In 2020, when the protests in Belarus started, the primary form of punishment for casual demonstrators was 15-day isolation in custody. The characters of that story are people who first met in a prison cell - they were to spend there next two weeks or a month after being arrested by the police in November 2020, when regime forces began to suppress protests with greater strength.

Lebanon, Dubai, Turkey, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Germany... Belarus has been accused of issuing tourist visas to migrants and helping them to enter Europe. How is the complete journey of migrants arriving from the Middle East to Europe via Minsk? Which role does the Belarus government play in it? What reasons force these individuals and families, including children, to embark on such a dangerous trip?

Sri Lanka records the highest number of elephant deaths in the world. It became an alarming conservation concern in the island that involved 121 people and 407 elephants killed in 2019 and 318 elephants and 112 people killed in 2020 despite COVID-19 lockdown. Meet the Sri Lankans who are helping to reduce hostilities with jumbos using GPS collars, electric fences, handmade gadgets and alternative cropping.

The Story of a Refugee Family who Fled the Syrian War to War-Torn Nagorno-Karabakh

The COVID-19 arrived in Brazil through the upper class but has spread like wildfire throughout the poorest communities. This is the story of the grassroots initiatives that were launched by the residents of three favelas in São Paulo to face the problems caused or exacerbated by the pandemic.

In October 2019, Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders for sedition over their role in the independence referendum. We spoke with protesters in Barcelona, lawyers and other people involved.

A visual journey through the iconic cases of biopiracy in Sri lanka. The article also explores four successful cases fighting biopiracy in India, Peru, Ethiopia and Brazil.

Inside a hospital in Zimbabwe where patients who can’t afford their bills are detained in hospitals.

In 2017, China stopped the import of waste from foreign countries. This is what happened next.

Even though it is a vaccine-preventable disease, measles kills over 100,000 people every year. Worldwide cases tripled in the first three months of 2019.

May 2019 marked the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the government. Outriders have gone through the 26 years conflict in the paradisiacal island where the suicide belt was invented.

After Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, Putin ordered to build a bridge connecting the peninsula and Russia. Here’s a panorama of what happened next.

A trip through the history of the natural and mineral-rich French territory in the South Pacific.

450 kilometres of demarcation line in Donbas means 450 km of war, which has divided the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts into two parts since 2014.

"The Luggage" is a feature telling about cities and countries which, facing huge tourist traffic, have decided to take steps to limit and regulate the inflow of visitors. We present the ways of dealing with the negative impact of tourism on the lives of inhabitants in an interactive reportage which was made according to the principles of solution journalism.

Gorani, Slavic Muslims. It is an ethnic minority living on the border of Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia.

About 700 million people in 43 countries suffer from water scarcity today. Even big modern cities such as Barcelona and London have problems with water supply. This story is about places where the struggle for access to clean water is the cause of social unrest and an element of international conflicts.

11.2% of the world's population dies because of pollution. More than 90% inhale air of poor quality. "Deep Breath" is an interactive report on the global smog problem which many countries are unable or unwilling to deal with.