Archive for the Category ‘Report’

Original sin

Original sin

Church child abuse scandal in Germany: Report by Lalon Sander

Outcast

Outcast

LGBT people in Uganda live under threat and fear. Ugandan homophobia, ironically, doubles as an expression of resistance to the West while being stoked and funded by conservative leaders and church clergy from the very same West. Report by Ariel Rubin.

Mothers of Diyarbakir

Mothers of Diyarbakir

A journey in the war-torn heartland of Turkish Kurdistan. Kurds in Turkey faced one of the most brutal of oppressions, after the military coup of 1980. Hundreds of Kurdish people, among them a large number of intellectuals, were tortured in Diyarbakir – recognised as the capital of the Kurds – prison. By Shirvan Nuray Sarikaya.

Bad cop

Bad cop

Police violence in Germany. Activists had been claiming for years that German policemen used arbitrary and excessive violence at demonstrations, that people who brought charges against officers often had to face charges themselves. Report by Lalon Sander.

Daughter of peace

Daughter of peace

Cover story by Deepti Priya Mehrotra, author of Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and the struggle for peace in Manipur. Irom Sharmila has been on a fast unto death for ten years, demanding a repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur, India. Ten innocent people were mowed down by security forces in [...]

From the killing fields to the courthouse

From the killing fields to the courthouse

Amila Jašarević details how the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, failed the victims and survivors of one of the worst genocides in history: Genocide in Bosnia.

Blood cotton

Blood cotton

Tasneem Khalil reports on forced child labour in Uzbekistan.

Lost childhood

Lost childhood

Amila Jašarević reports on children in Danish asylum centres.

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