Diplomacy is Andrei Sannikov’s life. In the 1990s, he was instrumental in disarming Belarus and decommissioning the world’s most dangerous nuclear arsenal. Under Lukashenko’s dictatorship, he resigned from the civil service in protest and took the dangerous path of opposition.
When US forces withdraw from Afghanistan, Australian journalist Jordan Bryon stays behind to document life under male-dominated Taliban leadership. A new job gives him and his colleagues Teddy and Kiana unprecedented access to a Taliban stronghold in northwest Afghanistan.
Aaju was a child when she was sent from Greenland to Denmark. She lost her mother tongue and her Indigenous culture. She later fled to Arctic Canada – and witnessed the colonisation of the Inuit there as well. Today, she is a renowned lawyer working to hold her oppressors to account in both Canada and Denmark.
As the fate of the Amazon basin hangs in the balance, so too does the fate of its Indigenous communities. Since 2014, at least 600 Indigenous forest guardians have been murdered while protecting their territories.
They have gone through displacement, discrimination and a lack of opportunity – but they have one goal in mind: winning a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games. Young stateless athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon have been forced to flee their homes and leave their families behind.
Tanks and snipers target the gardens between the houses. For one month, the Russian army occupies the small Ukrainian town of Bucha near Kiev. When forces withdraw in March 2022, the houses have been destroyed and the civilian population executed.
Indian television journalist Ravish Kumar appears on primetime television – and he is on edge. For many years, his news channel has been known for its solid research, fact-based analysis and independent journalism.