The Guardian has seen video evidence of a female Afghan human rights activist being gang-raped and tortured in a Taliban jail by armed men. …
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Tobacco giant accused of ‘manipulating science’ to attract non-smokers
The tobacco company Philip Morris International has been accused of “manipulating science for profit” through funding research and advocacy work with scientists. Campaigners say…
View More Tobacco giant accused of ‘manipulating science’ to attract non-smokersLondoner continues epic trans-Africa run after release from South Sudan jail
A Ugandan-born Londoner on a 9,000-mile run from South Africa to London has been released from jail in South Sudan, his partner has told the…
View More Londoner continues epic trans-Africa run after release from South Sudan jailCampaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum
Pressure to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations is mounting as a new coalition has come together for the first time to fight for the…
View More Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentumFrom Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century
Africa has all the potential to meet pressing climate challenges with innovative solutions, according to one of the world’s renowned environmentalists. With its vast natural…
View More From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s centuryYazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close camps
The Iraqi government has been accused of making the survivors of the Sinjar massacre fear for their future once more, almost a decade after the…
View More Yazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close campsPeruvian soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in historic verdict
Ten soldiers have been found guilty at a court in Lima of crimes against humanity for rapes committed four decades ago during Peru’s civil war.…
View More Peruvian soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in historic verdict‘We all share the same pain’: can the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement rebuild after 7 October?
On the morning of 7 October, as news emerged of the Hamas attack on Israeli communities near the Gaza border, Naama Barak Wolfman joined thousands…
View More ‘We all share the same pain’: can the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement rebuild after 7 October?‘The cocaine superhighway’: how death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to Europe
A sign on the doorway said “For rent” and the house’s lights were out. But the assault team were convinced a group of armed gang…
View More ‘The cocaine superhighway’: how death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to EuropeUgandan oil pipeline protester allegedly beaten as part of ‘alarming crackdown’
A man campaigning against the controversial $5bn (£4bn) east African crude oil pipeline (EACOP) is recovering in hospital after an alleged beating by the Ugandan…
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