Brazilian influencers: We are precarious workers too!
Millions of influencers are facing working conditions marked by uncertainty, irregular pay, fluctuating follower counts, and compromised mental health.
Read moreMillions of influencers are facing working conditions marked by uncertainty, irregular pay, fluctuating follower counts, and compromised mental health.
Read moreIn Nepal’s Ramechhap district, the Majhi community is facing displacement and cultural loss due to urbanization, climate change, and state policies.
Read moreThe worldwide solidarity movements with Palestine are embedded within intersectional struggles for larger freedom. Here, we cover the case of South Africa.
Read moreA witness from Gaza describes the everyday life of people as the Israeli genocide continues unabated.
Read moreThe strange story of the abandoned Moorish cemetery in Asturias where hundreds of Moroccan soldiers who died fighting on Franco's side during the Spanish Civil War are buried.
Read moreOur ancestors, who were often perceived as “ignorant” or “uncivilized” by colonists and western powers remain a model example of living in harmony with nature.
Read moreAcross Syria, natural forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. Fueled by seasonal wildfires and unregulated logging, a seemingly endless cycle of deforestation has set in.
Read moreThe southern Turkish province of Hatay has a large Arabic-speaking population. Beside the refugees who came in the past ten years, an ancient Syrian dialect is still spoken.
Read moreSyrians and Syrian-Palestinians fled to the Gaza Strip to escape death in the dictator's prisons only to face peril and seek refuge from Israeli occupation bombardments.
Read moreStarvation during war is used by some countries to clear out their storage facilities filled with expired food; an opportune moment to help, humiliate and disrespect suffering people – all at the same time – while scoring public relations points at home.
Read moreFrom menstrual precariousness to women in prisons, a journalism network comprised of women from several countries around the Mediterranean Sea, discusses women’s challenges and struggles from within a feminist lens, in Arabic, English and French in addition to other Mediterranean original languages.
Read moreIn her project My Fascist Grandpa, the Italian artist and photographer Laura Fiorio focuses on Italy’s fascist and colonial history through the lens of shared family histories.
Read moreSweida, with its various towns and villages, has been witnessing widespread protests, demonstrations, strikes, and sharp statements opposing the ruling regime for over four months. This article, first published on Syria Untold in October, investigates these protests’ origin, and what has been happening in this province since 2011.
Read moreSurvivors of Genocide in Darfur 20 years later. Their struggle and resistance in Jordan
Read moreUsers, activists and journalists have denounced the censorship, particularly by Facebook and Instagram, of posts reporting on what is happening in Gaza and of messages of solidarity with its inhabitants
Read moreI’ve been a journalist for more than 25 years, and I have never witnessed a time when editors were so careless when it comes to running stories based on unverified accounts.
Read moreLast June in Berlin, an internationalist gathering took place, Beyond Equality: Feminisms Reclaiming Life. Three days of discussions and sharing to reaffirm that feminism is alive and present.
Read moreThousands of people have landed in the past few weeks in Lampedusa, closer to Tunisian coasts than Italian ones. The so-called emergency is created by the Italian government for electoral purposes and more repression.
Read moreAfter the killing of 17 years old French Algerian Nahel by police, riots erupted again in France. Violence and social exclusion are rooted in the history of the old colonial power's banlieues, and police repression of urban revolts shows a neo-colonial approach, write sociologist Gülçin Erdi.
Read moreA personal account of what it feels to live in contemporary Ecuador, where violence is part of everyday life, a "death world" where governments leave people to die.
Read moreA year after a massive earthquake claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Syrians and Turks, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless or traumatised, Untold Stories relaunches its ‘Earthquake' dossier published in collaboration with Orient XXI
Read moreAlready having challenges to access assistance pre-earthquake – as Syrian children have fewer opportunities to be integrated into Turkish kindergartens – and with schools closed for several weeks in a row, Syrian mothers’ role as caregivers has become increasingly difficult. And it’ll have long-lasting consequences, especially on the psychological level for both the mothers and their young children.
Read moreAt the time of the earthquake catastrophe, Syrians came again together. They crossed the conflict-made borders to help and support each other’s. Hate speech disappeared from the social media. Civil society organizations, born after the 2011’s uprising, prove once again to be more effective than States and international agencies.
Read moreFrom the war of independence to the 2019 popular movement, the intersectional feminist Amal Hadjadj reflects on the history of feminism in her country, Algeria. New and older generations’ different orientations and priorities, in search for a common ground.
Read moreFarah Youssef talks to herself, and to the readers, tracing her feminist path through revolution, exile, activism.
Read moreThe failing of Twitter’s Blue Tick policy.
Read moreThe Lina Ben Mhenni feminist school is a space where we engage in self-discovery, while we also embark on a collective journey, which lead us to see the Other within ourselves, and simultaneously to see our different and similar realities from an intersectional perspective.
Read moreIn this article, my concern is not to criticize and compare the different tools per se. I am rather more interested in reviewing the concept of justice, and its intended purposes in these feminist circles, which I am a part in one way or another.
Read moreAs one of the most marginalised and voiceless communities in Lebanon, Palestinian refugees have been on the frontline of Lebanon’s economic crisis.
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