Afghan women artists are playing a vital role in the women’s movement resisting Taliban abuses. New web gallery:

Human Rights Watch

A human being is more delicate than a flower and tougher than a rock

Every EU & UK politician who called for #Syria refugees to be sent home in recent years - saying it was safe - should apologize. Every journalist should call them out on past statements. Every voter who fell for politicians' nonsense should pledge not to be fooled in future.

Saydnaya Prison: Mapping the Assads' 'human slaughterhouse'

Thousands of people have been executed and tortured in the secretive prison since the 1980s.