“现在的老百姓，失业的，破产的……在这种背景下，出了个‘三孩政策’，已经实行了三年，基本属于流产。年轻人不结婚，结了婚我也不要孩子，因为孩子生下来，我养不起。” 在中国的政治空气越发风声鹤唳的当下，敢于接受美国之音采访的中国人少之又少。北京资深媒体人高瑜是个异数。 因为写作，高瑜三度获刑，几十年来受到的打压从未停止。今年，当局的打压来得更为猛烈。8月，她家中的宽带、手机、座机全部被切断，年已八旬的 ...

የሶሪያ መሪ ባሻር አል አሳድ አገዛዝ ድንገተኛ አወዳደቅ፣ 14 ዓመታት ለሚጠጋ ጊዜ የተካሄደ አመፅ እና፣ በመቶ እና ሺሕዎች የሚቆጠሩ ሰዎች የተገደሉበት፣ ከሀገሪቱ ሕዝብ ግማሽ የሚኾነው ...

More than 20,000 au pairs came to the U.S. in 2018. Top five countries of origin from 2016 - 2018: ...

While the United States has a long history of accepting immigrants from around the world fleeing persecution and war, the term “refugee” wasn’t defined until the mid-20th century following the massive ...

កម្ពុជា បាន ទទួល ឯករាជ្យ ពី អាណានិគម និយម បារាំង នៅ ឆ្នាំ ១៩៥៣ ...

The term ‘child marriage’ refers to formal marriages and informal unions in which a girl or boy under age 18 lives with a partner as if married. In an informal union, a couple lacks a formal civil or ...

“How is your daughter doing? Is she well?” The email to Nazenin Ansari, from someone she suspects is an Iranian agent, sent shivers up the journalist’s spine. It didn’t matter that Ansari was in the ...

Thousands of workers died during Qatar 2022 World Cup-related construction, far more than in the run up to every other World Cup or Olympic Games in the past 30 years combined. This short documentary ...

Édgar Zúñiga runs this 80-year-old ice cream shop in Quito. This shop has seen a lot of history, including back in the 1990s when power had to be rationed. There were blackouts and even a national ...

It was just a regular run to the store with his children. With his youngest in the cart, Jésus Humberto González focused on what he needed to buy. It was just a regular run to the store with his ...

Berlin, Germany I left my job at Beijing Radio [in 2004] because of government interference. At Beijing Radio, we would randomly receive phone calls or orders from Chinese Communist Party Propaganda ...