Three men await trial in Brazil for the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, but no date is set and Amazon activists still live in fear of violence Nearly two years after Dom Phillips and...
Philip Morris International has supported non-smoking programmes around the world ‘to advance its own interests’, say health professionals The tobacco company Philip Morris has sponsored co...
As the climate crisis forces people to abandon their land in Rajasthan, a new industry has sprung up in the desert state, with thousands of gaily decorated vans setting off to sell ice-cream acro...
Threats from the state have led many journalists across the world to flee their home countries to report from elsewhere. But for many the intimidation did not stop when they left Illustrations ...
In the past year, in virtually every region, journalists and independent media outlets faced increasing repression Political attacks on press freedom, including the detention of journalists, su...
The population of El Fasher, which includes thousands of displaced people, is in ‘dire need of food, medicine and water’ Water, food and fuel supplies for people in the largest city in the ...
Nezouh, a dreamlike story of a family under siege in Damascus, seeks to portray the difficult decision of all refugees as to whether to stay or leave the country they love When Soudade Kaadan e...
Birthplace and parents’ names are being removed from passports and birth certificates as Mauritius stakes claim to the island Exiled islanders from the disputed British-owned Chagos Islands a...
Her family have been threatened and her team faces increasing risks in Afghanistan, but Zahra Joya knows she must keep reporting from exile On the nights that she manages to fall asleep, Zahra ...
More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive Dexter Melchor Matías works in the Za...
For the first time Ukraine had the right conditions to make reparations to those subjected to crimes such as rape and sexual slavery. What would it take to replicate this globally? Across the w...
Silencing of a film-maker documenting the widespread 2022 demonstrations against Covid controls is part of rising suppression of press freedom In November 2022, thousands of people took to the ...
Last year was the most dangerous to be a reporter since 2015. Without the courage of correspondents risking everything to report from conflict areas, we could be at risk of ‘zones of silence’...
First payments to be made during an ongoing conflict is ‘important step towards restoring justice’, says first lady, Olena Zelenska The first reparation payments are to be made in the next ...
Petition filed on behalf of woman known as as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped Honduras is being taken to a global human rights body for the first time over its total ...
The families of thousands of people who have gone missing in Balochistan province spend their lives in sit-ins and rallies When people filled the streets and parks to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in P...
Brewing can involve incense, butter, herbs or spices, and takes so long neighbours take it in turns. But they wouldn’t have it any other way Drinking coffee takes time in Ethiopia, a nation o...
Though touted as a model of environmental preservation, the country has recently signalled a shift from phasing out fossil fuels to boosting the economy. Franz Tattenbach on the tension between g...
Lebanon’s economy and electricity system are broken and much power is now generated locally, with devastating effects on air quality and health Smog hangs over Beirut most days, a brownish cl...
Behind a veneer of progress, injustice and inequality propped up by corruption and the caste system haunt the subcontinent This year, more than 80 countries and half the world’s population fa...
The national blood deficit is most pressing in places like Turkana, where malaria, anaemia and violence make heavy demands on transfusion services – and doctors are pinning their hopes on innov...
Cinemovel is screening Oscar-nominated Io Capitano to packed houses around the country, highlighting the perils migrants face on the journey to Europe At about 1pm on Monday a 35-seater bus arr...
In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk Living on...
With no centralised relief effort in Egypt, Palestinians are relying on grassroots charities for food, rent and clothing The last thing Rania sold was her jewellery. In the weeks after her fami...
As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste often falls to informal traders who risk injury when dismantling broken panels Unde...
The campaign that came to prominence when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their classes in 2014 has had an impact beyond its first rallying cries It was a kidnapping that changed Nigeria�...
My sister Loujain has been placed under a travel ban and lives in constant fear of arrest. She is one of many Lina al-Hathloul is head of monitoring and advocacy at ALQST for Human Rights Saudi...
Between 800,000 and 1 million Rwandans were massacred in 100 days between April and June 1994. The ethnic genocide by Hutu militias ended with the seizure of power by the Tutsi troop...
More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system Despite having the ...
Rising temperatures, dense urban populations and increasing poverty have contributed to more than a quarter of a million cases, and campaigners don’t think the government is doing enough about ...
An arts organisation has been seeking out and recording the region’s traditional music and is teaching the lyrics to young singers In the Jordanian town of Tafilah, a six-year-old boy softly ...
In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Pakistan is reaching thousands of children in slums Pedalling down a narrow alleyway in Karachi’s crowded Lyari Town...
Coffee is the country’s biggest export, but millions of smallholders are being asked to provide paperwork to prove their land is not deforested The first white flowers are starting to appear ...
In a country beset by sky-high rates of femicide, a mutual support movement has helped women seize back public spaces – and make a living Photographs by Mahe Elipe As the sun rises in Mexico ...
Ras el–Hekma is part of a $60bn package to help the economy withstand the impact of conflict in Gaza, but critics fear the money will entrench a corrupt, oppressive regime It is one of the fe...
Bechan Baba has dedicated his life to Varanasi’s Anarwali mosque, where Hindus and Muslims come to pray – despite the historical disputes raging outside In the heart of Varanasi, where the ...
Amid alarming rates of the illness, many living with it are seen as cursed. Now these myths are being challenged Courage Vidzengsi had her first epileptic seizure when she was eight. Jerking un...
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia Photographs by Farza...
Pollution, traffic, noise – the busy streets of the Bangladeshi capital prohibit many who are ill or have limited mobility from leaving their homes, posing further risks to their health The d...
On the Pacific island of Nauru the disease has been addressed in the same way for 50 years, but evidence of other factors – from poor air to stress – challenge old assumptions Fifty years a...
Three assassins walked into a bar deep in the Brazilian Amazon one night last October. Beers flowed, tongues loosened and the men were overheard bragging about their latest job. “We’re lookin...
The face of Al Jazeera in Palestine, Abu Akleh was a journalist whose death resounded across the Arab world. Hours later, a bullet claimed the life of a schoolboy 60 miles away, Thaer Yazouri. Th...
In 2020, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, announced one of the harshest Covid lockdowns in the world, causing nearly 200 million migrant labourers to be stranded without wages, food and ...
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In Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, an anonymous protester dressed as Spider-Man joins the hundreds of thousands of protesters desperate to protect their fragile civilian government after the militar...
A look inside the Guardian's three-month investigation into Chinese factories exporting PPE to countries including the US, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and My...
Crew from rural Indonesian villages, recruited by suspected traffickers, endured horrendous conditions aboard an illegal Chinese-run sharking operation in the western Pacific. Four men never came...
The Atacama in northern Chile is the driest desert in the world, and may be the oldest. It also holds 40% of the world's lithium – an essential ingredient in the rechargeable batteries used in ...
Determined to prevent security forces from entering their community, people in the suburb of Anchar, in the disputed region of Kashmir, stand united in their desire to achieve freedom from India....
Doyte lives in South Omo, Ethiopia, one of the most remote areas in the world and hard hit by the climate crisis. As Lord of the Rain, it’s Doyte’s job to summon the rains, but for five years...
Meet 24-year-old Sherrie Silver, the mastermind behind Childish Gambino's provocative video, which has attracted more than 540m views on YouTube to date. Now the award-winning choreographer is dr...
Armenia’s first passport-registered transgender woman has received death threats following an impassioned parliamentary speech. Lilit Martirosyan became the first member of the country’s lesb...
The Galápagos Islands are supposedly one of the most pristine locations on the planet, but plastic pollution arriving by sea is threatening this unique habitat and wildlife. Leah Green travels t...
A teenager from London, Amika George campaigns against period poverty. One in 10 girls in the UK miss school because they cannot afford pads and tampons, and George describes the ‘horrific’ a...
Moroccan teenager Khadija says she was kidnapped at knife-point, then raped, beaten and tortured by 12 men during a two-month ordeal. The case caused outrage, and inspired the #Masaktach – 'I w...
Suad, whose son is receiving treatment for severe acute malnutrition from Save the Children, says she is constantly worrying about where the next meal will come from for her family. The charity ...
In the heart of central Mozambique, Gorongosa park was destroyed in the crossfire of the country's civil war. Now women are leading the way in its restoration, helping to heal the scars left by t...
The total ban on abortion in this deeply religious Central American country means that women have been jailed over miscarriages, or died as a result of unsafe terminations. But amid growing prote...
Good nutrition, healthcare and sanitation are crucial to a child’s early development. Without these, a child’s brain won’t develop properly. They will have a lower IQ and they will grow up ...
The stigma surrounding sex education and family planning in the Philippines is such that 65% of women do not use contraceptives. Five years ago, Congress passed a reproductive health law guarante...
Ecostorm film journalist Jim Wickens describes how he threw himself into the sea in order to be picked up by a passing slave ship. During his journey by sea and by land he found a world where cas...