Ceasefire now!

I don’t know my own birthday. My family and I fled Somalia when I was just a child, after my brother was killed by a stray grenade in the war. In the chaos of escape, my birth certificate and our fami

Christmas in Gaza is like everywhere else and nowhere else. At the branch of the YMCA International in Gaza City, switching on the lights of the Christmas tree was a major event attended by hundreds,

Green is the colour Kareem remembers most. In Rafah, the southern Gaza city where he grew up, there were green fields, farms and countryside. He remembers it being very calm and everything from his sc

We can’t predict exactly how you’ll be feeling as the year comes to a close, but our best guess is that you’ll be in need of a breather. Because for many of us, 2025 has not been painless. Political t

“Traditionally, we followed the Orthodox calendar and celebrated Christmas on 7 January – a week after New Year,” Tetiana Levchenko tells Big Issue. “But recently, Ukraine shifted to align with Europe

This December marks 15 years since the murder of Joanna Yeates, a 25-year-old landscape architect who lived in Bristol with her boyfriend, Greg Reardon. Joanna was reported missing six days before Chr