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Rights and Freedom

A Guardian series reporting on human rights abuses around the world and elevating the voices of those fighting for justice.

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  • 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
  • A woman paints another woman's fingernails

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

    After they were banned in 2023, beauty parlours that once provided a safe space for Afghan women were forced underground
  • 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

    Yasmine Ahmed of Human Rights Watch says the UK should not challenge the international criminal court’s right to seek justice for alleged war crimes
  • A trans woman looks out of a grill over a window on to a street

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

    More than 40 transgender women were killed last year, with armed groups’ threatening a further wave of ‘social cleansing’ in Caquetá
    • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

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

    • Damaged structure of a burned out building with rubble lying around

      Myanmar
      Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report

    • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

      Transnational repression
      UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

    • A dark-haired young man in a suit jacket poses on a sofa

      Transnational repression
      Iranian TV presenter stabbed in London moves abroad for safety

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Multimedia

  • Fawzia, Manahel and Maryam al-Otaibi.

    The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence – podcast

  • New Rwandans, from left, Yvan Kambari, Esther Iranzi and

    ‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’: the new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures

  • Motaz Azaiza standing among smoking rubble

    Motaz Azaiza: capturing Israel’s offensive on Gaza from the inside – in pictures

  • Hazar stands outside a collapsed apartment building where her family used to live in Antakya.

    A year in the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake – a photo essay

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Spotlight

  • An illustration featuring European landmarks such as Big Ben, the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa

    How big is Europe’s cocaine problem – and what is the human cost?

  • Cécile Kohler appears on iran tv wearing a headscarf whilst delivering a forced confession

    ‘I saw my sister forced to say she was a spy on Iranian TV. It was the worst day of my life’

  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

    ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters?

  • 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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Explore

  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk

  • Women from Geneina in a refugee camp in Adré, Chad, in November.

    Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda: the man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence

  • A placard of the Ghanaian flag above its coat of arms saying "queer Ghanaian lives matter" attached to railings outside a building

    Men enthusiastically express their heterosexuality in Ghana, so why is being queer so unacceptable?

    Elliot Kwabena Akosa
  • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

    Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

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