カテゴリー: Social exclusion
After 15 years campaigning, Satya Naresh believes it’s time for government action to stop the custom that causes a woman to die every hour through murder or suicideFor more than a decade, Satya Naresh has been trying to persuade India’s men to stop a w…
Exclusive: Front Line Defenders report says rights defenders working in sex industry face ‘targeted attacks’ around the world‘I’m scared of being killed’: sex worker activists speak outSex worker activists are among the most at risk defenders of human …
Misinformation and access issues combined with patriarchal social norms fuelling disparity in distribution across most statesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDeep-rooted structural inequalities and patriarchal values are to b…
As Pakistan’s supreme court backs bulldozing of homes blamed for floods, critics say government has no proper plans for residentsMaqsooda Bibi, 62, did not know the house she had lived in all her life would be demolished, forcing her whole family to be…
Manisha was shunned as a child by her family and ended up on the streets – now she dreams of opening an orphanage When Manisha walks into her rented room, crestfallen at having earned little money at work, her children rush to the door and cluster arou…
Experts say extreme animal hoarding cases are linked to poverty, isolation and ageing populationHealth officials in Japan have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house, in the latest case of animal hoarding that experts say is linked to pover…
In the slums of Delhi or Lagos, social distancing is a dream while social exclusion is all too real and perniciousSee all of our coronavirus coverage‘The virus does not discriminate,” suggested Michael Gove after both Boris Johnson and the health secre…
Special rapporteur says successive governments have contributed to what she called a ‘human rights crisis’When Leilani Farha touches down in a new city, the first thing the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing does is look up.In Melbo…
Guardian US reporters reflect on our recent series examining the shadowy emergence of the ‘digital welfare state’ A sea change is under way in governments worldwide, and no one is talking about it. Algorithms and artificial intelligence are taking over…
With his photographs of out-of-control hedonism, punch-ups and blood-letting rituals, Hura captures a nation in the grip of an angry new nationalism Sohrab Hura’s photobook, The Coast, begins with a fantastical short story written by him. It features M…