mines

Residents of Izium take a break next to some shattered stores. Most of the residents left but some elderly stayed behind.

Izium was liberated in September. The hard work of returning back to normal has only begun.

November 15, 2022Ukraine

It’s been two months since Ukrainian forces took back this city, but life is far from back to normal. The World visited Izium earlier this month and saw firsthand Russia’s trail of devastation, mines and one of the biggest mass graves discovered since the war began.

These photos of Filipino children working in mines and on sugar plantations will make you cry

March 1, 2015Justice

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