Migrants risk all to cross from Mexico to the US Every year, thousands of undocumented migrants brave criminal gangs, immigration officials and the elements to hitch rides on the freight trains running from southern Mexico to the US-Mexican border. The trains are known as ‘the Beast’ or the ‘Train of Death’. Kidnappings, murder, detention and accidents are common. >>

Female face of migration When impoverished women decide to leave their countries to work abroad, they often are deceived or abused. Agents might offer them paying jobs as models, nannies, or maids, but the jobs do not exist. >>

U-turn Ukraine: There’s no place like home “Life abroad is very difficult at first,” says Oxana (real name redacted). “I wanted to return to Ukraine for a long time, practically from the moment I got to Belgium.” >>

‘They’ve sold you’: sex trafficking in Nepal Over the course of 18 months, Rekha was sold into three different brothels. In the last one, she convinced a client to let her use his cell phone—and told the police about the hiding place under the floor. When the police arrived, Rekha and 24 other girls were freed. >>

A future for Congo’s women Conflict in Congo over the last ten years has been one of the worst humanitarian crises in living memory. The death toll is in the millions. The fighting is officially over (though attacks by armed groups continue and lawlessness remains an acute problem). >>