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Prayers, protest and peace: How women helped end Liberia’s civil conflict

Mar 10, 2025 | unbiasthenews.org | Tina S. Mehnpaine |Fernanda Seavon |Riccardo Biggi |Raluca Besliu

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Democracy Playbook

Jan 28, 2025 | unbiasthenews.org | Ray Mwareya |Tristan James Biglete |Shaylim Valderrama

An alliance that came together against embezzlement of road tolls is using a winning combination of civil disobedience, public protest and crowd-funded strategic litigation to challenge corruption at the highest levels of South African power.
Why we are launching the Democracy Playbook

Apr 10, 2024 | unbiasthenews.org | Tina Lee

Alarm bells have been going off for some time, but they have now reached a fever pitch. News articles that once tentatively posed the question, “Is democracy at risk in [insert any country all over world]?” have now been replaced with declarative statements. Democracy is in peril. Democracy dies in the darkness. Democracy is in decline.
The unidentified: Unmarked refugee graves on the Greek borders

Dec 8, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Danai Maragoudaki |Daphne Tolis

Written by Danai Maragoudaki, Daphne Tolis, Aristea Protonotariou Edited by Stavros Malihoudis and Tina Lee Illustration by Antoine Bouraly Read this article in Greek in Solomon. The phone rang on a morning in October 2022 at work, in Finland, where 35-year-old Mohamed Samim has been living for the last ten years or so. His nephew did not have good news: his brother Samim, Tarin Mohamad, along with his son and two daughters, was on a boat that sank near a Greek island, having sailed from the...
Counting the invisible victims of Spain’s EU borders

Dec 8, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Eoghan Gilmartin |Leah Pattem

Written by Eoghan Gilmartin and Leah Pattem Illustration by Antoine Bouraly Edited by Tina Lee Read this article in Spanish in El Diario. In January 2020, Alhassane Bangoura was buried in an unmarked grave in the Muslim area of Teguise municipal cemetery in Lanzarote as city officials and members of the local Muslim community watched on. He had been born only a couple of weeks earlier onboard a cramped patera migrant boat on which his mother, who is from Guinea, and 42 others were trying to...
Missing data, missing souls in Italy

Dec 8, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Gabriele Cruciata

Written by Gabriele Cruciata Illustration by Antoine Bouraly Edited by Tina Lee Photos by Tina Xu Before the Syrian civil war erupted, Refaat Hazima was a barber in Damascus. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had also been barbers. Thanks to his craftsmanship, flair, and a reputation built over four generations, Refaat was a wealthy man. Together with his wife – a doctor for the national service – he could afford to have his three children study instead of sending them to work at...
Why journalists are speaking out against Western media bias in reporting on Israel-Palestine

Dec 7, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Belle de Jong

Written by Belle de Jong Illustration by Walker Gawande Edited by Tina Lee More than 1500 journalists from dozens of US news organisations have signed an open letter protesting the Western media’s coverage of Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians since the October 7th attack. Condemning Israel’s targeted killing of reporters in Gaza and criticising Western media bias, they write that newsrooms are “accountable for dehumanising rhetoric that has served to justify the ethnic cleansing of...
“Women and children”: Why doesn’t sympathy for civilians extend to Muslim men?

Nov 28, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Anmol Irfan

Written by Anmol Irfan Illustration by Charity Atukunda The recent hostage deal reached between the government of Israel and Hamas has seen the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza in exchange for the release of Palestinian women and children detained in Israeli prisons. The framing of these deals is telling, especially as it is another example of a focus on Palestinian women and children which – while important to highlight – also seems to erase the humanity and potential innocence of...
“BACK DOOR PRIVATIZATION”? Global South’s Share of Deep-Sea Mining Profits Under Scrutiny

Nov 15, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Patrick Egwu |Gabriela Ramirez |Gabriela Ramírez

“Back door privatization”?
Call Me by My Name: How the lack of sex education in India is impacting society

Oct 29, 2023 | unbiasthenews.org | Ankita Anand

Written by Ankita Anand Illustration by Alberto Mier, CNN Trigger warning: Rape, assault In an Indian mini-series called Who’s Your Gynac, the doctor exhorts her patients to chuck euphemisms and say vagina and penis when referring to those body parts. A Hindi film, Oh My God 2, shows a father taking on the education system, the judiciary and the society at large for shying away from sex education. These examples, though, still remain the exception when it comes to accepting sex education as...