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Zakia, originally from Afghanistan's Loghar province, has been living in Pakistan since 2014 with her three sons and a daughter. As she contemplates returning to Afghanistan, Zakia is haunted by the traumatic events that forced her to…

Bhutan’s much-touted happiness rating lies atop a bed of pain. The pain of Bhutanese refugees of Nepali origin. I know, because I am one of them.

As many as 103 editors and journalist from across India from various media houses and news agencies across the spectrum and across media platforms in an urgent appeal have appealed fellow editors and journalists to ensure that Manipur stays…

This is an urgent appeal to editors and fellow journalists to ensure that Manipur stays in the news. After more than two months of unprecedented civic strife and violence, events in this state have gone off the front pages.

Zarifa Ghafari made history in 2018 when she became the first woman mayor for Maidan Shahr, the capital of Maidan Wardak province. She would be only the second woman mayor in Afghanistan’s history.

With more than 80 dead and about 35,000 fleeing home, recent violence in multi-ethnic Manipur, one of India’s most diverse states, has shattered years of tenuous coexistence and fractured bonds between majority Metei and tribal communities.…

While 6,520 internally displaced people from Manipur have taken shelter in Mizoram, another 1,400 camped in Assam’s Cachar.

There are over 35,000 Myanmar refugees in 11 districts of Mizoram and over 400 Myanmarese children attend private and state-run schools in the state

Patricia Mukhim tells us what triggered the communal violence in Manipur, the role of the state government and what steps can lead to normalcy.

“While both India and Pakistan periodically release large numbers of prisoners as gestures of goodwill there appears to be no streamlined process that ensures the rights of foreign prisoners are systematically upheld rather than on an ad…