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In Bangladesh, a mothers’ call for justice is finally being heard - Unbias The News For more than a decade, families have accused the Bangladeshi state of abducting their loved ones and tirelessly campaigned for justice. Now, a new administration is finally acknowledging their pain.

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More than 60.000 people have gone missing under the watch of governments in the last 40 years in at least 100 countries, according to the UN Report of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Only 2024 alone saw the largest spike in “enforced disappearances” in 20 years.

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In our latest feature, we follow Syrians like Thaer, Bushra, and Judy as they wrestle with the joy, fear, and heartbreak of returning to a country they thought they’d never see again—only to find their legal status, safety, and identities hanging in the balance. buff.ly/YV7A1FO...

Community in La Cañada Real: The women defending Spain’s biggest informal settlement - Unbias The News For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. Authorities are starving the community of basic infrastructure...

Estoy feliz, mi primera colaboración con @unbiasthenews.bsky.social es esta historia sobre #LaCañadaReal y el maravilloso activismo de Houda Akrikez y las mujeres marroquíes de la Asociación Tabadol, por unas condiciones de vida dignas y el derecho a la vivienda ♥️: unbiasthenews.org/community-in...

Community in La Cañada Real: The women defending Spain’s biggest informal settlement - Unbias The News For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. Authorities are starving the community of basic infrastructure...

I'm delighted, my first contribution to @unbiasthenews.bsky.social is this story about #LaCañadaReal and the remarkable activism of Houda Akrikez and Tabadol Women's Association to vindicate decent living conditions and the right to housing while they face evictions unbiasthenews.org/community-in...

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We are delighted to see our article "Widowed by Europe's Borders" by Gabriela Ramírez Ramirez and Tina Xu translated into Russian by Perito Media

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In the dry mountains of Morocco, rain is not just water. It's faith, politics, and survival. But when the skies opened in 2024 and 2025, the floods triggered whispers: “They’re playing with the clouds now.” Read this story written by Basma El Atti buff.ly/I9lV3oD...

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It will take 123 years to reach full gender parity globally, according to the World Economic Forum.

North America currently has the smallest gender gap worldwide, however Latin America and the Caribbean is the region that will close the gender gap the soonest, by 2082.

A Second Exile? Europe Weighs Deportations As Syrians Seek To Reconnect Since the Assad regime fell in December 2025, Europe’s 1.4 million Syrian refugees have been navigating the legal, emotional and security challenges of going back to a country they thought they may…

Since the Assad regime fell in December 2025, Europe’s 1.4 million Syrian refugees have been navigating the challenges of going back to a country they thought they may never see again. ✍️Marine Caleb for @unbiasthenews.bsky.social in EN via @worldcrunch.com

📢 After years of setbacks and repression, Turkey’s opposition mounted the most significant political comeback in decades — even as its most popular leader, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, was jailed.

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In our Chain Reactions series, Unbias The News and @pdaily_ explored the promise and pitfalls of climate solutions—and how Germany’s green transition created ripple effects worldwide. Dive into our stories to see how the future of energy is being shaped. unbiasthenews.org/chain-reacti...

In our latest feature, we follow Syrians like Thaer, Bushra, and Judy as they wrestle with the joy, fear, and heartbreak of returning to a country they thought they’d never see again—only to find their legal status, safety, and identities hanging in the balance. unbiasthenews.org/caught-betwe...

Mining for stories in Africa: when journalism becomes an extractive practice The story of Europe's underdevelopment of Africa echoes still in the pattern of exploitative practices practiced by Western media on the continent.

“500 years of resource extraction — now they’re mining our stories.” Namupa Shivute exposes how Western media still exploits African labour, knowledge & access — while erasing African storytellers from their own narratives. unbiasthenews.org/journalism-a...

In March 2025, Refugees in Libya compiled accounts of a fresh round of raids and arrests against hundreds of migrants in Western Libya, including reports of torture, extrajudicial killings, sexual assaults, mass arrests and detention.
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In the dry mountains of Morocco, rain is not just water. It's faith, politics, and survival. But when the skies opened in 2024 and 2025, the floods triggered whispers: “They’re playing with the clouds now.” Read this story written by Basma El Atti unbiasthenews.org/the-rainmake...

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Our Team´s highlight last week was bringing the Berlin community to life. We met up with old friends and fostered new connections. Community spaces are totally underrated - sometimes it´s conversations like these that make all the difference.

Roșia Montană (Romania) has been at the center of a decades-long fight against one of Europe’s largest planned gold mines. #DemocracyPlaybook

Written by Miriam Țepeș-Handaric
Illustration by Shari Avendaño

Photos: Miriam Țepeș-Handaric, Sorin Jurcă.

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#DemocracyPlaybook Story 🗣️✊

The story follows the rise of Refugees in Libya, a movement born in a slum and now confronting EU complicity in torture.

Written by Matilde Moro & Lucrezia Tiberio
Illustrated by Gaby Rueda

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🎥 What does objectivity in journalism really mean? What is bias in the media, and how is it perpetuated?

Our Co-Managing Director Mercy Abang challenges the myth of neutrality and dives into the importance of whose voices we center in our reporting in this powerful presentation.

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🗳️ The media has done well in exposing the authoritarian playbook.

But what about the resistance?

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