"It’s just like a prison, but worse,” says Omar. “You don’t know when you’ll be out. You can’t do anything all day. You don’t even have your personal room. You feel crushed.” The post Prison of papers: As Netherlands ramps ups detentions, undocumented immigrants speak out appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

Before industrialized farming conquered the continent, the crops that fed Europe were adaptable varieties that evolved as peasants freely exchanged seeds, from harvest to sowing, generation after generation. Reviving these seed systems could protect our food supply from future climate shocks – if EU regulations don’t strangle them out completely. The post Seeds of resistance: The fight to preserve Europe’s peasant seeds appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

College-educated migrants arriving in Italy face one of the harshest job markets in Europe. Compared to natives with similar qualifications, migrants are overqualified, underpaid, and underemployed. As a doctor from Venezuela learned, landing steady employment even in a field with shortages can be a long struggle. The post Blocked at every turn: Why migrants in Italy face one of Europe’s worst brain waste gaps appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

High language requirements, a one-size integration policy, and discrimination. Despite the need for labour, landing a job in Sweden has become a hurdle race for college-educated migrants, a new joint investigation with Lighthouse Reports shows. The post Sweden’s brain waste problem:  how the social welfare state locks migrant professionals out of the workforce appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

What tactics and strategies work to defend democracy from elite capture? How do people build movements to protect institutions, the environment, and each other from authoritarianism? What are the strategic, cultural, emotional resources possessed by the majority that can counter the way of authoritarianism? The post Why we are launching the Democracy Playbook appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

Despite legal prohibitions, several African countries continue to suffer high rates of child marriage. Now, tribal leaders are teaming up with civil society, taking as many routes as necessary to find solutions. The post How indigenous chiefs are fighting child marriage in Africa appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

It was already dark when Samrin was left alone in the woods. He had no backpack, sleeping bag, or food. His phone was running out of battery. The next morning, Samrin came online briefly to send Sanooja a final message on WhatsApp: “No water, I think I’ll die. Trangam, I love you.” The post Widowed by Europe’s borders appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

From 2013 to the present, Refaat has searched everywhere for their children. For ten years he has been traveling, asking, and searching. He has even appeared on TV hoping one day to be reunited with them. But to this day he still does not know if his children were saved or if they are two of the 268 victims of the October 11, 2013 shipwreck, one of the worst Mediterranean disasters in the last three decades. The post Missing data, missing souls in Italy appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

“My wish is that even 100 years from now these graves stand as monuments of the EU's shame. Because it was not the river that killed these people, but the EU border regime." The post Unmarked monuments of EU’s shame in Croatia and Bosnia appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more

No one ever comes to visit, but on days when there are funerals here and flowers are about to be thrown out, I place them on the tombs containing the unknown migrants,” he explains. “In some of the older graves, you have the remains of up to five or six migrants together, each placed in separate sacks within the same niche to save space.” The post Counting the invisible victims of Spain’s EU borders appeared first on Unbias The News ..read more