Over the last week, violence has broken out in the town of Darjeeling and the surrounding Kalimpong Hills. The municipality lies within the Indian state of West Bengal, where India Gorkhas have long proposed a separate state of Gorkhaland, citing their linguistic and cultural differences with Bengali culture. A mass […]
African refugees and migrants seeking passage to Europe are at risk of being sold as cheap labour by smugglers in Libya, in what the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has described as a ‘slave trade’. In the last three years over 150,000 have made the journey from Libya, paying for […]
It is the world’s fastest growing displacement crisis, which needs swift and decisive action. Refugees from Boko Haram have converged on the Lake Chad Basin, fleeing from violence into terrible living conditions. 2.6 million people have been displaced in the region, and the pressures are significant: 11 million people are […]
It has been called ‘Africa’s last colony’, and the debate over its sovereignty is growing tumultuous once more. For four decades, Morocco and Sahrawi nationalists have disputed the ownership of Western Sahara, one of the most sparsely populated regions in the world. So how did we get to this position, […]
In the Amazonian village of El Tink, the indigenous Shuar have become embroiled in an escalating conflict with the Ecuadorian government and Chinese mining companies. The only entrance to the village, a 15-metre bridge, has been barricaded and is manned constantly, as aerial surveillance persists overhead. Yet, when President Rafael […]
A crucial tenet of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is that all humans should be free of slavery, abuses, violence and fear. Yet human trafficking is still a $150 billion industry affecting 46 million people across the world, akin to a “modern day slave trade.” Trafficking commonly masquerades as […]
With the near-total capture of Aleppo by government forces in December 2016, for some, it appeared that the Syrian civil war, which killed half a million, created 5 million refugees, and displaced a further 6 million, had come to a bloody end. Yet, conflict continues in Syria, with an estimated […]
