The Take

After cases of child rape made headlines in Sierra Leone this year, the government declared a national emergency around sexual violence. This week, we meet two people who made the fight personal.

Journalists and human rights activists from Mexico to the Middle East are being targeted by spyware purchased by their governments. This week, we talk to Josh Rushing from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines team about the software suite that can turn your cell phone into someone else’s secret weapon.

The fighting in Mali looks like a tribal conflict, but it’s much bigger than that. This week, we’re reporting from a new front in the West African nation, out of the public eye. An absent government is letting old rivalries flare, groups like Al Qaeda are fueling the fire, and a major UN peacekeeping mission can’t stop the unprecedented violence.

Scores of protesters were killed at a sit-in in Khartoum, Sudan on June 3. Al Jazeera journalists were in the city, but banned from reporting — the military government had shut down the bureau days before. Now, they tell us what they saw and heard. For one correspondent, it hits close to home. 

If you’re a refugee and you arrive in Australia by boat, the government will never let you in. Security forces tow away boats, and asylum seekers are sent to detention centers on remote islands. This week, we meet a doctor-turned-whistleblower who saw what happens in those camps, and a refugee who spent nearly five years in one.

This spring, tens of thousands of children have come to the US-Mexico border alone seeking asylum. Some have died in government custody. What's happening to unaccompanied minors who try to cross into the US, and where will they end up? This week, we hear from one teen who jumped the fence.

A new European Parliament is ready for swearing in, and it's as divided as its 28 member states. The centrist parties have suffered heavy losses. Far-right and far-left parties gained some ground. Where did the EU come from, and with this last election, where is it headed?

It seemed like a recipe for conflict: Take the Iran nuclear deal, add a dash of John Bolton and some US warships, and top it off with a mysterious sabotage of oil tankers near one of the most sensitive stretches of water in the world. We take you there to examine just how close the US and Iran have come to the edge of war.

It started with a reporter’s curiosity and led to a three-year undercover investigation into the world's most powerful gun lobby. Al Jazeera’s investigative unit uncovered a link between the NRA and Australia's far right.

If you want to deny somebody the vote in India, you can ask the government to strip somebody from the voter list with just a name and a web connection. Is that why millions of Indians, many of them minorities, are being turned away from the polls — or are they just victims of bureaucracy?