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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

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  • A woman in a burqa

    Hundreds of cases of femicide recorded in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover are ‘tip of the iceberg’

    Analysis on third anniversary of seizure of power finds regime officials implicated in more than half of reported incidents of gender-based violence
  • A group of police officers stand in a road

    Iran
    Iranian woman reportedly paralysed in shooting over alleged hijab law violation

    Arezoo Badri was shot as police attempted to pull her over in the northern city of Noor
  • Iraqi women protest against changes to the law that would allow underage marriage, in Tahrir Square, central Baghdad, 8 August 2024.

    Iraq
    Draft Iraqi law allowing 9-year-olds to marry would ‘legalise child rape’, say activists

    Opponents fear proposed bill could allow girls as young as nine to marry, erode women’s rights and give greater powers to clerics
  • Women with make-up on their faces in the form of cuts and bruises hold placards inscriptions in Ukrainian reading "No bouquet of roses will help to forgive, because flowers can also be brought to the grave...", "Beating has nothing to do with love". Lviv, Ukraine

    Ukraine
    ‘Can I complain while we’re at war?’: Ukraine’s domestic violence dilemma

    Nearly 300,000 cases were registered last year, but victims are reluctant to come forward where servicemen are involved
    • four people in black police uniform stand side-by-side in front of a mural

      Venezuela
      ‘A climate of terror’: Maduro cracks down on Venezuelans protesting contested election win

    • A young man in T-shirt and shorts with prosthetic legs stands in a city square in central Kyiv, Ukraine

      Disability
      ‘This is also about love!’: the Ukrainian disability campaigner on the brink of reality TV stardom

    • Devi Khadka, holding up her hand among a group of women in the documentary film Devi.

      Nepal
      Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka

    • A woman paints another woman's fingernails

      Taliban
      ‘They can stone us and flog us – I will keep using makeup’: why women risk everything in Afghanistan’s secret salons

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Multimedia

  • Fawzia, Manahel and Maryam al-Otaibi.

    The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence – podcast

  • New Rwandans, from left, Yvan Kambari, Esther Iranzi and

    ‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’: the new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures

  • Motaz Azaiza standing among smoking rubble

    Motaz Azaiza: capturing Israel’s offensive on Gaza from the inside – in pictures

  • Hazar stands outside a collapsed apartment building where her family used to live in Antakya.

    A year in the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake – a photo essay

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Spotlight

  • An illustration featuring European landmarks such as Big Ben, the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa

    How big is Europe’s cocaine problem – and what is the human cost?

  • Cécile Kohler appears on iran tv wearing a headscarf whilst delivering a forced confession

    ‘I saw my sister forced to say she was a spy on Iranian TV. It was the worst day of my life’

  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

    ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters?

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river

    Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?

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Explore

  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk

  • Women from Geneina in a refugee camp in Adré, Chad, in November.

    Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda: the man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence

  • A placard of the Ghanaian flag above its coat of arms saying "queer Ghanaian lives matter" attached to railings outside a building

    Men enthusiastically express their heterosexuality in Ghana, so why is being queer so unacceptable?

    Elliot Kwabena Akosa
  • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

    Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

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