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  • A raised fist can be seen against a background of protestors.

    The Black feminist movement has a history of standing up to fascism. Now we are inviting others to join us in the fight

    Hakima Abbas
    The Trump administration is working overtime to intimidate funders from supporting racial and gender justice but this is the time for everyone to do what we can with what we have
  • A puppeteer with a lifesize gazelle puppet in front of a crowd of spectators

    Climate crisis
    Lifesize herd of puppet animals begins climate action journey from Africa to Arctic Circle

    The Herds project from the team behind Little Amal will travel 20,000km taking its message on environmental crisis across the world
  • A man in a blue shirt sits in a field

    Malawi
    A friend killed, and inquiries shelved: life fighting the stigma of albinism in Malawi

    People with albinism are often attacked and even killed for body parts. As elections approach, activist Tonney Mkwapatira fears the situation may get worse
  • Image of a person seen through a thermal imaging camera.

    Infectious diseases
    Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops

    As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science’s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases
    • A group of people in white coats wave small Cuban flags in front of a banner in Spanish that reads 'Thank you Cuba!'

      Emboldened by Trump, the ‘liberal’ UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses

      Kenneth Mohammed
    • 10 15 Under Fire 5 Basel Al Maqosui. Untitled, 2024 Exhibition of four leading Gazan artists entitled “Under Fire” at the Darat al Funun in Amman, Jordan

      Art
      ‘My work is a scream for help’: Gaza’s artists document life under fire

    • Two men wrestle in the middle of a crowd of people, who are cheering them on

      Photography
      Sudan’s Nuba wrestling: a celebration of strength at a time of conflict – in pictures

    • An aerial view showing the outline of a large settlement divided into zone, with smoke drifting across much of the picture and a bright area of flames just right of centre.

      Sudan
      ‘They were chanting as they killed people in their homes’: survivors describe attack on Zamzam camp

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Explore

  • A woman holds up a book while another woman screams into it. They are surrounded by women with pro-choice placards.

    A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

    Last week, anti-choice campaigners emboldened by current US politics met in New York at the same time as UN delegates gathered to address the widespread inequalities women face. The battle to protect rights has never felt more urgent
  • A man and a woman in white coats in a medical lab

    ‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa

  • Two people sort through piles of discarded clothes in the Atacama desert

    Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

  • Lots of figures drawn in bold white lines, showing the terrorof people fleeing attack and carrying their children, goods and animals

    ‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin

  • A huge number of South Asians are seen walking along between shacks, vehicles and temporary lighting and electricity poles

    The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees

  • A young woman and man in military uniforms standing among trees and shrubs

    ‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war

  • How Karachi’s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan

  • ‘We can talk through our art’: the Malian festival uniting the Sahel’s people

  • Snakes, ‘border madness’ and solo trips: five Nigerian female travellers on their top tips and trickiest moments

  • ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts

  • ‘Shifting the shame’: the young gang-rape survivor spreading awareness on sexual violence

  • Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma

  • ‘If you don’t get early years right, children are unlikely to catch up’: why South Africa is trying to reboot its school system

  • How not to be deported: India’s nurses seeking work abroad learn how to migrate safely

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Rights and freedom

  • Narayan Kumar Subedi showing a photo of his son on his mobile

    Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US

  • A hand holding a card with a prayer in Spanish and a photo of a priest

    ‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina

  • A woman dressed in black holds a screaming baby who has feeding tubes attached to her

    Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics

  • A woman in a full black chador-like veil holding a baby, enters a mud-walled compound with a man following holding a box

    ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies

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Sudan

  • Awadin Mohammed, 10, lies on a hospital bed

    Atrocities mount daily. Promised aid does not arrive. Why has the west turned its back on Sudan?

  • A wrecked office with smashed furniture and debris strewn on the ground

    New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

  • A bloodied and torn mattress in front of what appear to be graves with a breeze block at each end

    ‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

  • A woman with a covered head and mouth looks directly at the camera. Behind her another woman sits on a bed comforting a small child, while another woman sits beside her, looking towards the camera.

    Young, old, refugees and returnees: thousands fleeing violence cross border into South Sudan

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Opinion

  • In this Feb. 9, 2018 photo, a Displaced woman holds her baby at a camp, Abyan, Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

    The world is missing out on the real Yemen: we are not just war, we are culture, beauty and love

    Nada Al-Saqaf
  • A woman sits along the broken steps of a partially-collapsed building destroyed by bombardment during the May 2021 confliict between Hamas and Israel, next to a graffiti mural depicting a girl with an English caption below reading "I've dream", in Gaza City on 12 August 2021.

    Trump is tearing up US women’s rights. The message from your sisters in the Arab world? Don’t give up: resistance works

    Hibaaq Osman
  • A man reads a newspaper reporting the impact of the US government aid freeze on Kenya and the rest of Africa.

    Those of us who rely on aid must accept the new reality and shape our own destiny

    Janet Mawiyoo
  • Three women in saris with goods balanced on their head waiting to cross a road as a truck and tuktuk speed past them

    If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
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In pictures

  • A middle-aged Indian woman in salwar kamise poses in a hallway with three smaller embroidered figures of women stitched into the photograph

    Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’

    One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditional needlework to embellish portraits of themselves
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Southern frontlines

  • A Mexican man in a T-shirt in front of a blue wall with a barred up window

    He fought to stop the forest being felled. The price was 30 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit

  • A line of people wearing wide-brimmed hats use small sickles to cut a short crop with pinkish flowers

    ‘Cañahua chose me’: can an ancient relative of quinoa revive rural Bolivia’s economy?

  • An older man leans against a pillar on a veranda overlooking the water, with baskets of fish loaded next to him

    ‘No fish, no money, no food’: Colombia’s stilt people fight to save their wetlands

  • Three men stand in a clearing next to some freshly-felled and split tree trunks.

    Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging

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Explainers

  • Members of the Mandalay People's Defence Forces (MDY-PDF) training at a camp in an undisclosed location in Myanmar's northern Shan State.

    Myanmar civil war: a quick guide to the conflict

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

    How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?

  • A staff member sanitises a bed at the MSF cholera treatment unit in Gurei, Juba, South Sudan.

    Dirty water and endless wars: why cholera outbreaks are on the rise again

  • Flowers next to a homemade sign saying RIP USAid, 1961-2025 laid outside the door of the USAid building

    Explainer
    How will Trump and Musk’s freeze on USAid affect millions around the world?

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Multimedia

Multimedia

  • Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic
  • Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips on a boat
  • Shireen Abu Akleh
  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary
  • Still image from documentary, The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan
  • Chris is a reproductive health advocate in the Phillippines

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