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The kilns are lit before dawn. By mid-morning in the brick belt districts of central India, temperatures have climbed past 45 degrees Celsius, and the workers — backs bent, faces scarved against the dust — have already been at it for hours. For Madhura Ghane or Mahi G , a rap...

As bullets tore through a minibus on the road to Kabul in 2014, an 18-year-old Afghan girl lay motionless among the dead and wounded, smearing menstrual blood across her face in a desperate bid to survive a Taliban attack.

Eleven years later, that same woman stood atop Mount Everest, having overcome war, discrimination, personal loss and extraordinary odds to reach th...

In Kambélé, an artisanal mining hub in Cameroon’s East region, 18-year-old Jérémie Nathan sits on a mound of excavated earth holding a hand-shovel. Until last month, he cleared gravel lines for Zhenguo Sarl, a foreign-owned semi-mechanised mining company operating in the area. Today, the excavators are chained and silent. A central government decree has ordered more than 200 ...

Twenty-year-old Saloni Taneja had barely slept. For days, she and hundreds of other students had been eating, sleeping and protesting under the open sky at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi’s designated protest site, as June temperatures hovered near 40°C. Around her, demonstrators clutched roses and books and sang about revolution, equality and justice — non-violent gestures of disse...