Once refugees themselves, Ugandans look to ‘return the good’ to people fleeing war in South Sudan by offering land and help A mix of Afrobeat and South Sudanese folk music resounds over the...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/01/is-uganda-worlds-best-place-for-refugees-south-sudan
Sergei Pavlovich, known as Policedog, sheds light on the community accused of aggressive activity on behalf of the Kremlin According to Sergei Pavlovich, one of the Russian-speaking world’s m...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/29/hack-election-ebay-confessions-belarusian-hacker
Since annexation many ethnic Tatar activists have been detained in outdated mental institutions, rights activists say Lawyers and human rights activists say Russian authorities in Crimea are in...
Spread facts, be careful, and don’t assume democracy is safe, say people who know what life is like under a strongman leader The rise of autocracy can be insidious, and doesn’t come with an...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/24/how-to-survive-tyranny-10-pieces-of-advice-from-turkey
A referendum on vast new powers for the president hangs in the balance despite his comprehensive crackdown on dissent Can you imagine a pre-dawn raid on the homes of every senior figure in the ...
Prisoners tell of solitary confinement and maltreatment after being caught up in ‘Kafkaesque’ media purge Scores of imprisoned Turkish journalists face a Kafkaesque nightmare of legal limbo...
Six persecuted writers describe the mental and physical toll of living in the country that jails more journalists than any other AGE 46 It is hard to be in prison. It’s even harder when it�...
Sergei Kechimov, appointed guardian of a holy lake by his community, says the indigenous way of life is under threat Sergei Kechimov, an indigenous Khanty reindeer herder , lives in a one-room ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/17/reindeer-herder-oil-excavators-siberia
Street protests that began with anger at a new tax have Belarus’s authoritarian government in their sights “Basta!” the placards read. “We are not slaves.” These are the most popular ...
Hundreds attend Fem Fest in Moscow to talk about domestic violence, rape and low pay in male-dominated society After years of operating in the shadows, Russia’s women’s rights activists are ...
Outside the Kazakh capital, Astana, the river snowscape is populated by strange figures. Detroit-based photographer ALEKSEY KONDRATYEV investigated and discovered they were ice fishermen, who br...
A group of activists, lawyers and artists have launched a platform to help citizen watchdogs in often dangerous situations In many African countries, the secretive and self-serving deeds of pol...
Security forces funded by US are accused of human rights abuses including summary executions and disappearances Just before his torturers pushed him out of the van, barely conscious, on to the ...
Exiled journalists tell of how decades of balanced post-conflict reporting is being dismantled by President Nkurunziza As a journalist, it is Aline’s job to report on her country and presiden...
In Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro, signs of ethnic tension are on the rise again A familiar billboard face looms large over the shabby streets and squares of the Balkan city of North Mit...
I was already used to abuse, but my post about a Russian military plane crash sparked a frightening campaign against me I can tell you what political harassment feels like in Putin’s Russia. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/unpatriotic-post-facebook-finally-flee-russia
Strongmen are back in vogue, but these six people are determined to defy the despots These are trying times. We live in an age of autocracy when strongmen (they are almost always men) abuse the...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/age-of-autocracy-dissidents-speaking-truth-to-power
The chaos of eastern Ukraine has taken a heavy toll on this Soviet-era winery, which once supplied more than half the country You would not know from Yuri’s calm demeanour, as he describes th...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/eastern-ukraine-wine-tour-war-zone-artwinery
From imprisoned journalists to the forthcoming referendum, tell us how the current climate is affecting you Turkey, once held up as an exemplar of secular democracy in the Muslim world, is now ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/erdogan-free-speech-turkey-journalists-referendum
Mass walkout over reneged 2013 deal on boosting pay and staffing has left patients untreated and medical union leaders in jail Kenya’s hospitals have almost ground to a halt, with millions fa...