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What Do We Owe the Dead?
How international human rights law fails to recognize the rights of the dead.
Under Supervision
Transgender people in China — no matter their age — require parental consent to transition.
Can a Comma Solve a Crime?
How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.
Can Colombia End the War on Drugs?
President Gustavo Petro has made it a priority to transform the narcotics trade. The question now is how.
Nowhere to Hide
Over the last decade, Tajikistan’s security service has waged a campaign to kill, jail and exile dissenters — even from abroad.
Documenting the Dark Side of International Adoptions
A conversation with Rachel Nolan, whose reporting on illegal adoptions in Guatemala — and the decades-long fight for justice — was published in our Sex issue.
England’s New Surveillance Regime Over Reproductive Rights
In Britain, phone data is being used to prosecute women who seek abortions.
Searching for Anyelí
In Guatemala, mothers fight for their trafficked and illegally adopted children.
Reckoning with Denmark’s Cruel Birth Control Campaign
For nearly a decade, the Danish government sought to control Greenland’s population by implanting IUD devices in Inuit girls, often without their consent.
The Failure of International Law
A conversation with legal scholar Itamar Mann about the war in Israel and Palestine.
The Gun Show Cowboy Crackdown
Mexico is suing U.S. gun manufacturers for fueling violence in its territory.
The Aftermath of a Drug War
A conversation with Bryony Lau, whose investigative reporting on posthumous justice for victims of Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs was published in our Drugs issue.
The Courtroom in Caloocan
Survivors of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war are seeking justice for their slaughtered relatives.
Riding the Train With the KlimaSeniorinnen
The group of older Swiss women fighting against heat waves.
The Law of the Sea
Down in the deep, the legal distinction between land and sea no longer holds.
The Trial of Poland’s “Abortion Dream Team”
Polish activist Justyna Wydrzyńska faces up to three years in prison for providing abortion pills to a pregnant woman.
How to Overturn an Abortion Ban
A conversation with three women—a doctor, a former senator, and an activist—who led the fight to abolish Argentina's restrictive reproductive rights laws.