A new life in the Netherlands: a Syrian refugee family’s story
Hanadi Alkalas and Walid Albitar and their three daughters are Syrian refugees who have been granted asylum in the Netherlands through its fast-track asylum process.They have settled in the suburban Dutch town of Kessel-Eik
Herders suffer in fight against Boko Haram
The Nigerian government shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency, leaving many residents with no livelihood, including many of the two million people displaced by the war
Feeding the Asian slave trade
Testimonies from Bangladeshi and Rohingya trafficking survivors provide evidence of a shift in tactics in one of Asia’s busiest human trafficking routes
Child marriage in Gaza
One morning, Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem received a phone call from a friend asking if he was interested in covering a wedding in the north of the Gaza Strip. The bride Tala Soboh is 14 years old, and her husband Ahmed is 15.
Female drug addicts in Tanzania
Up to 50,000 Tanzanians living in its largest city, Dar es Salaam are drug users, according to the charity Medecins Du Monde.
5 facts: why small-scale fishery matters
500 million people depend on small-scale fishery for their livelihoods. Here are 5 facts about the importance of small-scale fishery