Feeding the Asian slave trade
Testimonies from Bangladeshi and Rohingya trafficking survivors provide evidence of a shift in tactics in one of Asia’s busiest human trafficking routes
A new life in the Netherlands: a Syrian refugee family’s story
Hanadi Alkalas and Walid Albitar and their three daughters are Syrian refugees who have been granted asylum in the Netherlands through its fast-track asylum process.They have settled in the suburban Dutch town of Kessel-Eik
Kurdish women battle the Islamic State
Reuters photographer Asmaa Waguih travelled to Mount Sinjar, Iraq, to document the life of women fighters at a PKK militia base
Colombia's FARC female fighters
Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is one of the world’s longest-running guerrilla insurgencies and turns 50 on May 27
Gay rodeo in Little Rock
Contestants at the International Gay Rodeo in Arkansas, a U.S. state which bans same-sex marriage, compete in events from barrel racing to bull riding
Charting the decline of hunger
Latest U.N. report on food security provides a graphic glimpse at how hunger has fallen since 1990 - and at how large the problem still looms in parts of the world
A decades-old temporary life in Thailand’s largest Burmese refugee camp
Most refugees fled 30 years ago, after a Burmese army offensive in Karen state