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People hold photos, lay flowers and light candles during a vigil outside the Fox News and NBC News headquarters in Washington, D.C., August 11, 2025, honouring journalists killed in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues. © Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Dying for the Truth

Despite overwhelming international condemnation, Israel continues to try to maintain an information vacuum in Gaza.

12 Aug 25

Sexual harassment and stalking are the most commonly reported forms of technology-facilitated violence experienced by women and girls. © Kiwistocks/Freepik

Digital Abuse Knows No Borders

This is a global issue that crosses national borders and spans contexts, although with grimly similar consequences.

1 Aug 25

People visit a market in the city of Homs on January 22, 2025. Homs, the country’s third-largest city, has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites and Christians and was heavily damaged in fighting over the years. © Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Once Again, Ordinary Syrians Suffer

The latest escalation between Israel and Iran stirs familiar and unsettling patterns of fear, uncertainty and helplessness.

26 Jun 25

Mother of Ukrainian officer Ivan Skrypnyk cries during the funeral ceremony for her son on March 17, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. The soldier died in Sunday's airstrike on the nearby International Center for Peacekeeping and Security at the Yavoriv military complex. © Alexey Furman/Getty Images

Negotiations Over Ukraine Are Missing a Human Dimension

Ukrainians want peace more than anyone else. But we demand real peace.

12 Mar 25

A Palestinian boy is seen carrying food aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in al-Shati refugee camp on January 13, 2009, in Gaza City. © Abid Katib/Getty Images

How Malign Information Harms Humanitarian Workers

The demonisation of civil society online can have real-life repercussions.

16 Jan 25

The Beirut skyline is seen at sunset on August 06, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. The recent assassination of a Hezbollah military commander in Lebanon, as well as the killing of the political leader of Hamas in Iran, has heightened concerns of a wider regional war between Israel and Iran-backed enemies like Hezbollah. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Lebanon: Nothing About This is Normal

Despite ordinary people’s great resilience, we must never normalise civilians forced to live in a state of war.

9 Aug 24

A Ukrainian tank drives down a street in the heavily damaged town of Siversk which is situated near the front lines with Russia in Siversk, Ukraine. © Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Why Ukraine’s Fight Must Continue

A premature deal would be wrong, not least because we already tried – and it failed.

19 Apr 24

A protester holds up photographs showing murdered civilians of the Ukrainian town of Bucha near Kyiv during a demonstration against the Russian military invasion of Ukraine on April 06, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. © Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Ukraine: Fighting for Human Values

On the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion, Nobel prize-winner calls for world’s continued support and decisive action.

23 Feb 24

Police Major Bohdan Oleksandrovych Lukavenko, a senior investigator of special importance cases of the administration of the of Kharkiv oblast, dusts for fingerprints on items found in a building used as a local headquarters by Russian occupying forces in Vyshneve, Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine. © Carl Court/Getty Images

Training and Technology Support Justice Processes, But Challenges Remain

Authors of landmark study identify Ukrainian achievements amid ongoing hostilities.

28 Nov 23

A man pushes his bike through debris and destroyed Russian military vehicles on a street on April 06, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has accused Russian forces of committing a "deliberate massacre" as they occupied and eventually retreated from Bucha, 25km northwest of Kyiv. Hundreds of bodies have been found in the days since Ukrainian forces regained control of the town. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

In the Name of Ukraine

True justice will bring closure, create transparency, sustain democracy and ultimately support national security.

24 Oct 23

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