- Adoption, Children, Family, Global development, Home Office, Human rights, Immigration and asylum, Life and style, Pakistan, Politics, Society, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Visa delays leave UK families with adopted babies stranded in Pakistan
Home Office accused of leaving mothers and traumatised children stranded for months while priority is given to…
- Afghanistan, Brexit, Children, Europe, European Union, Global development, Human rights, Immigration and asylum, Politics, Refugees, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
‘The need is still there’: last young refugees arrive in UK as family reunion route closes
Activists lament that a safe, legal way into Britain has closed with Brexit, when stranded children need it as…
- Asia Pacific, Cambodia, China, Coronavirus outbreak, Drones (non-military), Global development, Human rights, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Surveillance, Thailand, World news
Drones, fever goggles, arrests: millions in Asia face ‘extreme’ Covid surveillance
Coronavirus tracking measures handing ‘unchecked powers’ to authoritarian regimes, activists warn Coronavirus …
- Africa, Child marriage, Children, Coronavirus outbreak, Global development, Malawi, Nepal, South and Central Asia, World news
Why Covid school closures are making girls marry early
The pandemic’s impact is long-term: the UN warns that it could lead to 13 million more child marriages over a …
- Americas, Asia Pacific, Climate change, Global health, Infectious diseases, South and Central Asia, World news
Global heating driving spread of mosquito-borne dengue fever
Record numbers across Asia and Americas infected as rising temperatures extend disease to places once seen as …