A decorative cloth for some, a sign of resistance for others. All the aspects of "tatreez" come to light in Fatima Abbadi's latest photo series. By Jan Tomes
In recent years, thousands of Uighurs in China have disappeared without trace. Critics of China's policy of ethnic discrimination fear that many are being held in detention camps. Mairinisha will not accept that her husband has just 'disappeared'. She's demanding the Chinese authorities release the father of her two children.
At least 160 civilians, including volunteer anti-terrorism fighters, were killed in northern Burkina Faso last Friday in the deadliest Islamist attack in the country since 2015, plunging the country once more into mourning.
More than a million Chinese civil servants have been assigned to move into the homes of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, spending weeks as uninvited guests.
Persecution, prosecution and public shaming have led to a new wave of solidarity among women in Egypt. Could this kind of grassroots movement gain enough power to change the difficult situation on the ground?
As demonstrated by numerous statements by Egyptian women on social media, victims of sexual violence who do talk about their experience are usually met with disbelief or are accused of bringing it on themselves. Why is that so? And why are the perpetrators able to continue to commit crimes with impunity?
In the early hours of 14 June 2023, a heavily overcrowded, rusty fishing trawler carrying as many as 750 migrants capsized off the coast of Greece. In this episode of BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents, three men describe surviving one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in decades.
