Voters shouldn’t have to choose between being Dutch and being Turkish.
Dylan Martinez/Reuters
A recent spat between Turkey and the Netherlands reveals how Dutch-Turks are badly served by politics.
The wife of a jailed opposition leader, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of his arrest in Caracas, Venezuela.
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Venezuelans, fleeing hunger and repression at home, have surpassed Central Americans as the top US asylum-seekers.
Dar Digest (story ‘Muhafiz’), February 2015. Free from the fetters of common natural laws, horror stories represent a society’s fears and prejudices.
J.Schaflechner
Pakistani pulp fiction often portrays Hindu characters as evil demons and Muslims as heroes, an attempt to spread nationalist ideology.
The FARC, now undergoing the tricky process of disarmament, was still armed and active just a few months ago.
John Vizcaino/Reuters
Delays in setting up disarmament camps for former guerillas have cast doubt on the Colombian government’s commitment to peace. But the real problem is its national history.
The Syrian Democratic Forces were excluded from the latest round of peace talks.
Rodi Said/Reuters
Although the uprising in Syria will mark its sixth anniversary this month, the Syrian war has far from run its course.
‘Neither criminals nor illegals’: activists painted the U.S.-Mexico border in protest against US President Donald Trump’s new immigration reform.
Jose Luis Gonzales/Reuters
Draconian new US deportation policies are the last straw for Mexico’s government, which has endured months of Donald Trump’s insults and aggression.
The former workers’ camp for the construction of the LNG project in Komo has been looted and stripped bare.
Michael Main
The country is now compelled to send its army into an area where a major resource extraction project has failed to deliver on its promises to landowners.
Children wave Albanian and Kosovar flags for Kosovo independence day, February 2016.
Marko Djurica/Reuters
Recent events in France have triggered more tensions in the Balkans. But analysis should focus on regional tendencies to lean towards Russia or the US than on catastrophic scenarios.
Khalil Ashawi/Reuters
Syrian refugees have been banned from the US for the next 120 days. Whatever happens next, the country they are fleeing will never be the same again.
Military members from the Gabonese Armed Forces stand in formation in Libreville, on June 13 2016.
US Army-Africa-Tech. Sgt. Brian Kimball/Wikimedia
For Gabonese officers, military interventions like that underway now in the Central African Republic, are also a pathway to politics.
Will protesters have to flood US airports again?
Patrick Fallon/Reuters
As Trump’s travel ban hangs in limbo, what does it mean for science?
Newly-elected Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed,left, and outgoing president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Feisal Omar/Reuters
The Somali election didn’t deliver the long-awaited universal suffrage, but was another exercise in limited democracy that extended only to a small part of the population.
Members of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s team have accused Russia of hacking the campaign.
Robert Pratta/Reuters
Russia could undermine the idea of a shared European reality and sway three elections key to the future of the bloc.
U.S. residents in Mexico protest against President Donald Trump’s foreign policy towards Mexico.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Calls for civil resistance against the rise of right-wing populism have emerged. But political activism is more than taking to the streets.
A woman from Khonoma village, Nagaland. Can women from ‘Naga’ tribes access to equal political rights ?
Adnan Abidi/Reuters
In Nagaland, a northeastern state in India, the push to implement a law giving women more representation in local politics has triggered a violent backlash.
Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Providing women with credit improves gender inequality.
Who’s saluting whom?
Mike Segar/Reuters
By appointing generals to top political posts and hiking defence spending, Donald Trump is imperiling a cherished tenet of the US constitution: civilian control of the military.
A woman waits to be registered at a food distribution centre run by the United Nations World Food Programme in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan.
Reuters/Siegfried Modola
Nearly half of South Sudan’s population could be severely food insecure and at risk of death in the coming months because of the avoidable acts of civil war in a land of plenty.
Urban and social art at the first edition of ‘Neighbours’ festival in Katowice, in 2014.
Sebastian Pypłacz/Pobudka Koszutka
As Poland faces more and more social divisions, citizen movements develop through informal activities to reinforce a sense of community and belonging.
A woman reacts after a blast in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, November 4, 2016.
Sertac Kayar/Reuters
Turkey’s authoritarian regime has ruined the lives of many intellectuals and opponents of the regime. Resisting, even softly, is an act of survival.