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Having tried more than 1,000 wildlife crime cases, Gladys Kamasanyu is changing attitudes to animal rights and the ‘cruel’ trade in rhino horns, pangolins and ivory
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Visitors to Asia’s largest tulip garden in Srinagar, Kashmir, do not see the toil by low-paid workers that lies behind the spectacle
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Museveni says homosexuality is ‘danger to procreation of human race’ at Entebbe conference hosted by US anti-LGBTQ+ hate group
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As the birds’ habitats dwindle, Rakesh Khatri is on a mission to build nests and teach others how to do the same
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Médecins Sans Frontières operations threatened by armed incidents and shootouts at its hospitals, but closure would be a ‘catastrophe’ for Haitians
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Morphine was first introduced to the country 30 years ago, but as the burden of cancer increases, thousands of people still lack access to even basic treatment or pain relief
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The Caribbean nation has led the way in taking psychiatric patients out of institutions, but funding challenges remain
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Many feel the Ethiopia’s slave-owning traditions, which lasted into the last century, do not align with the country’s modern image of itself
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Picturesque Nzulezo attracts a steady stream of tourists to Lake Tadane. But the waters that draws visitors are the very reason school staff are reluctant to stay
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Progress in key areas has stalled because of Covid, conflict and the climate crisis, but peaceful nations are performing better
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In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told
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Senior family judge hears charity’s urgent bid to have ‘world’s most vulnerable children’ declared wards of court
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Fifa and Qatar claimed the World Cup would transform workers’ rights, but 100 days on from the final, the Guardian has found that for some it has become worse
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UN calls on Taliban to reveal whereabouts of Matiullah Wesa, head of Pen Path, taken into detention by gunmen from outside a mosque after prayers
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The Sierra Leone capital’s colonial-era asylum has modernised, offering psychotherapy, yoga and basketball as well as drugs – and has thrown away its shackles
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India’s severe shortage of mental health professionals and treatment funding leaves many patients without options. But a pioneering programme is working to get lives back on track
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Only 15% of photojournalists are women. What We See, the inaugural book by the nonprofit group Women Photograph, features 100 images spanning 50 years, on conflict, resistance, family or friendship published in the belief that ‘ … until we have balanced, representative reporting, the camera cannot offer a mirror to our global society’
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