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Rights and Freedom

A Guardian series reporting on human rights abuses around the world and elevating the voices of those fighting for justice.

Rights and freedom

  • Assad’s regime took my father. Normalising relations feels like an attempt to rewrite history

    Wafa Mustafa
    This weekend’s Arab League summit will embolden the regime to continue its crimes, including the forced disappearances of hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians
  • ‘We’re against LGBT’
    Erdoğan targets gay and trans people ahead of critical Turkish election

    The scant progress for human rights is in peril ahead of polls as president’s ‘family values’ rhetoric stokes culture war
  • The lawyer whose sex trafficking case against Instagram could spell trouble for big tech

    Annie McAdams represents clients who claim Meta’s products connect vulnerable people with sex buyers
  • ‘My time in the UK has been a disaster’
    Hongkongers fear deportation after years left in limbo

    Britain vowed to protect citizens of its former colony, but the Guardian has spoken to people stuck in temporary accommodation not knowing if they will be granted asylum
    • ‘We can’t remain silent’
      Journalists refuse to give up despite Taliban terror

    • Press freedom
      Bangladesh media in fear after PM’s ‘people’s enemy’ attack

    • ‘A nightmare I couldn’t wake up from’
      Half of Rana Plaza survivors unable to work 10 years after disaster

    • Meta
      How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

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Reporting Myanmar

  • ‘Is the world listening?’
    The poets challenging Myanmar’s military

    • Ready for war
      My journey from peaceful poet to revolutionary soldier

    • Kicking back at the regime: artists open another front in Myanmar war

    • Revolutionary roads
      How the army tried to crush Yangon’s most anti-coup district

    • Mothers of the Myanmar revolution
      ‘I worry about whether he has warm clothes’

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  • Howzat?!
    Why cricket means freedom for exiled young Syrians

     
    Life can be grim in a Beirut refugee camp for boys and girls who have known nothing but war in their homeland. But when plays begins on an oasis of green amid the concrete, they ‘let go of everything bad’
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Voices for justice

  • ‘They treated us like animals’
    Haitians angry and in despair at being deported from US

    • ‘I’m one of them’
      The FGM survivor providing a lifeline in Leeds

    • ‘History’s on our side’
      The Turkish women fighting femicide

    • ‘Collective strength’
      The LRA captive restoring dignity to survivors in Uganda

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Justice

  • Brazil hospital chain accused of hiding Covid deaths and giving unproven drugs

  • Kenya bans LGBTQ+ documentary for ‘promoting same-sex marriage’

  • ‘Living in a cave is no life’: Pakistani villagers trapped by Taliban and poverty

  • Les Hijabeuses: the female footballers tackling France’s on-pitch hijab ban

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Workers' rights

  • World Cup stadium workers ‘had their money stolen and lives ruined’, says rights group

  • Harmed by heat
    How rising temperatures threaten workers from Nicaragua to Nepal

    As scorching temperatures spread, the search for ways to protect against heat stress is becoming ever more urgent
    • Top fashion brands face legal challenge over garment workers’ rights in Asia

    • Petra Diamonds pays £4.3m to Tanzanians ‘abused’ by its contractors

    • ‘They stormed the ICU and beat the doctor’: health workers under attack

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Conflict

  • Inside Tigray
    ‘Bodies are being eaten by hyenas; girls of eight raped’

  • ‘It will be a catastrophe’: fate of Syria’s last aid channel rests in Russia’s hands

  • ‘One name in a long list’: the pointless death of another West Bank teenager

  • ‘Revolution dwells in the heart’: Myanmar’s poets cut down by the military

Opinion

  • Has the World Cup really improved workers’ rights in Qatar? Five experts give their verdict

    • I have spent a year helping people flee the Taliban: failure is traumatic, success bittersweet

      Ruchi Kumar
    • We fled the Taliban in chaos, shock and terror. A year later we have a new home and hope

      Zahra Joya
    • Embraced or pushed back: on the Polish border, sadly, not all refugees are welcome

      Lorenzo Tondo
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Investigations

  • UK sourced PPE from factories secretly using North Korean slave labour

  • EU border force 'complicit' in illegal campaign to stop refugees landing

  • 'We pick your food': migrant workers speak out from Spain's 'Plastic Sea'

  • Fashion's dirty secret: how sexual assault took hold in jeans factories

Explore

  • ‘They said: aren’t you that porn star?’
    The woman hunting down image-based abuse

    Mia Landsem, whose ex spread an intimate photo of her online, now spends hours each day helping others get images removed
  • ‘Shoot them’
    Indian state police accused of murdering Muslims and Dalits

  • ‘I couldn’t leave my son’
    Ukrainians going into the war zone

  • ‘I don’t know where to go’
    Uncertain fate of the women in Kabul’s shelters

  • In limbo
    Refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border – a photo essay

  • 'Policy of repression'
    Venezuelans despair at smears, stigmatization and arbitrary arrests

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