The conflict in Kashmir dates back to October 1947 to the birth of the two modern nations of India and Pakistan.  The conflict of whether this mountainous region is to be governed from New Delhi or Islamabad has cost tens of thousands of human lives, and continues to be the main source of negative relations [...]

You better hold on, something’s happening here.
You better hold on, meet you in Tompkins Square.
— Lou Reed, Hold On (1989)
Tompkins Square Park is about the resistance and struggle of people in the Lower East Side, literally to exist as the community faced drastic gentrification in the late 1980s and mid-1990s. This story focuses [...]

A tragic story that never ends. The war in DR Congo is the most deadly conflict to have taken place anywhere on earth since World War II. Bewildering in its complexity, the war officially came to an end in 2003. And yet the killing goes on. At the beginning of 2008, as a ceasefire was [...]

Since March 10th 2008, Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, has witnessed a series of anti-Chinese protests from the substantial community of Tibetan exiles living here. The protests have repeatedly been condemned by Nepalese government officials, without regard to human rights such as freedom of expression and a Nepal Supreme Court verdict stating that “chanting slogans does not [...]