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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.

Crime, natural disasters, assassinations of presidents: Haiti is in a never-ending political crisis. What is Germany undertaking to support this country politically? Jens Kraus-Massé ...

Nouara is 65 but ready to join thousands of others who burn their ID and pay traffickers for a chance of a new life in Europe.

The Baku shelter, run by someone who spent years homeless and on the streets, helps 650 mothers and children annually.