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Analysis: From Pakistan to the US, Australia to Germany, the cost of living is rising to new highs and causing new hardshipsUS inflation reaches 40-year high at 7.5%Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsAfter decades lurking in the …
Since recapturing Afghanistan, the Taliban have largely if inconsistently closed down girls’ schooling – but have found a new generation ready to fight for the right to studyWhen the Taliban reached Parveen Tokhi’s home province of Zabul in mid-August …
Glove manufacturer Supermax has repeatedly won NHS contracts during the pandemic, despite claims of forced labour. Now, a group of former workers are seeking justice“I don’t have any dreams for the future because every dream depends on money,” says Res…
With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, even from one anotherEarly one morning last February, a group of young people gathered on a street corner in Myanmar armed with brushes and bucke…
As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital’s streets are all that stand between their family and starvationAmid the roadside restaurants and bustling crowds in one of Kabul’s busiest mar…
Urgent protection for minority groups facing increased repression needed in crisis connected to escalating clashes across central Asian ex-Soviet region, say human rights groupsParents of men killed by Tajikistan forces have called on the international…
Urgent protection for minority groups facing increased repression needed in crisis connected to escalating clashes across central Asian ex-Soviet region, say human rights groupsParents of men killed by Tajikistan forces have called on the international…
Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young woman’s storyRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesIn the year since the 1 February coup, young people across Myanmar have risked their lives …
Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young woman’s storyRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesIn the year since the 1 February coup, young people across Myanmar have risked their lives …
Spurred on by military atrocities, young people are turning to armed struggle against the regime – leaving supportive but fearful families behindRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesWhen Peh Reh’s* mother, Mi Nya*, lost contact with him in Septembe…
Women required to attend separate classes and follow dress code at facilities in Kandahar and Helmand as they restart classes for first time since Taliban takeoverPublic universities in Kandahar and Helmand provinces in Afghanistan have reopened after …
Migrant workers employed at Expo 2020 allege confiscated passports, racial discrimination and withheld wagesSecurity guards, cleaners and hospitality staff at Dubai’s Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are allegedly working in highly abusive c…
Protests against the coup mean hospitals and schools are on the brink of collapse, while workers have left their homes to avoid arrest and interrogationRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesWhen hundreds of thousands of workers across the country wa…
Debate over treatment of people with mental illness revived as authorities launch investigationA video of a woman apparently locked against her will in a filthy shack has gone viral in China, prompting an investigation as well as a conversation about t…