A new data protection law could weaken the landmark act that empowered millions to hold the government accountable.

The clash over language teaching is less about classrooms and more about who gets to define what it means to be Indian.

Often quite young, they were convicted to long prison sentences for infanticide. Child rights activists say it runs afoul of ...

A decision by the country’s highest court opens up nearshore waters to export-minded commercial trawlers, waters that had ...

Months after an informal settlement’s demolition, the site is under development as displaced residents grapple with rebuilding their lives. LAGOS, NIGERIA — The sound of excavators shattered the quiet ...

United by grief, they’re fighting to make the former president answer for extrajudicial killings during his campaign against drug trafficking. MANILA, PHILIPPINES — It’s been nearly five months since ...

The Dharavi neighborhood in Mumbai — Asia’s largest informal settlement — is located on prime real estate. Many people who live there now are under pressure to relocate to an area near a toxic ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement, is attempting to block potential political candidates from running as independents. In April, it introduced a requirement for ...

ASHULIA, BANGLADESH — Lima Akter, 28, sold her television first. Then her phone, then her refrigerator. Now, she plans to sell her sewing machine. After working in the garment industry for 12 years, ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, was approaching a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. He had little reason to question what was in his truck’s sealed container — he’d ...

EAST JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Wiyanti was crushed by exhaustion after spending noon until midnight trying to purge water and mud from her family’s home. It still wasn’t completely clean. Floodwaters more ...

LUBERO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — In February, Stino Muhindo Sivyaghendera lit a match and held it to the grass in the field of eucalyptus trees he’d planted three years earlier. In the months ...