Conflict & Justice
Our stories in this section range from war to peace and fairness to freedom across the globe
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
November 21, 2016
He's a stateless migrant who is now the proud owner of the first ID card he's ever been issued. But it doesn't guarantee him anything more than the chance to have his asylum case heard.
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GlobalPost
November 20, 2016
In order to escape, residents have to negotiate their way through a hail of sniper fire, mortars and airstrikes.
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Agence France-Presse
November 20, 2016
Fresh fighting shook Syria's Aleppo on Sunday with a rebel attack killing at least eight children at a school, as the UN's envoy struggled to push peace efforts in Damascus.
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PRI's The World
November 18, 2016
That is how Turkish President Recep Erdogan has described a radical policy to fire or arrest anyone suspected of supporting an attempted coup against his government this summer.
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PRI's The World
November 18, 2016
Mike Pompeo, a Tea Party hawk chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, also opposes the Iran deal and efforts to close Guantanamo.
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GlobalPost
November 18, 2016
Muhammad lived in Mosul when the Islamic State took control. Now in a camp for displaced people, he lives to tell the story.
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America Abroad
November 17, 2016
Over the next five years, the CDC is investing more than $2 billion to prepare itself, developing countries and state and local health departments to be able to respond to health emergencies.
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
November 17, 2016
Hundreds of Yazidi women are believed to be held captive by ISIS in Mosul. But when ISIS leaves Iraq's second largest city, will the women still be there?
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Iceland grieves after police shoot and kill a man for the first time in its history
PRI's The World
December 03, 2013
Updated
Iceland made history this week, but not in a good way. For the first time since the nation became an independent republic, armed police shot and killed a man, startling a population accustomed to peace.
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Update: Indiana sentences Purvi Patel to decades in prison for what she says was a miscarriage
PRI's The World
March 13, 2015
Updated
Purvi Patel is the second pregnant woman in Indiana to be charged under the state's law against "feticide," a law originally passed to protect pregnant women from harm. Patel was sentenced Monday to face up to 20 years in prison, in a case has alarmed advocates for women and immigrants.
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There's a long story behind 'anti-Haitianismo' in the Dominican Republic
PRI's The World
November 14, 2013
Tens of thousands of people in the Dominican Republic are being stripped of their citizenship and deported. And most are of Haitian descent. It's the latest chapter in a long history of 'anti-Haitianismo' in the Dominican Republic.
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Some Black Lives Matter activists plan not to vote in November
PRI's The World
July 20, 2016
Hawk Newsome cares deeply about America's presidential election. But one thing the activist says he won't be doing in November is voting. For anyone.
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One girl's controversial adoption, and what it says about Guatemala's broken international adoption system
PRI's The World
January 08, 2015
Guatemala halted international adoptions years ago, because the process had become so corrupted. But there are still a lot of unanswered questions about adoptions that went through in the past, and about one highly controversial case in particular.
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101-year-old Armenian genocide survivor tells her story
To the Point
April 27, 2015
Even at 101, Yevnige Salibian remembers clearly the shouts and separation of Armenians in what was the first genocide of the 20th century. For her and much of L.A.'s Armenian community, the largest in the United States, a traumatic past is not even past.
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White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States
GlobalPost
June 24, 2015
Since Sept. 11, 2001, it is white supremacists and other right-wing groups that account for the majority of terrorist attacks on US soil, a new report finds.
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A massive US weapons deal with Israel means more weapons for its Arab neighbors, too
PRI's The World
September 22, 2016
Updated
The US has approved the biggest arms deal in history: a $38 billion agreement to supply Israel with jets, bombs, missiles and military support for the next 10 years. And now that the paper is signed, look for arms deals with Israel's Arab neighbors to proceed.
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What if your hometown were hit by the Hiroshima atomic bomb?
PRI's The World
August 04, 2015
Updated
This app simulates the damage of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 70 years ago on another location, such as your hometown.
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England abolished grand juries decades ago because they didn't work
PRI's The World
December 04, 2014
Grand juries decided not indict the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The decision enraged many Americans, who questioned why the incidents didn't deserve an open trial — exactly the reason why the UK, the originator of grand juries, abolished its own system long ago.