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Hélène Bienvenu on how the situation for Polish women seeking an abortion has become increasingly difficult due to restricted rights and the COVID-19 pandemic.

“They expected to pressure and silence me this way, but I came out of this battle much louder, stronger and more confident.” Meet Tamar Mearakishvili, a Georgian activist who refuses to let [...]

Thousands of women in Kyrgyzstan are victims of bride-kidnapping every year. According to the report published in 2016 by the National Statistical Committee, about 10,000 cases of [...]

Key figures of the Belarussian opposition have so far been successful in coordinating, encouraging and invigorating protest from abroad. By using mass media, namely Telegram, Facebook and [...]

On 22 October Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal voted through a proposal to further restrict an already strict law on abortion. The ruling to ban the abortion of severe and irreversibly impaired [...]

After two months of war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Renee Rippberger sends us a postcard from a country in shock and mourning.

Mass protests in Poland are making headlines once again, this time due to further restrictions on abortion rights. It is nothing new, though. Arguably, one of the things Poland is most known for [...]

Migration to the global cities of the Soviet Union plays an important part in the history of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Exploring the narratives of those moving to these global cities, Jeff [...]

Nikol Tomar recounts how Poland's "homophobuses" has met with resistance from a famous Youtuber.

In a flareup of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in July 2020, the fighting extended well beyond the South Caucasus. Armenian and Azerbaijani diaspora communities brawled in the [...]