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Thaslima Begum

Thaslima Begum is an award-winning journalist with a focus on women, conflict and human rights

July 2024

  • A Palestinian girl stands at a tent in a camp sheltering displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis.

    Middle East crisis live
    Close to 40,000 Palestinians killed by military offensive in Gaza, health ministry says – as it happened

  • PIC23 PIC23: From left to right, 17-year-old Ahmed Shahtout, 19-year-old Nour Shahtout, 57-year-old father Bassim Shahtout, 47-year-old mother Reem Shahtout, and 13-year-old Muhammed Shahtout. The family fled their home in Tel El-Hawa, Gaza, in October 2024 after it was bombed by the IDF and evacuated to Egypt in March, where they now live. (Hamada Elrasam for The Guardian)

    ‘Life has come to a standstill’: the Palestinian refugees struggling to survive in Egypt

June 2024

  • A picture of a young girl being held by a woman and a man, who are both kissing her

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline

    Four men share their love, dreams and fears for their children in Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Sudan

May 2024

  • Dr Omar El-Taji and other medics attending to a patient on the floor.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Nothing justifies what we have witnessed here’: the doctors returning home from Gaza

  • Sayed Ahmed with his arm around his wife Amena Khatun by the Rupsha River in Khulna, Bangladesh

    A common condition
    ‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’: the deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh

April 2024

  • Sundarbans 22 __HL4366 Reshma Khatun, 38, stands on the riverbank outside her house in Koyra, southwestern Bangladesh, which lies opposite the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, where her husband Abdul Gazi was killed in a tiger attack. Location: Koyra, Khulna, Bangladesh. Farzana Hossen/The Guardian (April 2024) __HL4239 The boats of local fisherman anchored on the shore of the Shakbaria river in the village of Koyra, located opposite the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. Climate change is causing disturbances in fishing patterns resulting in disastrous consequences for fishing communities. Location: Shakbaria river, Koyra, Khulna, Bangladesh. Farzana Hossen/The Guardian (April 2024)

    ‘Husband eaters’: the double loss of Bangladesh’s ostracised tiger widows

  • A woman in a pink and orange sari uses a bucket to collect water from a pond

    A common condition
    ‘Headaches, organ damage and even death’: how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk

March 2024

  • A male Asian elephant with tusks stands in a road through jungle as a rickshaw skirts around it and others drivers wait for it to pass

    The age of extinction
    Death tolls mount as elephants and people compete for land in Sri Lanka

    Conservationists plead for coexistence as shrinking forests drive conflict, with elephant deaths doubling in a decade

February 2024

  • A young south Asian woman in a shalwar kameez stands in front of a metal shack with boats in the background

    Why Bangladesh is running out of options in the face of extreme weather

    The south Asian country is a world leader in climate adaptation, but without more funding the country will struggle to protect its people, a report warns
  • Motaz Azaiza standing on a near-deserted street, wearing a press jacket and helmet, holding his camera.

    Rights and freedom
    Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza: ‘The ghosts of Gaza follow me everywhere’

    Two weeks after being evacuated, the 25-year-old Palestinian – who has amassed 18.5m followers on Instagram – sat down with the Guardian to share his experiences of the war
  • Six middle-aged women pictured in their homes

    ‘Me and my menopause’: a view from women around the world

    Millions of women are being let down by lack of support during and after menopause. We asked six, from Brazil to Bangladesh, to share their stories of fighting stigma, dealing with symptoms and supporting others

January 2024

  • Kana Verheul, centre, with her niece, right, and her long-lost sister Taslima, left.

    Bangladesh: the adoption crisis
    The stranger across from me was my sister: how one adoptee uncovered a tragic past

  • Nur Jahan’s faded image of her son, taken from her when he was six months old.

    Bangladesh: the adoption crisis
    ‘I was told I could visit. Then she went missing’: the Bangladeshi mothers who say their children were adopted without consent

  • Black and white photographs of Bangladeshi families and children

    Bangladesh: the adoption crisis
    Bangladesh launches investigation into children ‘wrongly’ adopted overseas

  • People lie on mattresses in a crowded corridor with drips on stands in the middle. Most of the people are children and women

    ‘Deadliest outbreak ever seen’: climate crisis fuels Bangladesh’s worst dengue epidemic

December 2023

  • Sonia Guajajara wearing a blue Indigenous headdress

    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2023

  • A middle-aged woman in a shalwar kameez [trousers and tunic] standing outside a corrugated iron-walled shack. A clay oven is in the gloomy interior

    Rights and freedom
    Woman making Christmas jumpers for UK turns to sex work to pay bills

November 2023

  • Police holding batons run towards a crowd of people standing by a roadside in Bangladesh

    Rights and freedom
    Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats

    Workers describe hands and arms being targeted in ‘merciless’ beatings as protests over low wages turn increasingly violent in Dhaka
  • Bangladeshi security personnel charge to disperse garment workers protesting in Gazipur on 9 November 2023, after the Minimum Wage Board authority declared the minimum wage of 12,500 taka (£92) for garment workers.

    Rights and freedom
    Bangladeshi woman killed after police open fire on protesting garment workers

    Employees making clothes for fast-fashion brands have been demonstrating against a new minimum salary of £92 a month
  • Soldiers parade during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the country's Union Day in Naypyidaw in 2022.

    Rights and freedom
    Myanmar’s military commanders responsible for rape and torture – war crimes report

    Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearances
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