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UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

Unctad says many countries targeted with high tariff rates are unlikely to be a threat to USBusiness live – latest updatesThe UN’s trade and development arm, Unctad, is calling on Donald Trump to exempt the world’s poorest and smallest countries from “…

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The Guardian view on Myanmar, four years on: the army unleashed terror, but the people are defiant | Editorial

The junta’s brutality has failed to secure victory in the civil war, but is devastating the countryMyanmar’s coup must have looked like an easy win to the generals, given their long record of crushing dissent. Their grudging experiment with limited dem…

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What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?

Activists hope a change in international law could help to address the intensifying erosion of women and girls’ rights in AfghanistanRead more: Afghan exiles on the Taliban’s gender apartheidOver the past three years, the world has watched in horror as…

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Afghan women fight to hold Taliban to account over gender apartheid

What women face in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity, say activists pushing for recognition by UN Explainer: What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?When Sima Samar and other Afghan women came up with the term “gender apart…

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‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public

New vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UNNew Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human right…

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China’s deadly divide-and-rule tactics in Myanmar risk shock waves across region | Simon Tisdall

Far from acting as a broker, Beijing is playing both sides in a state torn by brutality and chaosThings fall apart, if you let them – and ethnically, religiously, ideologically fractured Myanmar, formerly Burma, has never been a model of harmonious, in…

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