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05/08/2025

What happens when domestic violence meets bureaucratic barriers for migrant women?

Across Europe, migrant women face significant barriers when seeking help, from language obstacles to the threat of deportation when reporting abuse.

Despite international treaties, legal protections often fail those without the "right" papers. But in the face of institutional neglect, Latin American women are creating their own support systems.

Informal networks—formed in WhatsApp groups, art workshops, and hair salons—are offering safety, solidarity, and a path to justice.

📲 Swipe through key findings from the cross-border investigation
📖 Read the full report by Bien Acompañadas, Red LATAM Europa https://unbiasthenews.org/invisible-no-more-latinas-organize-against-gender-based-violence-in-europe/

Read in Spanish: https://bienacompanadas.org/

01/08/2025

What happens when domestic violence meets bureaucratic barriers for migrant women?

Across Europe, migrant women face significant barriers when seeking help, from language obstacles to the threat of deportation when reporting abuse.

Despite international treaties, legal protections often fail those without the "right" papers. But in the face of institutional neglect, Latin American women are creating their own support systems.

Informal networks—formed in WhatsApp groups, art workshops, and hair salons—are offering safety, solidarity, and a path to justice.

📖 Read the full report by Bien Acompañadas, Red LATAM Europa https://unbiasthenews.org/invisible-no-more-latinas-organize-against-gender-based-violence-in-europe/

Read in Spanish: https://bienacompanadas.org/

Most violence against women happens in the home. Women who are undocumented, whose migration status is insecure, or who face language barriers, are particularly vulnerable – and those employed as domestic workers may be at even greater risk in their employers’ homes than those living with a part...

31/07/2025

"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/

28/07/2025

What happens when your president promises freedom, but brands himself "the world's coolest dictator"? El Salvador’s mass incarceration plan under Bukele is being praised, exported, and copied. But at what cost?

▪️ Over 85,000 detained—many without charges or trial
▪️ CECOT, a mega-prison, houses thousands under extreme conditions
▪️ The U.S. State Dept. found evidence of torture, starvation, and deaths
▪️ Some U.S. politicians now want to import this model

Our journalist and columnist explores how El Salvador’s regime blends authoritarian control with digital hype. From Bitcoin to mass surveillance, creating what she calls a crypto-carceral state.

Why are far-right and tech elites—from Trump to Thiel—so drawn to it? Is El Salvador exporting safety or selling a blueprint for tech-powered authoritarianism? Check out our latest opinion piece for the Democracy Playbook. https://unbiasthenews.org/democracy-playbook-p/opinion-el-salvador-is-the-far-rights-dream-crypto-carceral-state-and-its-failing/

Opinion: El Salvador is the far-right’s dream crypto-carceral state – and it’s failing
Written by Lya Cuéllar
Illustration by Yorgos Konstantinou
Video: Gabriela Ramirez

25/07/2025

In the drought-stricken mountains and oases of Morocco, rain is not just water—it's faith, politics, and survival. But when the skies opened in 2024 and 2025, the floods brought more than water. They triggered whispers: “They’re playing with the clouds now.” Read this story written by
Basma El Atti, where cloud seeding, conspiracy, and climate change collide in a land where rain is a sacred sign.

Illustration by Dariana Guevara / AMWAJ

https://unbiasthenews.org/the-rainmakers-of-morocco/

This article was produced as part of the first edition of the AMWAJ Media Fellowship in 2025. The article was originally published in English by our friends AMWAJ

Morocco’s drought-flood chaos is fueling a storm of cloud seeding conspiracies.

22/07/2025

When war breaks down institutions, it’s not always bullets or headlines that show the damage — sometimes it’s the trash piling up in the streets.

In Bamenda, , the capital of the Anglophone Northwest region, uncollected garbage has become a symbol of a deeper crisis. What was once one of the cleanest cities in the country is now overwhelmed by waste, disease outbreaks, and failing infrastructure, all of which have been worsened by nearly a decade of armed conflict between separatists and the Cameroonian state.

In our new investigation, journalist Mboh Promise Nukapuh shows how the collapse of waste management is far more than a sanitation issue. It’s a public health emergency, an economic blow, and a manifestation of political instability that has gone largely ignored.

With voices from affected residents, overstretched waste workers, and grassroots organizers fighting back, the story offers a rarely seen lens into how conflict reshapes daily life —down to the air people breathe and the water they drink.

📖 Read the full story:
“Unsolved conflict and uncollected trash: In Bamenda, Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis is spilling onto the streets”

https://unbiasthenews.org/unsolved-conflict-and-uncollected-trash-in-bamenda-cameroons-anglophone-crisis-is-spilling-onto-the-streets/

21/07/2025

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16/07/2025

What made you think differently about democracy? 📚🎬🎧 From books to podcasts to films. We want to know what has inspired you to think differently about the idea of democracy, or what got you inspired to fight for your own. We will share responses in an upcoming article for our . Fill out the form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerHwT0ieZaWTvyGmyAhlZryqNcN-v6cX3UlC2Ytk3TQjShzA/viewform

14/07/2025

A powerful, migrant-led movement of domestic and care workers in Spain used tactical theater, legal strategy, and grassroots organizing to change the law and the narrative.

📢 “Without us, the world stops.”
In 2022, after a decade-long campaign, they won historic legal reforms. But for many, this is about more than rights. It’s about recognition, pride, and agency.

From metro stations to Congress galleries, from flash mobs to EU courts — this is how women who care for society fought for their own dignity.

📖 Read the full story on our Democracy Playbook by Mayra Alejandra Margffoy Tuay
🎨 Illustrated by Nikita Deshpande
📝 Edited by Ruby Russell

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

11/07/2025

In Bamenda, the capital of Northwest Cameroon, a physical reminder of the Anglophone Crisis is visible on the streets: uncollected trash. Residents must navigate sights and smells that deter business, threaten their health, and increase the risks of environmental damage. But some are fighting back.

09/07/2025

More votes, fewer rights? While billions went to the polls last year, democracy reached its lowest point in global decline. What’s going on? We dig into it in our latest newsletter.

At Unbias the News, we’ve been following the stories that most outlets miss—grassroots resistance and the people fighting to build real democracy from the ground up.

📩 Read our latest issue and subscribe to our newsletter to get sharp, global reporting straight to your inbox: https://unbiasthenews.org/authoritarianism-is-spreading-so-is-the-fight-against-it/

08/07/2025

In the Philippines, archivists fight to preserve evidence of the country’s bloodied past, in hope that it will provide lessons for the future.