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By Kasun Ubayasiri July 19 2013: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces no asylum seeker arriving by boat will be settled in Australia. March 29, 2017: 79 boats arrived in Australia between July 19, 2013, and July 27, 2014. Of the individuals on board, 1,596 were transferred to the Nauru Regional Processing Centre, 1,523 were transferred to...
By Siddhant Vashistha Amidst governmental failure and mismanagement in the current second wave of Covid-19, and beyond the lack of oxygen, hospital beds and drug shortages, India has a bigger problem – vaccination. India has vaccinated only 8% of its population. The free market farce India’s two major vaccine manufacturers have been unclear about...
Text by Abby Seiff - Photography by Nicolas Axelrod Feb. 17, 2020 - Kampong Luang, Cambodia. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom One morning, I pulled up a satellite map of Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake on my computer and clicked my way around it. The water was a milky brown and at various points I could spot its floating villages if I squinted and kept my eyes...
Story and Photography by Rhett Kleine By some accounts, the Koli bloodlines on the seven islands of Mumbai stretch as far back as the stone age. Their people fished the waters of Maharashtra long before Alexander’s armies reached the tip of India or Asoka’s empire swept across the subcontinent. Generation after generation, the Koli have...
By Shreya Kapoor India has a rich history of musical and poetic movements that were explicitly political and iconoclastic in nature. The Bhakti and Sufi movements with prominent figures like Kabirdas, Meerabai, Basavanna, Khwaja Mouinuddin Chisti, Nizam-ud-din Auliya, Rumi, etc spoke of alternative value systems inclusive of the marginalised...
By John Rodsted On a sultry Sunday afternoon, a group of people gathered in a public park for a BBQ. The BBQ was to raise money for charity. The day was hot and humid as they built a fire on the ground. The sky was threatening with rolling clouds, ominous signs of a possible tropical downpour. In the Solomon Islands you can almost set...
By Daniel Quinlan I couldn’t believe it when I read that Bangkok was sinking by as much as 1-2 cm a year. At first I assumed it was a misprint and they must have meant millimeters but the same figure appeared in other stories. Later I pitched it to an editor and did a short news video on it but I couldn’t get it out of my head. It seemed so...
By J.M Giordano I grew up in a lower middle class, white neighborhood and only attended community college. I saw Trump coming a mile away. What I didn't see coming was the sheer will of an almost unstoppable resistance to him and the racist and brutal policies that followed him - or, having already been weaved into the bloody fabric of American...
ICRC's Neil Davison from the Department of Law and Policy elaborates their view and work which has been done to understand limits needed on autonomy from humanitarian, ethical, legal and operational perspectives. The issue also takes a look at the diplomatic process and the 'cruch time' to agree on international limits.