Conflict and arms
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Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aid
Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rightsM…
- Conflict and arms, Global development, Global health, Health, Myanmar, Nursing, Royal College of Nursing, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
The Myanmar nurses dodging drones to graduate from a secret jungle school
This week, the first students completed a three-year degree course, ready to treat displaced people and pro-de…
- Afghanistan, Conflict and arms, Migration and development, Pakistan, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
‘Now they only deport’: Afghans trapped in Pakistan arrested and sent back after ‘open war’ breaks out
Journalists and activists who fled Taliban rule are living in fear as Pakistani police hunt and deport refugee…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Boko Haram, Children, Conflict and arms, Europe, Forced marriage, Global development, Global education, Israel, Lebanon, Mali, Middle East and North Africa, Niger, Nigeria, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Ukraine, World news
Airstrikes, banditry, drones and a ban on girls’ education: four teachers on educating students amid conflict
Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what …
- Asia Pacific, Cambodia, Conflict and arms, Global development, Human rights, Human trafficking, Laos, Law, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, Organised crime, Scams, South and Central Asia, Thailand, Torture, World news
Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such a…
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‘They told me that they’d hunt me down’: journalists on how they survive working in war zones
With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the wo…
- Conflict and arms, Global development, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war
The country’s drawn out conflict has seen children recruited as soldiers on all sides. At the age of 18, Anina…
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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…
- Africa, Conflict and arms, Europe, Global development, Middle East and North Africa, Myanmar, South and Central Asia, Ukraine, World news
World’s conflict zones increased by two-thirds in past three years, report reveals
Wars have spread and intensified, with far-reaching impacts on global economic growth and food security, accor…
- Conflict and arms, Global development, Internally displaced people, Law, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, South and Central Asia, War crimes, World news
Myanmar military kills dozens in heaviest airstrikes since 2021 coup
Ten children reportedly among those killed during intense aerial campaigns last monthMyanmar’s military has la…
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Children's rights, Conflict and arms, Education, Global development, Myanmar, South and Central Asia, World news
Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report
Analysis of imagery from conflict zones shows evidence of burned-out and flattened buildings, with long-term i…
- Afghanistan, Children, Conflict and arms, Europe, Family, Global development, Israel-Gaza war, Life and style, Russia, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Ukraine, World news
‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline
As many countries celebrate Father’s Day, four men share their love, fears and dreams for their children in Ga…
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Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels
Myanmar military has conscripted 1,000 Rohingya men and boys since February, with fears some are being used as…
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UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian sl…
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Ukraine and Myanmar make 2022 most violent year in a decade for medical staff
Report demands accountability for war crimes and singles out Russia for ‘mind-boggling’ targeting of hospitals…