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Cats, cuddly toys and a portrait of Stalin: the last lift lady guarding Tbilisi’s brutalist skybridge
In the Georgian capital, 70-year-old Mzia Sabanadze manually operates the pay-as-you go elevator to the bridge connecting the once-futuristic Nutsubidze apartment blocks The three blocks of fla...
The ‘man who repairs women’ on rape as a weapon and how the world forgot the DRC
For the Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, who has treated more than 80,000 survivors of sexual violence by armed groups, the west displays double standards over the ‘stain on our humanity’ Walk...
Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence in Ukraine
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 ...
Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban
Now living in comparative freedom in Iran, 26-year-old Mahtab Eftekhar describes facing motherhood at 12 and explains why seeking justice for other women means she no longer fears death At the ...
Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals
Exclusive: MSF calls for transparency after its bill for a trial of TB treatment came to a fraction of the billions claimed by pharmaceutical companies Doctors have for the first time released ...
‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system
Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’ and despite claims of reform, kafala laws persist, allowing bosses to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is their testimony,...
Rapunzel reimagined: the women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection
And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities A deaf Snow White, a blind Cinderella, a neurodivergent ugly duckling and a ...
Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group
Human Rights Watch demands investigation into killings in two villages just weeks after Russian troops fly in, amid intensifying conflict Burkina Faso’s military summarily executed 223 civili...
Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown
Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls Harrowing first-hand accounts of women being dragged from the streets of Iran and deta...
Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban
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 ...
‘This country is what the world would like to be’: can ...ica’s environment minister keep its green reputation intact?
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...
Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda: the man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence
As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the border Every night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhta...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/20/sudan-hotel-rwanda-darfur-violence
US resumes deportation flights to Haiti despite continuing bloodshed
Critics condemn ‘reckless and cruel’ expulsions and say deportees likely to be targeted by armed gangs who control much of country More than 70 Haitians expelled from the United States have...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/18/us-deportation-flights-haiti
‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
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...
Panama’s presidential frontrunner vows to ‘close’ Darién Gap
In announcement three weeks before election, José Raúl Mulino gave no details of how he would stop migrant flow Panama’s presidential frontrunner has vowed to “close” the Darién Gap, t...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/18/panama-darien-gap-jose-raul-mulino
#BringBackOurGirls fought to keep global attention on Niger...Chibok girls. Ten years on it is still fighting | Helon Habila
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�...
Saudi Arabia is rebranding itself as a moderate country, bu...�s the truth? Just ask our female activists | Lina al-Hathloul
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...
‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’: the new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures
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...
‘Pregnancy is not a disease’: why do so many women die giving birth in Nigeria?
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 ...
‘I felt pains all over my body’: Argentina battles dengue outbreak as politicians pass up vaccine opportunity
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 ...
‘We searched for ladies over 70’: on the trail of Jordan’s forgotten folk music
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 ...
Power to the people? Bolivia’s hunt for gas targets national parks – and divides communities
Fossil fuel exports were meant to fund a revolutionary leftist agenda. But the state’s move to drill in Tariquía reserve has led to bitter conflict and diminishing returns • Photographs by...
Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library
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...
‘We would not survive without coffee’: how rules made in Europe put Ethiopian farmers at risk
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 ...
Stickers, soap and legal help: the rise of Mexico City’s ‘feminist markets’
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 ...
Built on sand: can Egypt’s new seaside city protect the country from war at its borders?
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...
The Hindu caretaker and his mosque: a symbol of harmony amid India’s religious discord
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 ...
Dismay in Addis Ababa as ‘the soul of the city’ is razed for development
Ethiopia’s push to attract tourism and investment has seen the demolition of a historic district in the capital, with people’s homes and livelihoods destroyed In the heart of Addis Ababa, t...
Having the right glasses could boost earning power by a third, Bangladesh study shows
Researchers find that in low and middle-income countries owning spectacles can help people over 35 increase their income Owning a pair of reading glasses might help people increase their earnin...
The suitcase-sized kit helping to rid the Philippines of one of history’s great killers
Tuberculosis remains the world’s most deadly infectious disease but change is coming that could cut the threat and consign the illness to the past Electricity cables slung low across the road...
‘Headaches, organ damage and even death’: how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk
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...
‘There are children here who do not want to be black’: one woman’s bid to save Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican museum
After 25 years, Angélica Sorrosa Alvarado is the last staff member left at Museo de las Culturas Afromestizas. She fears that soon it will be forced to close its doors Angélica Sorrosa Alvara...
Study: ‘gamechanger’ diabetes drugs cost up to 400 times more than needed
Drug companies urged to ‘release stranglehold’ on medicines such as Ozempic and Trulicity, as millions are priced out of treatment Drug companies are pricing diabetes medicines at almost 40...
Cars before people: how chaotic, polluted Dhaka is failing its elderly citizens
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...
If a diabetes policy of diet and exercise keeps failing, is it time for a new approach? | Amy McLennan
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...
Men enthusiastically express their heterosexuality in Ghana, so why is being queer so unacceptable? | Elliot Kwabena Akosa
Ghana is the latest state to suppress LGBTQ people, calling us un-African. But the ‘traditional culture’ they seek to protect was imposed by colonialism In the past 10 years, Ghana has tran...
South Africans take on big pharma for access to ‘miracle’ cystic fibrosis drug
Cheri Nel cannot afford Vertex’s Trikafta medicine, so she is suing to end ‘patent abuse’ and allow a generic version Cheri Nel has a blunt message for the multibillion-dollar pharmaceuti...
Unfair & Lovely: the Bollywood film shining a light on dark-skin discrimination
As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against children with darker complexions Three months ago, a high court judge in Chhattisg...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/15/unfair-lovely-bollywood-film-india
Calls for a global fund to tackle air pollution, killer of 7m a year
Health campaigners are voicing concerns that the issue is being neglected – despite the devastating death toll around the world Seven million people die each year from illnesses attributable ...
‘Life is meaningless’: despair in Cox’s Bazar as chronic illness blights camps
Many Rohingya refugees, who fled genocide in Myanmar for camps in Bangladesh, now find their lives devastated by diseases such as cancer and diabetes The tumours that kept growing in her chest ...
Bruno Pereira and Dom Phllips were killed in the Amazon. Their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the work
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 killing of Shireen Abu Akleh: what one morning in the West Bank reveals about the occupation
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...
The Great Abandonment: the extraordinary exodus of India’s migrant labourers
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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The ‘Spider-Man’ of Sudan: the real-life superhero of the protest movement
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...
How Chinese PPE factories supplying the UK may be using North Korean slave labour – video
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...
Indonesia's shark fishermen: 24 went out, 20 came back. What happened on the boat? - video
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...
Will green technology kill Chile's deserts? – video
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 ...
'We will fight to the last drop of blood': embattled Kashmiris target freedom – video
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....
Lord of the Rain: one man's fight against climate catastrophe – video
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...
This is America choreographer Sherrie Silver aims to 'make farming cool' – video
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...
Speech that led to death threats against an Armenian trans activist – video
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...
Plastic in paradise: the battle for the Galápagos Islands' future – video
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...
'We need free period products in schools – it's a human right' – video
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...
'I will not keep silent': Khadija rape case spurs women into action in Morocco – video
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...
'I can't sleep, it's like torture': Yemeni mother on living with famine – video
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 ...
Healing the scars of war: the women rebuilding Mozambique's national park - video
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...
Dead or imprisoned for having an abortion: fighting El Salvador's brutal laws – video
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...
The first 1,000 days: their impact on a child's future, narrated by Jay Rayner – video
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 ...
At 11 years old, they're getting pregnant': the women smashing Catholic taboos in the Philippines
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...
Slavery eyewitness: hell on a Thai slave ship – video
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...