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Selahattin Demirtaş led the Kurdish political movement to a record finish in Turkish elections just three years ago. Now, the former human rights lawyer reaches voters from behind bars with Twitter posts and campaign rallies staged during his weekly 10-minute phone allowance to his wife.
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PRI's The WorldThe Beatles' "Drive My Car" arranged by cellist Naseem Alatrash featuring vocalist Nano Raies. The interpretation is being released on the weekend Saudi Arabia lifts the ban on women driving. The group was given the name Nano and the 6-2-4 to reference the date Saudi women receive the right to drive.
This project was done in collaboration with the Berklee College of Music.
“Drive My Car" (John Lennon and Paul McCartney)
“Climate change has all the hallmarks of an issue which is difficult for people to engage with psychologically,” says an environmental psychologist.
We’re answering some of your most pressing questions about what happens next.
Europe and the US say wood pellets are a carbon neutral alternative to coal. Many experts say otherwise.
Surrogacy is a multimillion-dollar, global industry.
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Across Women's LivesLaunched 14 years ago in Mumbai by three trans women — Abhina Aher, Urmi Jadhav and Madhuri Sarode — the ensemble now has 30 members.
Surrogacy is a multimillion-dollar, global industry.
Popular TV celebrities continue to boast on air that they either didn’t like math or struggled with it. Sally Ride Science helps to combat misconceptions and dispel myths by bringing practicing scientists and engineers directly to the students.
My Red Light in Amsterdam is almost entirely run by former or current sex workers. And it's designed to ensure that those who rent rooms there aren't being trafficked or exploited. But some maintain that the work itself is inherently exploitative.
Today, the group has 61 members — women who are HIV-positive, widows, single mothers, women who face domestic abuse, former abductees who lost their limbs or still live with bullet wounds and women whose children were abducted during the conflict, with some of them never returning.
Global NationThe court ruling in question says if migrant children are detained, it should be short and in facilities that are more like childcare facilities than prisons.
Three toddlers’ foster mothers brought the children to the emergency department. Dr. Tara Neubrand, who specializes in pediatric emergency medicine, says their trauma was obvious.
We’re answering some of your most pressing questions about what happens next.
Beth Lew-Williams’ grandfather was 9 when he was separated from family and placed in immigration detention. And he held the pain of the experience for 72 years.
It has become a hot-button topic in American politics. But beyond the numbers of children being separated from their parents at the border are very real, long-term effects from toxic stress, one expert says.
Since 2003, the US Health and Human Services Department has awarded nearly $5 billion in grants through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, mostly to religious and nonprofit organizations in 18 states, to house children who arrive in the country unaccompanied. The program grew quickly in 2014, when around 70,000 children crossed the southern border alone.
As inflation continues to spiral higher in Argentina, hungry people are increasingly turning to food banks for help. Lawmakers are considering a food emergency bill that would support soup kitchens.
It has become a hot-button topic in American politics. But beyond the numbers of children being separated from their parents at the border are very real, long-term effects from toxic stress, one expert says.
As Congress prepares to debate separating families at the border, a look back at the United States' past with a practice critics call cruel.
In Zimbabwe, funerals matter, but money is tight. With little spare income, many Zimbabweans are facing a tough choice: insure their health or insure their funerals?
Global SecurityThe terrorist group al-Shabab has conscripted children throughout its decade-long insurgency in Somalia, but it escalated its campaign of forcibly recruiting child soldiers in mid-2017.
Inside the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemenis hear explosions — large ones from Saudi-led coalition airstrikes and smaller booms from local fighters' rocket-propelled grenades. As the battle moves closer to the city, we hear from residents, humanitarian organizations and the UAE ambassador to the US.
We'd like hear what you know, fear most and want to learn about nuclear weapons.
As Russia hosts the 2018 World Cup, it's being condemned for many of the same human rights abuses it was criticized for in the lead-up to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Now, President Vladimir Putin seems much more resistant to Western criticism.
Is a semblance of security worth the taxes that villagers are compelled to give the Mai Mai Mazembe armed group? Some in Miriki say yes, while many others have deserted their homes and left the region, at risk of going hungry.
