Young, Syrian, Female: This is How You Fight ISIS's Values
Teaching peace—a week with volunteers on Syria's border.
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Teaching peace—a week with volunteers on Syria's border.
Under Deborah Lyons’s leadership, the Canadian Embassy in Kabul has been at the forefront of women's issues in the country.
A peek into Rwanda's tech revolution through the story of a 14-year-old Rwandan boy who taught himself to code in a MS-DOS system and is now partnering with Heineken.
Teenage pregnancy rates in the Dominican Republic are booming, and for many of the girls who live there it's about learning to become young mothers.
Photographer Yana Paskova, who grew up in communist Bulgaria, is attuned to the echoes and shadows of her own childhood in today's Cuba.
Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world's deadliest cities.
"I am convinced that, inshallah, he is a martyr," Umm Jihad says. I ask, then regret asking: How do you know?
Slate’s Behold blog interviews photographer Alice Proujansky on her photo essay about an immigrant nanny trying to move her son into the middle class.
Yana Paskova witnessed communist Bulgaria's transition to capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now, she chronicles Cuba's recent slow evolution, noting parallels to her own youth.
One year after ISIS swept into Yazidi villages, sparking an international outcry and escalating U.S. involvement in the war against the radical, Iraq’s Yazidi community is still in crisis.
Government supporters call her a "mercenary," but Arelys Blanco, 22, says she's only fighting for a free Cuba. "I'm a girl who has never agreed with the regime that's running this country."
Millions of Filipino children feel the absence of their migrant worker parents. In the past, the majority of Filipino migrant workers were men, but now most are women.