In Kazakhstan’s Oil Heartland, the Workers Who Built the Country Are Dying Quietly
Kazakhstan is the world's 13th-largest oil producer, and hydrocarbons fund nearly half its national budget. In the steppe villages above the Tengiz and Kashagan fields, residents describe respiratory illness, sudden deaths, falsified air quality data and entire towns being rebuilt elsewhere to escape the smell.
The War Crime No One Wants To Name
Human rights lawyer Sari Bashi and journalist Sara Cincurova join Kwangu Liwewe Agyei on Global Insights to discuss how sexual violence is used as a weapon of war from Israel-Palestine to Ukraine, and why survivors' voices are so often pushed aside.
An Afghan Woman’s Ascent of Everest
A survivor of a 2014 Taliban ambush in Afghanistan who feigned death to live, River Ahmad fled the country in 2019 and is now climbing Everest for the women and girls back home — and for her brother, who died by suicide.
The Living Fragments of Al-Andalus
A growing movement in Spain’s Andalusia argues that everyday gestures and half-remembered prayers are the unwritten remnants of Muslim Iberia, and an answer to the far right’s narratives about national identity.
A Yemeni Caretaker Is Fighting To Save Aden’s Last Hindu Temple
For nearly three decades, Ahmed Abdul Jalil has watched over a cave temple in Aden, Yemen, built more than 160 years ago. After looters, militants and land-grabbers, he is all that stands between it and ruin.