Human rights
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Beijing court to rule in appeal of jailed Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu
Detention of Dong on espionage charges has been criticised by human rights and press freedom organisationsA co…
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Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at women’s conference
Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagon…
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‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion
Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security br…
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‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion
Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security br…
- Asia Pacific, Cambodia, China, Cybercrime, Human rights, Human trafficking, Myanmar, Organised crime, Scams, South and Central Asia, World news
The Guardian view on the online scam industry: authorities must not forget that perpetrators are often victims too | Editorial
A lucrative sector is spreading fast as criminal enterprises force abused and trafficked workers to cheat othe…
- Africa, Americas, Art and design, Asia Pacific, Brazil, Cambodia, Conservation, Conservation and indigenous people, Culture, Environment, Global development, Human rights, Nepal, Nigeria, Photography, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Visions of resistance: women fighting to save their homeland – in pictures
The theme of this year’s Women By Women exhibition, Rooted in Resistance, is to showcase images of women defen…
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My calls and emails to family in Afghanistan go unanswered. The Taliban’s internet shutdown has left us all helpless | Shadi Khan Saif
From the safety of Australia, I watch in despair as my loved ones in Kabul navigate this digital darkness – a …
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global education, Human rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘It kept our spirits alive’: Taliban’s internet blackout leaves girls in despair
Many Afghan women and girls can no longer communicate or study online after the internet is cut off in 12 prov…
- Asia Pacific, Cambodia, Conflict and arms, Global development, Human rights, Human trafficking, Laos, Law, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, Organised crime, Scams, South and Central Asia, Thailand, Torture, World news
Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such a…
- Afghanistan, Beauty, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, World news
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operations…
- Afghanistan, Beauty, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, World news
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operations…
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Fausto Belo Ximenes obituary
My friend Fausto Belo Ximenes, known as Nino, who has died suddenly aged 43, was one of the first Timorese cou…
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North Korean defector to sue Kim Jong-un alleging torture and sexual violence in regime’s detention facilities
Choi Min-kyung is seeking damages from the state represented by its leader and has also submitted a criminal c…
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China’s human rights lawyers speak out, 10 years after crackdown
In 2015, a nationwide campaign rounded up hundreds of rights advocates. Since then, suppression has become mor…
- Bangladesh, Global development, Human rights, India, Islam, Migration, Race, Religion, South and Central Asia, World news
India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups
There are fears the crackdown against ‘outsiders’ is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are re…