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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
Tasneem Khalil reports on forced child labour in Uzbekistan.
Amila Jašarević reports on children in Danish asylum centres.
