Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children
An Afghan woman on life under the Taliban
Now living in comparative freedom in Iran, 26-year-old Mahtab Eftekhar describes facing motherhood at 12 and explains why seeking justice for other women means she no longer fears death
Fair Access
Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals
Exclusive: MSF calls for transparency after its bill for a trial of TB treatment came to a fraction of the billions claimed by pharmaceutical companies
Rapunzel reimagined
The women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection
And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities
Burkina Faso
Soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group
Human Rights Watch demands investigation into killings in two villages just weeks after Russian troops fly in, amid intensifying conflict
‘Every day I cry’
50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system
Iran
Women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown
Food insecurity
Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows
Amnesty report
UK accused of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
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Built on sand: can Egypt’s new seaside city protect the country from war at its borders?
Ras el–Hekma is part of a $60bn package to help the economy withstand the impact of conflict in Gaza, but critics fear the money will entrench a corrupt, oppressive regime
The Hindu caretaker and his mosque: a symbol of harmony amid India’s religious discord
Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library
‘Pregnancy is not a disease’: why do so many women die giving birth in Nigeria?
‘We searched for ladies over 70’: on the trail of Jordan’s forgotten folk music
‘We would not survive without coffee’: how rules made in Europe put Ethiopian farmers at risk
The suitcase-sized kit helping to rid the Philippines of one of history’s great killers
Dismay in Addis Ababa as ‘the soul of the city’ is razed for development
‘There are children here who do not want to be black’: one woman’s bid to save Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican museum
‘Headaches, organ damage and even death’: how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk
Having the right glasses could boost earning power by a third, Bangladesh study shows
South Africans take on big pharma for access to ‘miracle’ cystic fibrosis drug
Men enthusiastically express their heterosexuality in Ghana, so why is being queer so unacceptable?
Elliot Kwabena Akosa
Unfair & Lovely: the Bollywood film shining a light on dark-skin discrimination
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Cars before people: how chaotic, polluted Dhaka is failing its elderly citizens
If a diabetes policy of diet and exercise keeps failing, is it time for a new approach?
Amy McLennan
Study: ‘gamechanger’ diabetes drugs cost up to 400 times more than needed
Calls for a global fund to tackle air pollution, killer of 7m a year
‘Life is meaningless’
Despair for Rohingya refugees as chronic illness blights camps
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In pictures
‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’: the new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures
In Kigali last year, French photographer Julien Daniel collected testimonies of some of the city’s young people born since the Rwanda genocide and who have grown up knowing only one leader
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