Planeta Futuro

Hamada has five children and lives in Nigeria with HIV. Her husband and her father threw her out of the house when they learned about her illness and the fact that she had warned the second wife about the illness. When the United States halted the antiretroviral program that had allowed her to access her medication, she fell into despair

Tamanna lives in Afghanistan, the only country in the world where half of the population — women — are forbidden from almost everything: they cannot work, study, or take part in public life. Her life was upended when one of the very few job opportunities available to her — working for an NGO — disappeared due to funding cuts

Carmen Elena is a Colombian woman whose life was upended by the violence that took the lives of her husband and her brother. Her plan to build a village that would offer a safe haven for mothers trying to keep their children from being recruited by armed groups collapsed when USAID shut down

The world is rearming and humanitarian aid is collapsing. Tamanna, Hamada and Carmen Elena have felt the shock of the global upheaval firsthand. Like them, millions of women in the Global South feel the sting of decisions made in offices thousands of kilometers away. Three comics and a common denominator: being a woman

The Pakistani activist visited Spain as part of an international campaign to have the ‘systematic erasure’ of women in Afghanistan recognized as a crime against humanity

The September protests forced Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli to resign and triggered an electoral process marked by the risk of new outbreaks of violence

Afghanistan’s de facto government has legalized gender-based violence since 2021, effectively turning mothers, daughters, and wives into objects owned by a husband or ‘master,’ without access to a fair trial for abuses suffered

Philippe Bolopion warns that ‘there is a risk that the U.S. switching sides on the global scene may strengthen the authoritarian wave that has been taking over the world.’ He argues that resistance will only succeed if the countries that still believe in democracy can unite strategically

Up to 40% of organizations report ‘major impacts’ on their work, according to surveys by the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination and other groups, which warn of the risk of rising cases and severe liver disease

Every day, people who have died in the US arrive at La Aurora Airport in a final migratory journey surrounded by scams, injustices, bureaucracy, and the unwavering will of their families

The Italian photojournalist, second finalist for the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, portrays the intimate lives of women under the yoke of the Taliban 

A report details the presence of women in positions of power at the United Nations since 1945 and laments the ‘fictitious transparency’ in decision-making. In 80 years, there have been only eight female candidates for the position currently held by António Guterres

The small paradise in the Indian Ocean, known for being home to numerous endemic species, has suffered significant environmental damage since civil war broke out in 2014

The billionaire and philanthropist participated this Monday in an event marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of EL PAÍS, where he reflected on the challenges of a world in crisis

The sovereign of Usui, a traditional kingdom in the south of the African country, focuses her mandate on defending the rights of girls

Reporters face censorship, threats, arrest and the risk of exile when they delve into possible violations committed by the country’s authoritarian government 

A brief two-hour journey was enough for the first outside witnesses to get a sense of a destroyed and practically deserted town with thousands of dead and displaced 

A toxic mix of 61 million tons of debris, 100,000 tons of explosives, and chemicals leaked into the earth has destroyed arable land, water and air quality. Any recovery is expected to take decades

Around 400 parishioners will spend their third Christmas sheltered in Gaza City’s church, with few resources and no spirit to celebrate. The gunfire they hear every night reminds them that the war is not over

UNICEF estimates that since 2013, some 19,000 children associated with armed groups in the Central African Republic have been reintegrated. Thousands more are still waiting to leave. This is their story, told in their own words

In a coastal village in the African country, the inhabitants banned the poaching of monkeys and transformed their coexistence with them into a lever for community development and ecotourism

A coalition of NGOs has challenged in court the deal in which the United States paid $5.1 million to the African country to take in migrants who were deported without a trial, some even after serving their sentences

According to the WHO, voluntary depigmentation persists in the country, with a prevalence rate of 50%. Experts warn how the practice has become more common over the last 10 years

Overcrowding at Kumasi Central Prison has turned it into a laboratory for treating neglected tropical diseases. The lack of space and the humidity create a perfect breeding ground for tuberculosis, measles and scabies, which prisoners spread upon their release

Once revered, the pachyderms of Jaipur are now at the center of a thriving but controversial industry