OAXACA DE JUÁREZ, MEXICO — Dawn lights up shards of glass along the downtown streets of Oaxaca de Juárez — vestiges of the broken windows of cars that had been parked there during the night. One ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — For years, this country’s capital city has discharged sewage into its main water supply. Then, the city started charging to purify the water — a cost that locals say eats as much as ...

KATHMANDU, NEPAL — Outside the imposing Supreme Court building, Bharati Sherpa draws a shaky breath. She went on a hunger strike because the man convicted of killing her husband — a former Nepali ...

The Dharavi neighborhood in Mumbai — Asia’s largest informal settlement — is located on prime real estate. Many people who live there now are under pressure to relocate to an area near a toxic ...

PARSA DISTRICT, BIRGUNJ, NEPAL — Samsad Ali was at his grocery shop in April on the day of Hanuman Jayanti, a Hindu festival that celebrates Lord Hanuman, a central figure in the Sanskrit epic ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Tapiwa Gumbo, a 25-year-old unemployed university graduate from Harare, does not plan to vote in Zimbabwe’s elections, which will be held sometime between July and August this year, ...

Fishermen bemoan dwindling catches as contamination by industrial waste and other pollutants raises concerns about the safety of food and drinking water. NORTON, ZIMBABWE — Paul Majoni stares at the ...

Providing sexual and gender minorities with secure places to live has become more fraught since the passage of an anti-homosexuality law. WAKISO, UGANDA — In 2021, John Grace’s father gave him an ...

A requirement for nursing students guarantees low pay, and a risk that their diplomas will be withheld. HARARE, ZIMBABWE and LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — At a nursing school in Zambia, many of the students aren’t ...

CUAUHTÉMOC, MEXICO — Since the early 1980s, farmer Carlos Pérez has relied on a hail cannon to protect the apple orchards that have been in his family for three generations. Perched on a corrugated ...

The strictest of the growing Apostolic Church sects in Zimbabwe require members to seek healing via prayer and faith and completely reject conventional medicine, and this trend has likely contributed ...

DHAKA, BANGLADESH — Early this year, dozens of men stormed the gate of a safe house for third-gender people. Among the attackers were people who used to sympathize with the community, says Babuni, who ...