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June 16, 2026 Commentary

Belonging in Malawi Should Last Long After the Music Stops

During the June 12 launch of the joint report by Human Rights Watch and African Albinism Network on discrimination against people with albinism in employment, Malawi’s Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare dances with a young child with albinism as community members gather around them on the eve of International Albinism Awareness Day in Lilongwe.

June 12, 2026 Commentary

Soccer Fan and Angry at FIFA?

Five Things to Do When Watching the World Cup

US President Donald Trump is presented with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize award by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, January 9, 2026.

June 12, 2026 Commentary

People With Albinism Face Discrimination, Danger

Out of concern for her safety, Patricia J., avoids informal or unregulated workplaces such as markets and roadside stalls. “I have lingering trauma, still carrying the fear that at any moment I can be attacked again. I can’t shake the thought, especially when I’m in a new place.”

June 11, 2026 Commentary

Free Education Is Crucial to Combating Child Labor

Students seated at their desks in a classroom

June 9, 2026 Commentary

Why Pesticides Should be on the COP30 Agenda

A man sprays pesticides at a maize farm in Nakuru, Kenya, April 28, 2020. © 2020 Sipa via AP Images

June 9, 2026 Commentary

The World Is Worried About The World Cup

Infantino showing Trump a gold trophy

June 5, 2026 Commentary

World Environment Day: Zambia’s Mining Pollution Victims Need Justice

Figures' hands lay in the sand.

June 5, 2026 Commentary

Is Europe Failing on Free Speech?

Demonstrators hold a banner that reads "Protect the right to protest"

June 3, 2026 Commentary

AI Already Runs the Gig Economy

Governments at Labor Rights Meeting Should Protect Workers’ Rights

courier on bike

May 21, 2026 Commentary

Learning, Relearning and Sharing to Address Obstetric Violence

May 4, 2026 Commentary

Hungary’s Orbán Is Gone. Now the EU Unanimity Rule Should Go Too

April 30, 2026 Commentary

The Future of Atrocity Prevention: A Fight We Cannot Abandon

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, May 4, 2025.

April 29, 2026 Commentary

Arévalo’s Narrow Path to Change in Guatemala

Members of the Nominating Commission review the files of candidates for attorney general of the Republic and head of the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Palace of Justice in Guatemala City on April 17, 2026.

April 28, 2026 Commentary

A Deadline for the World to Act on Women’s Rights

Afghan girls attend a class after their school reopened in Kabul on March 23, 2022. Hours later, the Taliban ordered girls' secondary schools shut.

April 23, 2026 Commentary

Lack of Principled African Leadership, Action in Sudan

People pass through a destroyed section of Omdurman, Sudan on May 25, 2025.

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