Nepal, Sept. 14 -- On a day of countrywide protests against rampant corruption and control over freedom of expression in Nepal on September 8, 2025, "19 killed and almost 400 injured in police firing" reads like a dispatch from a distant land. Numbers without stories lose their power-and numb the audience.

Since its October 2023 invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israel has killed more than 60,000 people-nearly a third of them children under 18-including several journalists. It's a staggering toll that many human rights experts and advocacy groups have characterised as genocide. But the deafening silence of most world powers and only muted or cautious responses from the international community show that the full force of a tragedy hits only whe...