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Three-quarters of a million refugees have crossed Ukraine’s border with Moldova since Russia invaded. A year ago, Constanta Dohotaru volunteered to assemble food parcels for them; ...

Russians fleeing mobilisation are putting huge pressure on Georgia’s citizens, in a country already wary of its neighbour’s might. 

Attention has shifted to Russia´s aggression in Ukraine, while little is known about the human rights violations in Belarus. This article highlights five Belarusian media whose editors ...

Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Narendra Modi in India and Donald Trump in the United States: all three have undermined liberal institutions. The left has also accused liberalism of a lack of ...

Under the condition that they remain anonymous, a legal expert from inside Iran explains the political dimensions of this special piece of cloth. 

In Pakistan, the poor turn to a sophisticated network of philanthropists to avoid the shame of borrowing from family and friends.

For the ifa Research Programme "Culture and Foreign Policy" Manouchehr Shamsrizi explores the potential of video games and so-called metaverses for Germany's foreign cultural and ...

40 years of ifa exhibition funding - With more than four decades of experience and over 2,000 artistic positions abroad, ifa supports artists worldwide. How has ifa's exhibtion funding ...

Discrimination, hate crime, equality: Where was progress seen over the past years and what more needs to be done?