The Majority World Blog

The US has a legal duty to protect Iranian dissidents under attack, says Moussa Zabeti, who has eight family members living there.

Iris Gonzales attended a workshop for journalists, in which media workers discussed reporting murder and forced disappearances in the Philippines.

Mari Marcel Thekaekara reports from two states in India where girls have disappeared.

Food shortages are expected in Sierra Leone, due to the ban on cross-border trade.

Witnessing a murder in the street, Maya Prabhu regrets that in the absence of a reliable judicial system, ordinary Ugandans are taking the law into their own hands.

Sokari Ekine reviews In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story – a story of displacement and loss, a yearning for that place in one’s mind that can never be reclaimed.

Why is the US so keen to intervene in oil-rich countries but happy to turn a blind eye to what’s going on in Africa?

Yesterday was Palestinian Land Day, or Yom el-Ard. N takes us on a very personal trip through the land of Palestine.

Mari Marcel Thekaekara says that a few centuries from now, if civilization as we know it still exists, history will judge us harshly. Will we ever learn?

The limits of control on social media: fake privacy, new spyware, widespread manipulation and power of the powerful.   

A story of mining, environmental destruction, the death of a Filipino journalist and the fight that is still on.