(38) The Contrast Between The Two Worlds That We Currently Live In.
Uğur Gallenkuş is a Turkish graphic designer who aims to draw attention to various injustices happening all over the world. He creates dramatic collages by combining photographs from different parts of the world to show the extreme contrast between them and his art is truly eye-opening. The artist says that an image can be more […]
(37) The Shocking Numbers Behind the Global Modern Slavery.
We might like to think that slavery is a thing of the past, but in fact in the 21st century the opposite is true. There are over 54 million people across the world caught up in the modern-day slave trade, according to a new report. Modern slavery affects vulnerable people fleeing war zones, some of […]
(36) Mena Mangal: Journalist and Women’s Rights Campaigner Shot Dead in Broad Daylight in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A prominent journalist and adviser to the Afghan parliament has been gunned down in Kabul, just days after posting on social media that she feared for her life. Mena Mangal was killed on Saturday morning in a brazen, public attack carried out in broad daylight. In a Facebook post on May 3, she said had […]
(35) Sri Lanka bombings death toll rises to 290 in ‘brand-new type of terrorism’
At least 290 people are now known to have died in a coordinated attack on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, in what officials have called a “brand-new type of terrorism.” Police have arrested 24 people in connection with the suicide bombs, which injured at least 500 people, in the worst violence […]
(34) U.S. Black Women 243% More Likely to Die During Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postpartum
A year long investigation by ProPublica and NPR has revealed that in addition to the U.S. having the highest rate of maternal death of any industrialized country, black women are 243% more likely than whites or hispanics to die during pregnancy, childbirth or the postpartum period. The revelation that black mothers are dying at an […]
(33) Vietnam’s Hmong Christians are persecuted for their beliefs.
In Vietnam, more than a million people are part of the Hmong group. Over the last 30 years, increasing numbers of Hmong have converted to Christianity from the group’s traditional religion of animism (belief in the spirit world and the interconnectedness of all living things). As this article shows, turning from animism to believe in […]
(32) New Zealand shooting victims remembered for the lives they lived
A Syrian refugee and his teenage sons, a Pakistani academic and a goalkeeper on the national futsal team are among the victims of Friday’s (15/03/2019) terror attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand. According to a police statement on Sunday, 50 people were killed and 50 injured after a gunman went on a rampage in two mosques, […]
(31) #MeToo movement named Time magazine’s Person of the Year
Magazine celebrates anti-harassment movement by naming ‘The Silence Breakers’ on its cover after millions shared stories of sexual assault. “The Silence Breakers”, the vanguard of a global movement by millions of women to share their stories of sexual harassment and abuse, was revealed on Wednesday to be Time magazine’s Person of the Year. The announcement […]
(30) The Brutal History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’
Between 1932 and 1945, Japan forced women from Korea, China and other occupied countries to become military prostitutes. On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops began a six-week-long massacre that essentially destroyed the Chinese city of Nanking. Along the way, Japanese troops raped between 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women. The mass rapes horrified the world, and […]
(29) Saving Our Forests Means Survival for Indigenous People
The world’s 370 million indigenous people are only 5 per cent of the total population but they officially hold 18 per cent of the land and lay claim to far more. Their home areas across 70 countries from the Arctic to the South Pacific include many of the planet’s biodiversity hotspots. Unsurprisingly, indigenous peoples have […]