激動の東アジアニュースを各国のメディアからお伝えします
The death of a young chartered accountant has highlighted a work culture of overworked employees and bullying bossesFor the average Indian, the working week is now longer than ever – totalling almost 47 hours.According to recent labour data, India now …
続きを読むAfter huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stalled. But the new campaign is seen as a political move without resourcesAs a teenager, Tanu Bai would burn her hands while cooking but feel no p…
続きを読むWith no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural medics are using tele-ICU systems to save lives• Photographs by Elke Scholiers for the GuardianWhenever an ambulance arrived with a criticall…
続きを読むRegime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women’s role in vaccination driveAfghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security f…
続きを読むMore than one in five prisoners in Fuchū jail is 65 or over – and younger inmates get care qualifications to look after themWith its glass frontage and portico, Fuchū prison could be mistaken for a local government office. Inside, visitors enter an air…
続きを読むNational police agency says it is investigating 513 cases of deepfake pornography as a new scandal grips the countryThe anger was palpable. For the second time in just a few years, South Korean women took to the streets of Seoul to demand an end to sex…
続きを読むHeroin use has risen sharply across the country but in Pretoria, a programme of methadone and support is successfully helping people regain their livesIn the centre of the South African city of Pretoria, dozens of people mill around a dusty patch of la…
続きを読むReport reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rightsExtreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender…
続きを読むAfter video of incident causes online outrage, airline says girl was taken to lavatory with grandmother’s consentTwo women in China have been accused of child abuse after they separated a crying toddler from her grandmother and locked her in the toilet…
続きを読むDespite protests and laws, sexual violence remains pervasive. India’s misogynist patriarchal culture is holding women backWith a rape occurring every 16 minutes, violence is one of the biggest deterrents to women working in India. On the eve of India’s…
続きを読むThe rape-murder of a trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital has caused outrage across India. Here, her father recalls her urge to help others and their struggle to support her studiesThe father of the trainee doctor murdered during a rest break at a Kolk…
続きを読むWith plenty of sunlight to drive their pumps instead of costly diesel, harvesting salt costs a third of what it used to and has made life for workers much easierIn the expansive salt marshes of the Little Rann of Kutch the bleakness of the sunburnt, tr…
続きを読むAll hospital services except for emergency care to be shut down on Saturday amid outrage over Kolkata attackAll hospital services in India except for emergency care will shut down on Saturday as doctors escalate their protest over the rape and murder o…
続きを読むA Thousand Thorns is a project by photographer Deepti Asthana documenting women’s changing aspirations in rural India through the story of two young female forest guards in Rajasthan’s Thar desert. Theirs is a scenario playing out in millions of homes …
続きを読むSobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violenceThe household was fast asleep when the six men broke in. They sought out Sobia B…
続きを読む