Thirteen-year-old Anucha Tasako died last November in a boxing ring in a suburb of Bangkok. Like many Thai children, Tasako was a Muay Thai boxer, the favourite sport in a country where the debate on the protection of minors has only just [...]

“Newroz is proof that we exist. The festival is about Kurdish resistance and it reminds Kurds of our historical struggles.”

Activists from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, amongst others, are calling for an end to educating schoolchildren with texts that portray women as subordinate and LGBTI people as abnormal.

Our relationships are freer, more independent, but also – as the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman warned – more fragile. It was he who coined the phrase “liquid love” to refer to those increasingly brief and superficial encounters characterising modern [...]

As we consume greater quantities of information, our ability to sift through and retain it is diminishing. Our growing impatience makes us easy targets for manipulation.

Votes such as the Brexit referendum or the presidential elections in the US and Brazil have underscored the urgency of stepping up the fight against disinformation. Fact-checking platforms are faced with an arduous task, from which journalists cannot be [...]