HUMAN RIGHTS

A daughter meets her parents, who were traveling from Iran, at the airport in early February.

How Trump’s Travel Ban Hurts Iranian Americans Like Me

02.08.17

By Persis Karim
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Giving Robots Human Rights Could Stop Them Destroying Us

01.19.17

By Tom Whyman
Portraits of Women on Strike Against Poland’s Ban on Abortion

10.04.16

By Karol Grygoruk
What It Looks Like When the Turkish Army Places Kurdish Communities Under Curfew

08.09.16

By Miriam Stanke
What It’s Like to Be a Gay Refugee in Germany

02.09.16

By Tobias Dammers
Why Fans Are Sending Legos to Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei

10.27.15

By Wendy Syfret
A British Mom Is Mad That Her Cigarette-Addicted Son Can’t Vape at School

09.25.15

By Manisha Krishnan
Bangladeshi Sweatshops Continue to Imperil Workers’ Lives

09.21.15

By Larry Towell
This Journalist Spoke to Chechens Living in the Shadow of War

06.24.15

By Alice Tchernookova
All That Is Missing from Greece’s New Civil-Partnership Legislation for Same-Sex Couples

06.11.15

By Melpomeni Maragkidou
Meeting Pakistan’s Radical Feminists

06.03.15

By Tonje Thilesen
Ghosts of Boko Haram: How Nigerian Refugees Are Coping in the Wake of the Baga Massacre

05.19.15

By Peter Tinti

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Gaming

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