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In the first installment of “Pixels of War,” our diary series on Syrian journalists, Artino describes his time as a war photographer, wanted by the regime, in besieged Eastern Ghouta.
Nujeen Mustafa didn’t realize fleeing from Syria to Europe in a wheelchair would be considered extraordinary. Now in Germany, she has written a book about her journey. Speaking to Refugees Deeply, she says she hopes the attention will demonstrate that refugees are more than numbers.
Of the 25,000 street children in Congo’s capital, the majority are young men. But while boys can make money through manual labor, girls often find that prostitution and exploitation are their only options for survival.
It has been seven months since the Syrian regime and its allies “liberated” the ancient city of Palmyra from ISIS control, but residents without ties to the Syrian government have still not been allowed to go back home.
A new report from the Pacific Institute looks at the comparative costs of different water efficiency and supply options that could help supplement California’s water, including desalination, water reuse and stormwater capture.
A ballot measure passed in June holds big lessons for the San Francisco Bay Area. The effort to restore wetlands revealed residents’ motivations for protecting the bay and could inform future efforts.
It is unclear whether the upcoming winter will be the rainy season the state so desperately needs. If not, California could be facing mandatory water conservation measures again as voluntary reductions fail to impress.
In the next video in our series “Choice and Change,” we meet Indigenous Guatemalan Lucy Cutzan, who defied cultural norms to go on birth control. Now she helps other women, tackling myths and raising awareness about contraception.
The top U.S. refugee official, Anne Richard, talks to Refugees Deeply about President Obama’s legacy on forced migration, threats to asylum seekers’ rights in Pakistan and Kenya, and a shocking end to bipartisan support for resettlement.
As the health community marks World Sight Day, women from low- or middle-income countries still make up two-thirds of blind people around the globe – and most of them have a condition that can be cured or prevented.
Millions of Colombians forced from their homes by civil war find their immediate hopes of return dashed by the referendum result. With a lengthy new round of negotiations now expected, compensation, clearance of landmines and settlement of land rights remain on hold.
In Cambodia, the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal hears from survivors of forced marriage, but critics say the court should also cover other acts of gender-based violence.
The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals promise gender equality, but a panel marking the International Day of the Girl agreed that achieving the goals requires monitoring and active participation by girls to make sure governments deliver.
In the next installment of our “Experts to Watch” series, we highlight seven experts spreading news and analysis about the horrific conditions inside Syria’s besieged cities.
Conservation and innovation at the urban level have helped California weather five years of drought. Here are 10 leading experts helping California’s cities to be drought-proof and more water efficient.
Nujeen Mustafa, a Syrian teenager born with cerebral palsy, fled to Europe last year in a wheelchair. In an excerpt from “Nujeen,” a new book telling her story, she describes crossing the Aegean Sea on the same day that 3-year-old Alan Kurdi died.
Somali refugees who lived for decades in Kenya’s Dadaab camp are returning to Somalia via a repatriation program, only to find a fragile peace and shortage of supplies. New arrivals in Kismayo tell Ashley Hamer they feel let down and afraid.
From cultural curse to social entrepreneur, Bangladeshi innovator Anjali Sarker is determined to cut through caste and gender to allow people at “the bottom of the pyramid” to rise to their potential.
With a little tweaking of the sewage treatment process, it’s possible to create custom blends of irrigation water for farming. David Jassby, a professor of environmental engineering at UC Riverside, explains how.
An intrepid artist endeavors to complete a massive iceberg painting to communicate the dire condition of planet Earth – by focusing on the people who live in the Arctic.
From clean water solutions to detecting pneumonia and pre-eclampsia, a new report from PATH highlights a handful of key measures that could avert the deaths of over 6 million mothers and children by 2030.
American cartoonist Sarah Glidden details the personal stories of refugees and the many challenges of reporting on them in her comics journalism book “Rolling Blackouts.”
In the first video of our series “Choice and Change,” which takes a closer look at family planning in the developing world, we visit an island on Lake Victoria where a radical project combining contraception and conservation has helped save a community.
As counselors for the Meri Saathi helpline, midwife Hima Mishra and her team field hundreds of calls a day from people with questions about sex, pregnancy and abortion, helping to shed light on reproductive health rights in Nepal.
It wasn’t too long ago that the so-called “yuck factor” associated with recycled water was a deal breaker for many communities. But new research shows that Californians are warming to the concept.
As leaders met for the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan, asylum seekers in Serbia – many of them Afghans – marched toward the border with Hungary. Photographer Danielle Villasana visited one of the makeshift settlements on the Serbian border where hundreds are stranded.
South Africa’s constitution protects reproductive rights, but women still struggle with issues like unsafe abortion and high HIV rates. We speak with activist Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng about the need for political cooperation in finding solutions.
Following the first-ever White House Arctic Science Ministerial, representatives have agreed to strengthen Arctic observations and data sharing, thus expanding scientific understanding of the Arctic and building regional resilience.
Wissam lives with his wife in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, which has been under government siege since July. Violence is escalating in his neighborhood, but the teacher and activist wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
Umer Ali travels to the Pakistani border city of Peshawar for the first in our “Return to Afghanistan” series, finding that the forced return of thousands of Afghan refugees is breaking up marriages and dividing families.
Farah is a young woman living in Syria’s capital city, where she faces the daily struggles of trying to maintain a normal social and professional life in a country being ripped apart by war.
Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed several news bills into law that impact California water. We take a look at six of these, which include measures aimed at providing help for failing water agencies, cutting down on excessive water use and making the most of stormwater.
The Syrian government’s recent tourism videos of beautiful scenery and nightlife look ludicrous to Westerners who know the brutal truth about Aleppo – but the West isn’t the intended audience for this publicity blitz.
World leaders are increasingly calling on businesses to play their part in meeting the global displacement crisis. Amid criticism that corporate social responsibility is merely reputational, we look at the evolving forms of private-sector engagement.
A recent ruling against virginity testing has reignited debate in South Africa. As rights activists condemn the practice for being discriminatory, cultural activists defend it as an integral part of Zulu tradition.
Forces allied with the Syrian government advanced over the weekend in Aleppo, as Syrian and Russian airstrikes continued to pound rebel-held areas of Syria’s largest city.
Farah is a young woman living in Syria’s capital city, where she faces the daily struggles of trying to maintain a normal social and professional life in a country being ripped apart by war.
A California loan program for clean water projects that usually runs a surplus can’t keep up with demand after the drought boosted interest in water recycling and reuse projects.
The U.S. objective in Syria is a political solution to the conflict. But for this to be successful, it will have to account for the complex governance structures and dynamics already established across Syria, write Daniel Serwer, Rose Youhana and Katherine Preston.
When girls reach their teen years in parts of India, they often lose the opportunities afforded to males. But some young women are writing their own futures, using what they learn from innovative education and leadership initiatives in India’s poorest communities.
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