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  • A poster of a veiled older Asian woman with holes in her face

    Bangladesh
    Sheikh Hasina: child of the revolution who eroded Bangladesh’s democracy

    The sudden downfall of the world’s longest-serving female leader has ended one of South Asia’s most enduring political dynasties. But will Hasina’s legacy be huge development gains or rights abuses and alleged killings?
  • A Pakistani woman holds a placard reading "there is no honour in killing" during a protest. Another sign says "no more honour killings"

    Domestic violence
    She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

    Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violence
  • A female African soloist sings in front of a symphony orchestra in a concert hall

    Culture
    African classical music hits world stage as the Africa United Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall

    The ensemble, made up of musicians from across Africa, will perform in public for only the second time as part of world orchestra week at the legendary New York venue
  • Devi Khadka, holding up her hand among a group of women in the documentary film Devi.

    Nepal
    Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka

    After Nepal’s bitter conflict ended in 2006, Khadka thought she could make a difference in parliament. A new documentary tells of her disillusion with the healing process, and why she is passionate about seeking justice for the violated women without a voice
    • Closeup of a midge on a person’s hand

      Health
      Outbreak of Oropouche virus in Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, say experts

    • An armed man in fatigues and combat gear watches a pick-up truck burn

      Brazil
      The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals

    • Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.

      Darfur
      Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

    • A man in combat fatigues stands by a mental door aiming a rifle at an unseen target

      Haiti
      UN calls for foreign security forces to be deployed faster to quash Haiti gang wars

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Explore

  • A middle-aged white women standing on a stage talking to an unseen audience

    Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment

    Prof Linda-Gail Bekker receives ovation at Aids summit after presenting trial results of ‘miracle’ drug lenacapavir
  • Spanish NGO rescues 176 irregular migrants in international waters<br>CARRARA - ITALY, OCTOBER 4 : Survived migrants wait to be disembarked from the ship who were rescued by the Spanish NGO 'Open Arms' on October 4, 2023 in Carrara, Italy. About 176 migrants of 14 different nationalities from Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan, Eritrea, Palestine, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Egypt, Chad, Senegal and Mali were rescued by 'Open Arms' who carried out 3 rescue operations at the international waters of the Central Mediterranean sea. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Don’t look away! Why writers need to shout about Africa’s migration crisis

    Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
  • Millions of Venezuelans abroad unable to vote due to government obstacles<br>epa11491941 Venezuelans walk across the Simon Bolivar Bridge in Villa del Rosario, Colombia, 18 July 2024 (issued 22 July 2024). Venezuela currently has a population of approximately 29.4 million people, of whom 21.4 million are theoretically eligible to vote in the presidential elections scheduled for July 28, both within and outside the country. EPA/Mario Caicedo

    ‘To be reunited … would be a dream’: Venezuelan exiles’ fate hangs on vote

  • A Russell's viper snake coiled on the grass

    Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper

  • A painting of a girl with her mouth sewn shut and an old women

    ‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM

  • A man in a white coat passes a probe over a woman's abdomen and looks at a screen.

    ‘I am happy to see how my baby is bouncing’: the AI transforming pregnancy scans in Africa

  • Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

  • I do not expect a free trial. But to give up means the end of journalism in Mongolia

    Unurtsetseg Naran

  • ‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

  • ‘Life has come to a standstill’: the Palestinian refugees struggling to survive in Egypt

  • Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers

  • In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

  • The Hindujas made UK headlines for mistreating their servants. In India no one batted an eye – here’s why

    Amrit Dhillon in Delhi

  • In the footsteps of tigers: the all-women patrol team protecting Sumatra’s rainforest

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Rights and freedom

  • A woman paints another woman's fingernails

    ‘They can stone us and flog us – I will keep using makeup’: why women risk everything in Afghanistan’s secret salons

  • A trans woman looks out of a grill over a window on to a street

    ‘We are killed for what we are’: trans women in Colombia targeted by armed groups

  • A crowd of people on a pro-Palestine march stand behind barriers and hold flags and banners

    Labour must drop challenge over Netanyahu arrest warrant, says human rights chief

  • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

    ‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

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A common condition

  • Sad young African man thinking and looking depressed

    Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum

  • Elizabeth Odondi standing by a bridge in a garden

    I told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18

    • Portrait of a black woman sitting in a chair next to a computer with a screensaver reading: 'Brain Health Initiative Nigeria'

      ‘They wanted her to confess to witchcraft’: ending the chilling effects of dementia stigma in Nigeria

    • The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster team team distributes dry food rations. April 2023

      ‘There was no other option’: the aid packages feeding diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands

    • Sayed Ahmed with his arm around his wife Amena Khatun by the Rupsha River in Khulna, Bangladesh

      ‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’
      The deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh

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In pictures

  • Actor and model Stella Chuisse impersonates Angélique Kidjo, a singer, songwriter and composer from Benin

    Women behind the lens: ‘I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans’

    Model and actor Stella Tchuisse impersonates trailblazing women who have ‘changed narratives’ about the continent
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Southern frontlines

  • A tiger seen through the rotting grille of its cage, Joya Grande, Honduras.

    Narco folly: inside the crumbling Honduran zoo built by a drug cartel

  • Large industrial buildings and car parks on a green plain

    Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay

  • Man cycling across a bridge over a river in desert landscape in Mexico.

    ‘They’re waiting till we die of cancer’: 10 years on, Mexico’s worst mining disaster still poisons lives

  • Thomas Devroy, of Arau village, looks out over the Essequibo region. The two countries' growing dispute over the oil-rich land has raised tensions across Latin America.

    Tensions rise in Guyana as Maduro uses border dispute to build support ahead of Venezuela poll

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Explainers

  • Families arrive on a beach in Mozambique carrying belongings wrapped in fabric bundles on their heads

    At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

  • A man in a balaclava holding a rifle looks back at the camera while walking along a dirt street

    What caused the civil war in Sudan and how has it become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?

  • Photo of the World Health Organization (WHO) logo displayed on screen with medical syringes and vaccine vials

    What is the pandemic accord and why have negotiations been so difficult?

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river

    Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?

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  • Shireen Abu Akleh
  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary
  • Still image from documentary, The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan
  • Chris is a reproductive health advocate in the Phillippines

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