Mona, 17, used to manage intense period pain by making hot drinks, swaddling herself in blankets and knocking back painkillers. Now, sheltering in a crowded…
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‘I can’t bear the pain’: grieving the lives lost to the Dominican Republic’s abortion ban
One of the walls in Alba Nely Peña’s front room is adorned with graduation photos of her children. She gave birth to three boys and…
View More ‘I can’t bear the pain’: grieving the lives lost to the Dominican Republic’s abortion banFight waste to fight hunger’: food banks embrace imperfection to feed millions in Brazil
About half a dozen men in hairnets busy themselves with crates of fresh produce outside a food depot in Rio de Janeiro’s northern suburbs. As…
View More Fight waste to fight hunger’: food banks embrace imperfection to feed millions in BrazilWhy Bangladesh is running out of options in the face of extreme weather
As far back as she can remember, Shahanaz Ali has been running from cyclones. “Moving constantly from one place to another is exhausting,” says Ali.…
View More Why Bangladesh is running out of options in the face of extreme weatherA year in the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake – a photo essay
The living and the dead will soon be side by side on the outskirts of Antakya, where new government housing under construction to house the…
View More A year in the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake – a photo essayInside the Darfur camp where a child dies every two hours
Everyone knows a family that has lost a child in Zamzam, a camp for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region. Hunger…
View More Inside the Darfur camp where a child dies every two hoursArmy bombings sow more terror in Darfur as rival force cements control
The bombing started at midnight. According to local residents, Sudanese army aircraft hit an industrial area in El Daein, the capital of East Darfur state,…
View More Army bombings sow more terror in Darfur as rival force cements controlThe Body Shop to cut 300 head office jobs and almost half of UK stores could close
The Body Shop is to cut 300 jobs at head office while nearly half of its 198 stores in the UK could close with the…
View More The Body Shop to cut 300 head office jobs and almost half of UK stores could closeEU policies partly to blame for 3,000 deaths in Mediterranean last year, say rights groups
Several groups running rescue missions in the Mediterranean are calling for a change in the EU’s policies, which they say are partly to blame for…
View More EU policies partly to blame for 3,000 deaths in Mediterranean last year, say rights groupsHouthi attacks in Red Sea having a ‘catastrophic’ effect on aid to Sudan
Attacks by Houthi forces against ships in the Red Sea are holding up shipments of vital aid to Sudan and driving up costs for cash-strapped…
View More Houthi attacks in Red Sea having a ‘catastrophic’ effect on aid to Sudan