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18/11/2025

If a person goes missing, you go to the police. But what if the police were involved?

More than 60.000 people have gone missing under the watch of governments in the last 40 years in at least 100 countries, according to the UN Report of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Only 2024 alone saw the largest spike in “enforced disappearances” in 20 years. Yet, despite these staggering numbers, most governments fail to conduct thorough searches, investigations, or prosecutions. Instead, it’s civic society that’s leading the search for answers and justice.

For our , our journalists Dil Afrose Jahan (Bangladesh) and Meredith Jackson (Uruguay) followed the social movements, piecing together the pieces and fighting for justice for the missing through different alliances with civic society. Our Multimedia Editor, Gabriela Ramirez, summarizes their work on this short video and explains how communities worldwide are uncovering the truth and demanding accountability.

You can read their full reports here:

Bangladesh: https://unbiasthenews.org/democracy-playbook-p/in-bangladesh-the-battle-cry-for-justice-comes-in-the-form-of-a-mothers-call/

Uruguay: https://unbiasthenews.org/democracy-playbook-p/mothers-on-a-mission-uruguays-movement-for-the-missing/

18/11/2025

🔎 Widening the scope: border security and the price children pay

In our latest story, journalist Ritwika Mitra talked to families and children in India´s border villages whose family members have suffered abuse at the hands of security forces. Beyond the immediate fear, stigma and insecure futures shape their lived realities. 💬

Backed with the reporting from Human Rights Watch on the use of force across the India-West Bengal border. 🚧 📄

What happens after the death, torture, or harassment of a family member? How can lives continue with dignity and hope?

💡 Children´s outlook on the future and their experiences are crucial in the conversation on borders and security.

➡️ Read more at unbiasthenews.org (link in bio)

This story was produced with support from the Moving Minds Alliance through the Reporters for Early Age Children in Crisis (REACH) Advocacy Stories Fund.

Illustration by Marie Schwab

08/11/2025

The world is coming to the Amazon — but who gets to define what “ready” looks like?

As COP30 lands in Belém, locals question whether the city must polish itself for the gringo’s gaze, or reclaim the right to be seen on its own terms.

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04/11/2025

From the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, France’s overseas territories are legally part of the Republic, but many of their citizens experience life as second-class. In this piece, our journalist follows the stories of “Ultramarins,” who face underinvestment, discrimination, and invisibility.

https://unbiasthenews.org/french-colonies-why-ultramarins-are-foreigners-in-their-own-country/

30/10/2025

🔍🎨 When art, science & law unite: the power of "beautiful resistance" In Goa, a diverse coalition of artists, scientists and legal advocates refused to stay silent as ancient forests were threatened by major infrastructure projects. The result: a visionary campaign that leveraged compelling visuals, rigorous science and strategic litigation to protect one of the world’s most precious ecosystems.

🌿 This story, from the Democracy Playbook, is a blueprint for citizen-led democratic power. It asks: how can we reshape advocacy when our tools go beyond petitions and into theatre, drone imagery, legal briefs and communal storytelling?

📖 Read the full piece here: A Beautiful Resistance: How Art, Science and Law Saved Goa’s Forests https://unbiasthenews.org/democracy-playbook-p/a-beautiful-resistance-how-art-science-and-law-saved-goas-forests/

28/10/2025

As climate change intensifies, not everyone feels the heat equally.
In Paris and Barcelona, residents of low-income neighborhoods live in homes that can be 20 degrees hotter than those in wealthier areas.

This investigation by our journalists Peter Yeung and Natalie Donback brings together data, community collaboration, and on-the-ground reporting to reveal how urban inequality shapes who suffers most from extreme heat and who gets protection.

With support from Journalismfund Europe and Seek Initiative

👉 Read the full story.: https://lnkd.in/eqaWz4WW

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15/10/2025

🎬 Calling all journalists and news creators!

This is an open call for creators who produce: 🎥 Compelling collaborative news or documentary in video and film format, or content for platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, X, Youtube Shorts or LinkedIn

✨ Applications are now open for the Hostwriter Creators Prize 2025! ✨

We’re celebrating creators who are reinventing how journalism is told: visually, creatively, and across borders from all over the world 🌍

👉 Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/dNPVysb

📣 Know someone who’s shaking up digital storytelling? Tag them or repost to spread the word!

14/10/2025

Migrant women in the UK face disproportionate barriers when it comes to maternal mental health care from language and cultural misunderstandings to systemic neglect within healthcare services.

In this in-depth report for Unbias the News, journalist Carlotta Dotto highlights how women like Shaheda Akhtar, who experienced postpartum psychosis, are turning personal adversity into collective advocacy.

Through grassroots initiatives, peer-led groups, and culturally informed care, migrant women are breaking the silence and isolation surrounding maternal mental health.

“The people who face the most barriers are often those who need our care the most – and yet their voices are not the ones we hear in maternity care.” — Amina Hatia, midwife

Read the full story here:
🔗 How migrant women in the UK are breaking the isolation around maternal mental health
https://unbiasthenews.org/how-migrant-women-in-the-uk-are-breaking-the-isolation-around-maternal-mental-health-ppd/

09/10/2025

What is feminist journalism and why does it matter? That’s the question Eliza Anyangwe, Editor-in-Chief of The Fuller Project, explores in their latest newsletter. We’re thrilled to see our Editor, Ankita Anand, featured alongside four other remarkable authors and journalists in this new edition.

Here’s what they had to say:

What is feminist journalism?

“Feminist journalism is an urgently-needed corrective to media ecosystems that have often failed to represent and include diverse communities. This is about what we publish, plus how we work and who makes decisions” - Claire Provost, investigative journalist and editor of The Feminist Investigative Journalism Handbook

“Feminist journalism is expansive. It’s a mixture of self-interrogation, systematic inquiry of power structures and surfacing of perspectives that are underrepresented in our respective environments” - Tan Hui Yee, deputy managing editor of nonprofit investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports

“Feminist journalism is journalism which decentres the otherwise prevalent focus on men in the news” - Luba Kassova, author of The Missing Perspectives of Women in News

Why does it matter?

“[Revealing] the connection between gender hierarchies, the violence and isolation faced even by those hoarding power can prove how badly we need a gender-just society” - Ankita Anand, editor with feminist cross-border newsroom, Unbias the News

“In today’s political climate, constantly reshaped by authoritarian resurgence and fascist rhetoric, it is vital for resisting erasure and distortion, and ensuring historical records remain inclusive, democratic, and reflective of society” - Kiki Mordi, investigative journalist and founder of Document Women

We can't recommend enough following The Fuller Media project and subscribing to their newsletter. You can do so here:

Five journalists on why news media needs a dose of feminism; explaining abortion access and meet Fuller’s editorial leadership team.

08/10/2025

If a person goes missing, you go to the police. But what if the police were involved?

More than 60.000 people have gone missing under the watch of governments in the last 40 years in at least 100 countries, according to the UN Report of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Only 2024 alone saw the largest spike in “enforced disappearances” in 20 years. Yet, despite these staggering numbers, most governments fail to conduct thorough searches, investigations, or prosecutions. Instead, it’s civic society that’s leading the search for answers and justice.

For our , our journalists Dil Afrose Jahan (Bangladesh) and Meredith Jackson (Uruguay) followed the social movements, piecing together the pieces and fighting for justice for the missing through different alliances with civic society. Our Multimedia Editor, Gabriela Ramirez, summarizes their work on this short video and explains how communities worldwide are uncovering the truth and demanding accountability.

You can read their full reports here:

Bangladesh: https://unbiasthenews.org/democracy-playbook-p/in-bangladesh-the-battle-cry-for-justice-comes-in-the-form-of-a-mothers-call/

Uruguay: https://unbiasthenews.org/democracy-playbook-p/mothers-on-a-mission-uruguays-movement-for-the-missing/

30/09/2025

"From pity – nothing. From dignity – everything."
This is not just a slogan. It’s the heartbeat of a migrant-led movement that changed Spanish labor law and continues to reshape how Europe values care work, migration, and collective resistance.

In a deeply reported piece for the Democracy Playbook, journalist Mayra Alejandra Margffoy Tuay traces the decades-long struggle of domestic and care workers in Spain — most of them migrant women — who organized through unions, street protests, tactical theater, and even strategic litigation at the European Court of Justice.

➡️ Their efforts led to the ratification of ILO Convention 189, legal reforms, and social security protections for more than half a million workers.
➡️ And yet, many of the movement’s founders — women with irregular status — remain excluded from the very rights they helped secure.

This is a story about dignity, grassroots power, and the need for justice that doesn’t leave the most vulnerable behind.

🔗 Read the full story here: https://unbiasthenews.org/democracy-playbook-p/from-pity-nothing-from-dignity-everything-how-domestic-and-care-workers-changed-spanish-labor-law/

Photo: Ela Rabasco (Ela R que R)/Territorio Doméstico ) / SEDOAC / Mayra Alejandra Margffoy Tuay

29/09/2025

Consent violated: how creators pay the price for stolen OnlyFans content
Up against a platform and police who seem to view abuse as inevitable, OnlyFans creators are fighting back against online harassers who gamify stealing and distributing their copyrighted material.

Written by Mayya Chernobylskaya, Kristina Böhmer, Polina Bachlakova, Apolena Rychlíková
Edited by Ankita Anand
Illustration by Marie Schwab

Up against a platform and police who seem to view abuse as inevitable, OnlyFans creators are fighting back against online harassers who gamify stealing and distributing their copyrighted material.