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An Iranian transgender man who fled discrimination in Iran to Turkey in 2020 is pleading for help to relocate to a third country because of harassment by other Iranian refugees in Turkey
The Oscar-nominated documentary “Hunger Ward,” by award-winning filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald, chronicles doctors’ struggle to save lives of starving children in conflict-ridden Yemen
Amid ongoing mass shootings in the United States, Americans remain divided on how to reduce the carnage from these events and also from isolated shootings
Female journalists in Afghanistan are calling on Kabul to include their representative at peace talks to ensure media and women’s rights are protected
Inspired by a growing trend in the U.S., some villagers in Indonesia have set up free libraries to foster the love of reading and learning among local children
The Myanmar army is attacking journalists and increasing censorship in its deadly crackdown against opponents of the February coup. Five major media groups have been banned and the internet has been shut down, but Burmese journalists are not giving up
The Mekong is one of the world’s great rivers — a 5,000-kilometer waterway threading from China through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. However, dams have subverted the ecosystem, bringing drought during the monsoon season and high waters when it should be dry. That has forever changed the lives of those who depend on the river for food and work in northeastern Thailand, a poor region bordering Laos and Cambodia
In Colombia, vulnerable indigenous communities in the Amazon region are among the priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination. In the riverside settlement of Paujil Indigenous reserve, health teams go door-to-door to vaccinate as many eligible community residents as possible
Members of the LGBTQ community in Iraqi Kurdistan say they face threats from their society and their government, leading some to leave the country
An ethnic Kazakh from China has been welcomed back to Kazakstan by his family at Almaty airport after 17 years of captivity in China…Sergei Sazanakov was hunting in Russia’s Khakassia region when an accident left him trapped in the snow overnight. He lost his lower legs to frostbite, and later had to fight for his children in court after his wife left him