​In the 1960s, the Black Supplementary School Movement opened voluntary Saturday schools to address the gaps in an education system that were leaving Black children behind. Sixty years later, more tha...

Spain’s Canary Islands have become one of Europe’s main arrival points for unaccompanied migrant children. One in five people dies on the Canarian migration route with ocean crossings that take severa...

“How can I focus on the laws of physics or the rules of language when the sound of gunfire or raids fills the classroom?” As conflict tightens its grip on the West Bank, classrooms are becoming frontl...

In April 2025, a parade of 50 bulldozers carried out a forced demolition of 2,000 homes, referred to as “encroachments”, around Chandola Lake, in Ahmedabad, India. Bangali Vas wasn’t the first poor Mu...

Agnes Wanjiru went missing 14 years ago. Two months later, her body was pulled from a septic tank. Now, Robert James Purkiss could become the first British soldier in history to face trial abroad for ...

Refugees from Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, Somalia and Ukraine have successfully integrated into local communities across the length and breadth of Scotland. ‘New Scots’, a project by photograph...

Though the contested IPP scheme was abandoned by the UK government in 2012, hundreds of people remain imprisoned without a release date.

​​​When Israeli bombardment and repeated displacements turn normal life upside down, how do autistic and non-verbal children in Palestine cope? In Gaza, Jenin shares the experiences of her autistic br...

Academia and the legal profession are steeped in hierarchy, so law students are no strangers to power dynamics. But Christine Olando argues that the hierarchies faced by law students in Kenya are uniq...

Inspired by “podcast bros” and “bro culture”, this creative piece riffs off podcast dialogue to hold up a mirror to "the manosphere".

Inspired by “podcast bros” and “bro culture”, this creative piece riffs off podcast dialogue to hold up a mirror to "the manosphere".

The quiet violence of marital rape in India persists today, a crime that the law still refuses to acknowledge. Through stories of survivors across class, caste, and geography, this story traces how the colonial rule of the British Empire has created las...

The quiet violence of marital rape in India persists today, a crime that the law still refuses to acknowledge. Through stories of survivors across class, caste, and geography, this story traces how the colonial rule of the British Empire has created las...

Tackling politics, feminism, the climate and police brutality, our staff pick features critically-acclaimed and award-winning human rights films and series from around the world. From an underdog taki...

The quiet violence of marital rape in India persists today, a crime that the law still refuses to acknowledge. Through stories of survivors across class, caste, and geography, this story traces how th...

Tackling politics, feminism, the climate and police brutality, our staff pick features critically-acclaimed and award-winning human rights films and series from around the world. From an underdog taki...

Tackling politics, feminism, the climate and police brutality, our staff pick features critically-acclaimed and award-winning human rights films and series from around the world. From an underdog taki...

Volunteering in Africa, Asia or Latin America is a bucket list experience for many young people. But after spending a summer ‘helping' at a school in South Africa, our writer reflects on their experience

More than two million refugees are living in camps on the Myanmar-Thailand border. In one camp, Ipsita Paul speaks with Karenni refugees to understand what forced them to flee Myanmar, what life is like in the refugee camp, and what the future holds.

Somaliland is still dealing with the effects of the mass murders committed under Barre's rule, decades after the Isaaq genocide claimed tens of thousands of lives and left half a million refugees. As efforts to find mass graves and preserve testimonies ...

Anas al-Amarin, a young Palestinian from Gaza, uses social media to raise funds for his survival and medical care after losing his arm in an Israeli airstrike.

In 2020, a long-running dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave escalated into war. After a nine-month blockade from December 2022, a military offensive by Azerbaijan forced 100,000 ethnic Armenians to evacuate their hom...

Growing up in a slum in Delhi while navigating his own disabilities and his mother's chronic illness, Puneet Singhal reflects on a series of interviews with disabled people in Delhi as part of his Green Disability campaign for climate justice and disabi...

The Venezuelan displacement crisis is the largest in Latin America's modern history. Driven by economic collapse, political repression and a breakdown of services, about eight million people – one quarter of Venezuela's population - are now displaced gl...

In Namibia, vets are monitoring zoonotic diseases to prevent risks of future pandemics. With the World Health Assembly adopting a new Pandemic Treaty, Trump's ‘America First' cuts to global health efforts raise a key question: how can scientists stop bo...

Juliette Pavy was named Sony World Photographer of the Year 2024 for her series Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women. Sophie Holloway hears how Pavy discovered the issue and how she supported Inuit wome...

For over a decade, Lacuna Magazine has been amplifying powerful human rights storytelling from every corner of the globe. This collection from 2025 bring together a diverse array of political writing ...

The Venezuelan displacement crisis is the largest in Latin America’s modern history. Driven by economic collapse, political repression and a breakdown of services, about eight million people – one qua...

During a visit to Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, student Alisha Adjei developed a deeper understanding of the trauma inflicted by slavery. But she also left Ghana with questions about the way slavery and...

What is it like to be disabled in prison or police custody? If something goes wrong, how do you access the structures, tools and treatment you need to survive? Around 36% of UK prisoners are disabled,...

Looking back on the 2024 UK riots, this story conveys the fear and frustration felt by many who no longer felt safe in their home country. Reflecting on her identity as a first-generation British-Sri ...

Despite being met with widespread disbelief, could Donald Trump’s AI-generated vision of ‘Trump Gaza’ be following the earlier example set by Bali? Reflecting on the tourism boom after Indonesia’s dea...

More than two million refugees are living in camps on the Myanmar-Thailand border. In one camp, Ipsita Paul speaks with Karenni refugees to understand what forced them to flee Myanmar, what life is li...

In the diaspora, students with Nigerian heritage are retracing their roots with Yoruba language classes. The lessons aim to inspire confidence about a culture and heritage that might otherwise feel be...

Growing up in a slum in Delhi while navigating his own disabilities and his mother’s chronic illness, Puneet Singhal reflects on a series of interviews with disabled people in Delhi as part of his Gre...