カテゴリー: Activism
We spoke to protesters in Togo, Kenya, Nepal, Madagascar and Morocco about how their actions helped shape the world in 2025Mass protests in Nepal and Madagascar toppled both governments this year, even when the young people at the forefront of the demo…
The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with herI am at the shed where Nobel laureate Malala Y…
Five female activists talk about their lives since Sheikh Hasina was ousted – and how the country can secure lasting change for women’s rightsOn 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister of Bangladesh and fled the country, the culmination…
Ziauddin Yousafzai and Ranjit appear in a new film in which they discuss fatherhood, courage, gender justice and bringing up strong daughtersThe day Ranjit’s daughter was born, he distributed sweets to the entire village – not just because he was thril…
‘Teacher Li’ is among the most prolific sources of unfiltered information from behind China’s Great Firewall. But an attempt to monetise it has proven controversialOn Monday, two parallel visions of Chinese activism appeared on X. One was a video showi…
Readers Aaron Tovish, Diana Francis and Caroline Westgate respond to our editorial about arms control to prevent nuclear warThank you for addressing this existential threat to our world (The Guardian view on arms control: essential to prevent the total…
Released from prison in 2020 after being jailed for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’, he became increasingly desperate to leave – before seizing his opportunityAs he trekked up the lush mountain range on China’s border with Laos, Lu Yuyu felt e…
From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave individuals that gave us hopeNine years ago, Cecilia Llusco was one of 11 Indigenous women who made it to the summit of the 6,088 metre-high Huayn…
Made under dangerous conditions, this documentary charts how the lives of three women were turned upside down by Afghanistan’s overthrow in 2021Afghan film-maker Sahra Mani, creator of the rape-survivor documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me from 2018, b…
Case raises questions about complicity of western financial institutions in persecution of Chinese government criticsTwo exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists have been blocked from accessing their pensions, depriving them of tens of thousands of US…
NGO leaders and technical experts who helped secure western aid for official shift to clean energy are being locked up now that they are no longer neededLess than 12 months ago G7 countries agreed to provide billions of dollars to help Vietnam ditch co…
Hong’s three-year sentence is the latest in a string of convictions for environmental campaigners in the countryA leading Vietnamese climate activist has been jailed for tax evasion, the latest environmentalist put behind bars by the country’s communis…
State bill would address trauma by amending housing, labor and education codes to explicitly prohibit discrimination, leaders sayCalifornia could soon become the first state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste, propelling a growing civil rights…
Huang Xueqin, a feminist who was due to move to UK, and Wang Jianbing charged with ‘inciting subversion of state power’The trial of two prominent activists detained since 2021 has begun in secret in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, in a case that has att…
Anam Abbas’s documentary records the preparations for and dangerous execution of a countrywide rally against patriarchal violenceChronicling the weeks leading up to – and the day of – the 2020 edition of the “aurat march”, a multi-city women’s demonstr…