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After his semester-long experience, he wants to utilise his position as vice president of the student council to create a band at his school so more of his peers can share in the experience. Described as a “virtual exchange programme for high school students from Jordan, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, and the United States,” Peace Tracks works as a blend of synchronous and asynchronous learning. Since 2021, Peace Tracks has grown to connect students from across the US and globa...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
“When we used to fall sick, we relied on the forest. Plants, trees, their roots – they healed us. We still try, but we can’t find them anymore,” Rukmini Saura (36) told FairPlanet, before listing the plants they once gathered with ease: “Amla, bahada, harada – that’s Triphala. Rangachera for stomach gas, Kundichali for fever.” The Saura Adivasis, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), are one of the ancient tribes of Odisha. The community consisted of food gatherers wh...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
Enemies of the state Kichwa Panzaleco human rights defender Leonidas Iza is on trial for allegedly kidnapping Ecuadorian police officers. On September 3, he appeared in court for a hearing that revealed a state surveillance program including three undercover officers spying on him and the Andean community of San Ignacio. The spies were detained for three days according to Indigenous law, which is recognised in Ecuador’s constitution. As former president of CONAIE, Ecuador’s largest Indi...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
Across India, Bengali-speaking Muslims are being rounded up, detained, and pushed out in a sweeping crackdown.| FairPlanet
The police brutality at the Indonesian football match points to the underlying culture of abuse of power.| FairPlanet
Kunar, one of Afghanistan’s most impoverished provinces bordering Pakistan, was struck by a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on Sunday, August 31, just before midnight. The tremor tore through the mountainous region’s dense forests and fragile mud-stone homes, leaving behind a staggering loss of human lives: the UN reports that at least 2,200 people died, with more than 4,000 injured and over 8,000 homes reduced to rubble. The Taliban’s deputy spokesman, Hamdullah Fitrat, ...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
Here, in one of Indonesia’s oldest national parks, the team from the rehabilitation centre, Yayasan Alam Inisiatif Rehabilitasi Indonesia (YIARI), carefully dons masks to protect the vulnerable slow lorises from human germs, a compassionate and committed step in caring for the animal’s welfare. A vulnerable primate The Javan slow loris is a charming yet critically endangered creature. Its vulnerability to hunting and illegal trade makes rehabilitation a tough challenge. This nocturnal p...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
This article contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. Long on the margins of South America’s shipping hubs, the industrial city of Buenaventura on Colombia’s Pacific coast is seeing massive changes. Port expansion is ushering in a new era of maritime trade. Nearly 700 square kilometres are destined for new shipping infrastructure, including a liquefied gas port and expanded container storage. President Gustavo Petro’s vision for an 850-kilometre-long Pacific ...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
The first tree Ahmed Abu Mariam planted was for his daughter. The soil was dry that year, cracked from war and the weight of grief, but he dug deep anyway, not just for roots, but for hope. “I asked God to help me plant more,” he said. “Not one or two. Millions.” The silence of the hills above Latakia, once carpeted with dense forests of cedar and aromatic bay laurel, today is louder than the wind. Birds that once called this place home are often gone. Fires have scorched the undergro...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
Indonesia is reeling from a week of unrest as protests spread across major cities, fuelled by public anger over the authorities.| FairPlanet
Advocating for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers is becoming harder in the southern African nation.| FairPlanet
This article contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. “Even if in Congo there is insecurity, they die with bullets instead of dying with hunger,” said Jean-Marie Nibitanga in early August, speaking about people who fled the war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Ugandan refugee settlement of Kyangwali. This is where he works in community-based rehabilitation with Humanity & Inclusion (HI). “Some are planning to go back,” he added. Fi...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
As UNHCR funding dries up, services at Malawi’s largest refugee camp are collapsing, with 56,000 people in worsening conditions fearing the future.| FairPlanet
*The names of the people in the article have been changed to protect their identities. The dry pops of shotgun fire echo off nearby trees among the metallic clanking of people reloading their guns. The smell of BBQ mixes with dirt and pine tree sap. Near the entrance of the shooting range, a white sign reads ‘armed queers don’t get bashed’ with a 2-D illustration of a person aiming a gun inside of a pink triangle above the name Pink Pistols. (image) The sign and logo of the Pink Pis...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
During Oslo’s annual International Women’s Day march in March 2024, roughly 50 Norwegian Jewish women were physically prevented, at times violently, from joining the parade. The group had secured prior agreement with organisers to participate, but were blocked and told to leave after carrying signs condemning sexual violence against Israeli women during the Hamas-led 7 October attacks and calling for the release of Israeli hostages. The police did eventually interfere and pushed back the ...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
“I have invested more than INR 30,000 (€296) from the day of tilling till date. Spending [that amount] without any return hurts deeply. It feels like I have invested wrongly,” Ganie told FairPlanet. “We are just hoping for rain because if it does not come, we will be left with nothing.” For generations, rice farming has remained a staple diet in India’s Kashmir region. The area’s lush paddy fields have not only supported the livelihoods of farmers but have also shaped rural iden...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
The 39-year-old then checks for possible orders of seedlings of the traditional African spice, Pébé, and avocado from farmers across the country. “I consult the platform thrice a day,” he told Fair Planet. “Thanks to the platform, I recently sold 2,000 avocado seedlings to a farmer. It eases the job of finding customers.” Kamdem’s tree nursery contains roughly 20,000 avocado and 8,000 Pébé seedlings. My Farm Trees is a digital platform that connects seed producers like Kamdem ...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
With 28,000 annual mortalities, the Central Mediterranean constitutes the most dangerous migration route in the world.| FairPlanet
In the past year, Asia and the Pacific has faced intensifying climate pressures, from extreme heat in Bangladesh and India to devastating floods in northern Thailand and rising food insecurity across the Pacific. But these are just the most visible signs. Beneath the surface, increasing temperatures, shifting rainfall and rising sea levels are quietly eroding fiscal space, distorting prices of goods and services and weakening long-term economic resilience. Climate risks, both sudden and slow,...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
Displayed on stalls in the herbs section of Harare’s main farmers’ market in Mbare is anything from animal skins, skulls, bones, claws, dung, furs, scales, fat and various other paraphernalia. As they try to lure customers, the stallholders claim they have something for any condition, from backache to erectile dysfunction to cancer, HIV/Aids and everything in-between. They also claim they can make people rich, powerful, feared, lucky or anything humans may desire to be. This scene can b...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
The western-central Indian state of Maharashtra is currently experiencing a shortage of vital fertilisers, particularly Diammonium Phosphate (DAP), as the Kharif (monsoon) sowing season begins. Long lines outside fertiliser stores, empty shelves, and black-market premiums have become the new normal for many rural households who rely on agriculture. An unexpected trigger When Israel launched surprise attacks on key military and nuclear facilities in Iran on 13 June 2025, no one expected the fa...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
This article contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. The past months have seen an exodus of European countries from a long-standing international law prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines. Signed in Ottawa in 1997, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa Convention) outlaws landmines as indiscriminate weapons. Not a party to the Ottawa Convention, the Russian military’s use of landmines in Ukraine has intensified since the full-scale invasion in 2022. T...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
Caught in a standoff between India and Pakistan, jailed fishermen and their families face growing despair.| FairPlanet
A Peruvian woman, from the village of Aucaya, who works in a shop in Iquitos and prefers to remain anonymous out of sensitivity, told FairPlanet about her fears. “The river is rising a lot, we feel in danger,” she explained from the Boulevard Joaquim Abensur, overlooking the Itaya River, a direct tributary of the Amazon River. (image) The Amazon River at dawn from the Iquitos-Santa Rosa boat, April 2025. In April, the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (SENAMHI) raised an al...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
FairPlanet spoke to Mehdi, one of the few elected representatives openly challenging not just the BJP’s Hindu nationalist agenda, but also the shifting stance of his own party, the National Conference. A sitting MP from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and a critic of Prime Minister Modi, Mehdi confronts what he calls an “ideological assault” on India’s secular foundations and refuses to let Kashmir’s political identity be rewritten in silence. In this wide-ranging conversation, Mehdi speaks...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
For more than 30 years, Action Against Hunger has served communities across South Sudan, and they know when they come to our locations, they’ll get treatment. Mothers walk for hours through dangerous terrain, carrying malnourished children who desperately need our help. They trust us. They’ve learned to depend on us. But now, for the first time in decades, we have no answers for them. The closure of USAID on1 July has shattered that lifeline that kept thousands of South Sudanese childre...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
Mounds of plastic waste are clearly visible in the middle of residential areas in Indonesia’s Gedangrowo Village, Sidoarjo Regency. One of the largest dumpsites for imported waste of East Java, approximately an 11-hour drive away from Jakarta. Some of the trash appears dried, with brand labels unfamiliar to Indonesians, an indication that the waste originated overseas. (image) Foreign plastic packaging products are pictured at an import plastic waste dump in Sumberejo village, Malang Rege...| FEED / https://www.fairplanet.org
Burning fossil fuels and deforestation are the primary causes of climate change. But what are the biggest human causes of climate change?| FairPlanet
After a massacre killed 26 tourists, Kashmir’s hopes for peace collapsed -triggering economic freefall, crackdowns, and renewed India–Pakistan tensions.| FairPlanet
In the shadow of volatile diplomacy, Indian and Pakistani fishermen vanish into foreign prisons while their families wait in silence.| FairPlanet
