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"My daughter didn't recognise me": the impossible recovery for survivors of Chinese concentration camps. 

For the survivors of the Xinjiang concentration camps, leaving the camps is rarely a liberation; rather, it is often the start of a new ordeal. Now, they must learn to live again and navigate a life where their traumas are not recognised.

Proekt’s research has shown that the richest Russians - the so-called oligarchs - have received billions of dollars in defense contracts, producing, among other things, the weapons used to kill civilians in Ukrainian cities. But even knowing this, the oligarchs prefer to remain silent.

Oil fields in Iraq extract crude oil using water diverted from rivers. Their profits have multiplied since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. But the city of Basra has no water or electricity.

The European Union is militarizing Africa’s internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.

Children need tenderness, touch, affection, shelter and protection. But what about the elderly? This year, as never before, we have seen an alarming increase in media reports of acts of violence against the elderly, but nothing is being done. It's as if nothing shocks us anyone anymore. Have computer screens and social media led us to a kind of indifference and habituation rather than sensitivity towards the world?