Lazo Magazine

On weekends, Santiago's financial district empties out — and fills back up again with K-Pop dance cover groups. lazomagazine.com/in-chile-k-pop…

In rural Vietnam, access to good maternal and infant health information is hard to come by. A new app is changing that. lazomagazine.com/a-new-app-teac…

Vienna isn't just opera houses and Sachertorte. It's techno clubs, social housing with a radical history, and a pride parade that beats New York and London. lazomagazine.com/an-exclusive-l…

On weekends, Santiago's financial district empties out — and fills back up again with K-Pop dance cover groups. A joyful, surprising story about Korean pop culture, community, and self-expression in Latin America. lazomagazine.com/in-chile-k-pop…

Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu was arrested and tortured for defending his community's ancestral land in Ghana. After fleeing to the U.S., he founded Land Rights Defenders — and took his fight to the United Nations. lazomagazine.com/indigenous-lan…

Nissa Kinzhalina is a 31-year-old furniture designer in Almaty who is reinventing what it means to make something distinctly Kazakh, blending traditional craft with contemporary design in a country redefining its identity. lazomagazine.com/weddings-and-f…

Vienna isn't just opera houses and Sachertorte. It's techno clubs, social housing with a radical history, and a pride parade that beats New York and London. lazomagazine.com/an-exclusive-l…

Russia declared Jehovah's Witnesses a terrorist organisation in 2017. Now members in Kyrgyzstan — which shares deep ties with Moscow — fear the same law could be used against them. lazomagazine.com/kyrgyzstans-je…

The Ahwazi Arabs of Iran are one of the country's most persecuted minorities — stripped of their language, their land, and their identity by the state. lazomagazine.com/irans-ahwazi-a…

They spent years fighting Syria's civil war. Now they're building an orphanage for its youngest victims. A remarkable on-the-ground report from Idlib. lazomagazine.com/in-syria-forme…

In the highlands of central Ethiopia, rural women are transforming their communities — growing nutritious food, training their neighbours, and taking on child malnutrition one harvest at a time. lazomagazine.com/women-in-ethio…

Everyone knows Zanzibar as a paradise of white sand and spice. Fewer know about the 40,000 enslaved people who arrived there every year, or the bloody revolution that followed. lazomagazine.com/on-the-dark-or…

Every day in Indonesia, locals ask her, "Why are you Asian?" Growing up Filipino, Japanese, and Polish in a white suburb of LA, she'd spent years trying not to answer that question. An honest essay on identity, race, and belonging. lazomagazine.com/why-are-you-as…

They've crossed deserts, seas, and borders to reach the English Channel. And now they wait in a muddy camp in Calais, willing to risk everything for a chance at a better life. lazomagazine.com/migrants-in-ca…

At 19, she was promised to a man three decades older. A searing first-person essay from Afghanistan about courage, survival, and a system that never stopped punishing her for escaping. lazomagazine.com/what-happened-…

Nearly half of Luxembourg's population is foreign-born, and immigrants are making it far more complex than its three official languages suggest. One expat calls it "the new London of Europe." lazomagazine.com/the-new-london…

Russia bombed Hotel Continental in Mariupol. So Ukrainians rebuilt it in Berlin. lazomagazine.com/ukrainians-in-…

In Montreal, even saying hello is political. "Bonjour-hi," the city's famously bilingual greeting, is at the centre of a debate that cuts to the heart of Quebec's identity. lazomagazine.com/bonjour-hi-ins…

For nearly a decade, a civil war has been tearing Cameroon's English-speaking regions apart. More than 6,000 people are dead. The international community has barely noticed. lazomagazine.com/how-to-underst…

Vietnamese labourers in Serbian factories. Chinese infrastructure investment. A story about exploitation, geopolitics, and the human cost of great power competition. lazomagazine.com/vietnamese-lab…