Social exclusion
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Sex workers fighting for human rights among world’s most ‘at risk activists’
Exclusive: Front Line Defenders report says rights defenders working in sex industry face ‘targeted attacks’ a…
- Coronavirus, Gender, Global development, Health, India, Inequality, Infectious diseases, Menstruation, Poverty, Social exclusion, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
India’s Covid gender gap: women left behind in vaccination drive
Misinformation and access issues combined with patriarchal social norms fuelling disparity in distribution acr…
- Environment, Flooding, Global development, Homelessness, Housing, Land rights, Pakistan, Poverty, Protest, Social exclusion, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Where should we go?’: thousands left homeless as Karachi clears waterways
As Pakistan’s supreme court backs bulldozing of homes blamed for floods, critics say government has no proper …
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‘I want to give what I never had’: the trans mum taking in abandoned children in India
Manisha was shunned as a child by her family and ended up on the streets – now she dreams of opening an orphan…
- Animal welfare, Animals, Asia Pacific, Japan, Loneliness, Poverty, Social exclusion, Society, World news
Tiny Japanese home ‘filled’ with 164 starving dogs
Experts say extreme animal hoarding cases are linked to poverty, isolation and ageing populationHealth officia…
- Africa, Coronavirus outbreak, India, Nigeria, Social exclusion, Society, South Africa, South and Central Asia, World news
Whether in the UK or the developing world, we’re not all in coronavirus together
In the slums of Delhi or Lagos, social distancing is a dream while social exclusion is all too real and pernic…
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‘They allowed the perfect storm’: UN expert damns New Zealand’s housing crisis
Special rapporteur says successive governments have contributed to what she called a ‘human rights crisis’When…
- Digital media, India, Media, Membership, Poverty, Social exclusion, Society, South and Central Asia, Technology, US news, World news
Reporting on automated poverty: how tech is punishing the poor
Guardian US reporters reflect on our recent series examining the shadowy emergence of the ‘digital welfare sta…
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Fights, festivals, fear: Sohrab Hura’s angst-ridden India
With his photographs of out-of-control hedonism, punch-ups and blood-letting rituals, Hura captures a nation i…