Activism
- Activism, Africa, Global development, Kenya, Madagascar, Middle East and North Africa, Morocco, Nepal, Protest, South and Central Asia, Togo, World news, Young people, Youth unemployment
What drove gen Z protests that brought down governments and called out corruption? Five activists explain
We spoke to protesters in Togo, Kenya, Nepal, Madagascar and Morocco about how their actions helped shape the …
- Activism, Afghanistan, Education, Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, World news
‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her
The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguin…
- Activism, Bangladesh, Garment workers, Global development, Indigenous peoples, Life and style, Muhammad Yunus, Protest, Sexual violence, Sheikh Hasina, Society, South and Central Asia, Transgender, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Because of women it became a people’s revolution’: what has changed one year on from Bangladesh’s student uprising?
Five female activists talk about their lives since Sheikh Hasina was ousted – and how the country can secure l…
- Activism, Afghanistan, Culture, Family, Father's Day, Feminism, Film, Gender, Global development, India, Life and style, Malala Yousafzai, Sexual violence, Short films, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’
Ziauddin Yousafzai and Ranjit appear in a new film in which they discuss fatherhood, courage, gender justice a…
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Chinese activist Teacher Li’s memecoin launch divides dissident community
‘Teacher Li’ is among the most prolific sources of unfiltered information from behind China’s Great Firewall. …
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Working on a world free of nuclear arms | Letters
Readers Aaron Tovish, Diana Francis and Caroline Westgate respond to our editorial about arms control to preve…
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‘I was very lucky’: activist and blogger Lu Yuyu on escaping China
Released from prison in 2020 after being jailed for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’, he became increa…
- Activism, Africa, Americas, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Conflict and arms, Cycling, Disability, Ethiopia, Gaza, Global development, Human rights, Iran, Israel-Gaza war, Ivory Coast, Journalist safety, Kenya, Law, LGBTQ+ rights, Media, Middle East and North Africa, Mountaineering, Myanmar, Nigeria, Palestinian territories, Prisons, Rohingya, Society, South and Central Asia, Sport, Uganda, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part one
From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave indi…
- Activism, Afghanistan, Culture, Documentary films, Film, Global development, Malala Yousafzai, Protest, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Bread & Roses review – Afghan women reveal crushing reality of Taliban rule
Made under dangerous conditions, this documentary charts how the lives of three women were turned upside down …
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Exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists blocked from accessing pensions
Case raises questions about complicity of western financial institutions in persecution of Chinese government …
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‘They challenged the Communist monopoly’: Vietnam regime turns on its climate champions
NGO leaders and technical experts who helped secure western aid for official shift to clean energy are being l…
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Vietnam jails leading climate activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong for tax evasion
Hong’s three-year sentence is the latest in a string of convictions for environmental campaigners in the count…
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‘Once we win California, the nation is next’: what a caste discrimination ban means for Americans
State bill would address trauma by amending housing, labor and education codes to explicitly prohibit discrimi…
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Trial of Chinese #MeToo journalist and labour rights activist begins in secret
Huang Xueqin, a feminist who was due to move to UK, and Wang Jianbing charged with ‘inciting subversion of sta…
- Activism, Culture, Documentary films, Feminism, Film, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Women, World news
This Stained Dawn review – Pakistani feminists’ courageous fight for their rights
Anam Abbas’s documentary records the preparations for and dangerous execution of a countrywide rally against p…