the last 10 months of 2018
October 13, 2018
(22) Deaths Of Four Successful Iraqi Women Spark Fear Among Females.
October 13, 2018
(21) China's Ruling Party Orders Crackdown on Religion in Its Ranks
October 10, 2018
(20) Measuring Racial Discrimination
October 10, 2018
(19) 'No need for birth control': Tanzanian president's views cause outrage
September 22, 2018
(18) Palestinian inventor hopes to help rebuild Gaza using Green Cake, a new type of brick made of coal and wood ash.
September 22, 2018
(17) Saudi Arabia seeks 'unprecedented' beheading for woman activist.
August 25, 2018
(16) Most girls in Somalia experience genital mutilation. The ritual just killed a 10-year-old.
August 11, 2018
(15) New school offers education 'salvation' for Syrian girls in Lebanon.
August 11, 2018
(14) Refugees of the Syrian Civil War.
July 20, 2018
(13) Female politicians speak out about sexist, misogyny woman face everyday.
July 7, 2018
(12) Boko Haram crisis: Amnesty accuses Nigeria troops of rape
June 15, 2018
(11) Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
June 15, 2018
(10) First licences issued for female drivers in Saudi Arabia, but women still face severe restrictions every day.
June 15, 2018
(9) Chilean Students, Feminists Unite Against Sexism in Education
June 15, 2018
(8) Former Cambodian Leader Mu Sochua Is Still Fighting For Women's Rights.
June 15, 2018
(6) Gender Discimination
May 19, 2018
(5) Linda Sarsour Explains Why the Media Got It Wrong About Gaza and Palestine.
May 19, 2018
(4) Chemical weapons of Today .
May 19, 2018
(3) World Refugee Day is June 20 annually.
April 24, 2018
(2) The persecution of christians in the middle east.
April 21, 2018
(1) Rohingya, the largest stateless group of people in the world.
April 21, 2018