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  • A woman with three small children huddle by a fire in a metal container amid rubble in a refugee camp

    Middle East
    ‘Almost unparalleled suffering’ in Gaza as UN says nearly 70% of those killed are women and children

    Jan Egeland, head of Norwegian Refugee Council, calls for immediate ceasefire, release of hostages and peace process to start
  • Three pictures of a woman walking down a street in her underwear as others, including veiled women, look on

    Iran
    Fears grow that woman arrested for undressing in Iran could be tortured in psychiatric unit

    Protesters and political prisoners are being drugged, tortured and beaten in state-run institutions, say rights groups
  • Four children walk along a dried up river in the Amazon

    Climate crisis
    Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report

    Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says Unicef
  • Seven large flower sculptures are seen in front of the pyramids of Giza

    Egypt
    Giant flowers, a buried chariot and temples in the sand: the art show in the shadow of Giza pyramids

    Egypt hopes the Forever is Now exhibition of contemporary artists, now in its fourth year, will bring even more visitors to the Unesco heritage site
    • A group of women wearing white scarves and carrying flags

      War crimes
      Rounded up, massacred and posted on social media: can Ethiopia bring justice for atrocities in Tigray?

    • A boy holds a no smacking sign

      Children
      Eight countries pledge to ban corporal punishment in ‘fundamental shift’ for children

    • A soldier with a heavy machine gun in front of a blue and white Somalian flag

      Debt relief
      US cancels $1.1bn of Somalia’s loans in ‘historic’ financial agreement

    • A group of women in pink prison tracksuits adjust their volleyball net in the Ana Maria Campos II state prison in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

      Women behind the lens
      Capturing the ‘eternal days’ of female inmates in Venezuela

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Explore

  • Cezar Mahumane diving

    ‘People did not go quietly’: divers explore wreck of 18th-century slave ship where mutiny took place

    Black archaeologists join team investigating off the coast of Mozambique as part of global project to identify and tell stories of wrecked ships involved in transatlantic slave trade
  • Soman Rai preaches his anti-abortion message to women at a church in Nepal.

    ‘One-man anti-abortion army’: shadow of US global gag rule looms over Nepal’s family planning services

  • A woman wearing a blue Unicef T-shirt gives an oral vaccine to children sitting on a bench under some trees

    The essential ingredient of any vaccination programme? Women

    Sania Nishtar and Svenja Schulze
  • A smiling South African woman stands before a field of cabbages and other crops

    Africa’s small-scale revolution against big agriculture: five farmers talk greener, better food

  • Joy Eseoghene Odiete, known as Jodie, with some other mums and special-needs children.

    ‘I don’t want to hide my son’: the Nigerian singer helping mothers find pride in their children with special needs

  • An African man in a bow tie and suit sits at a grand piano with his eyes closed as an audience listens

    Musical journey: lessons begin after piano finally arrives in Ethiopia

  • The best fashion statement you can make this season? Buy pre-loved

    Halima Begum

  • ‘Many are obliged to sleep with the foreman’: Bolivia’s female builders square up to an abusive system

  • I was forced to have sex or I would not eat. Then I found a way to escape my traffickers

    Gift*

  • ‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit

  • A teenage bride wed for a record price: the ‘marriage competition’ that divided a nation

  • ‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027

  • The world is facing an antibiotic emergency: a data-led plan of action is needed now

    Sally Davies

  • Growing a ‘word forest’: the Kenyan teacher trying to save her language from extinction

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Rights and freedom

  • Construction workers in UAE

    Migrant workers exposed to deadly 45C temperatures in Gulf – report

  • An image of a young woman is held

    A ninth woman has died reporting on the Ukraine conflict. Russia’s war on journalists must end

    Kiran Nazish
  • Officials stand in a line in front of huge letters that spell 'Jeddah' and behind a sign whihc reads 'Growing. Together' and gives the official bid url and displays the Saudi 2034 and Fifa logos.

    Saudi Arabia World Cup bid report accused of ‘whitewashing’ rights abuses

  • Alina Gorshenina looks off to the side as she sits at a table in the patio area of a cafe-bar

    ‘They want to show no one can escape’: how the long arm of Russia is reaching out for Putin critics in exile

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Sudan

  • El Fasher refugees at the Adré camp

    Despair in Chad camps as violence and hunger in Sudan drive 25,000 across border in a week

  • SUDAN-CONFLICT-POLITICS<br>Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on Army Day in Gadaref on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Sudan needs an exceptional humanitarian endeavour to end its horrific civil war

    Mukesh Kapila
  • A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp

    Sudan peace talks
    Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

  • Recurring Floods In South Sudan Displace Refugees And Host Communities<br>BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN - NOVEMBER 28: A group of women walk along a dyke protecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and their host community, from further flooding on November 28, 2023 in Bentiu, South Sudan. Climate change has divided South Sudan into land that is experiencing unprecedented flooding or drought, with record flooding creating widespread displacement, the destruction of livelihoods and the loss of arable land which all contribute to rising hunger and cases of malnutrition. The ongoing war in Sudan has caused displacement of over 3.3 million people, some redirected refugees travelling back to South Sudan. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

    Climate crisis
    A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?

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A common condition

  • A woman wearing a face mask and a white laboratory coat holds up two pipettes as another researcher looks on

    Healthier rice variety could counter rise in diabetes, Philippine scientists say

  • A man seen from above, eating a bowl of instant noodles at a rough table covered with sackcloth

    Time for a noodle tax? Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action

  • A medical worker guides a patient as they walk in a hospital ward

    As a cancer care expert, my fears over my own diagnosis run deeper than just curing the disease

    Jeff Dunn
  • 2024 оны нэгдүгээр сарын 4. Хавдарын үндэсний төв. ГЭРЭЛ ЗУРГИЙГ Б.БЯМБА-ОЧИР/MPA Image from an interview at the National Cancer Center, Mongolia

    Mongolia’s ambitious programme to tackle cancer death rates reaches 40% of population

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In pictures

  • A black man in a black suit, tie and sunglasses, and with a serious demeanour, stands at a gate on the outskirts of an airport

    Forced into exile: the Chagossians scattered in Mauritius and Britain

    Decades after it forced out the inhabitants, the UK is relinquishing sovereignty over the remote Chagos Islands. After years of protest over a displacement described as a crime against humanity, the UK will cede the islands to Mauritius. Here are some of the exiled Chagossians in Mauritius and Britain, photographed over several years by Morgan Fache
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Southern frontlines

  • Ships can be seen waiting to cross the Panama Canal on the Pacific side of the canal.

    How the climate crisis threatens the Panama Canal – and the country’s future

  • A man trudges through a flooded street in Gardi Sugdub. After surviving the Spanish colonisation, the Guna people face another existential challenge as the climate crisis threatens their homeland. Rising sea levels have already forced the relocation of around 300 families from the island of Gardi Sugdub to a new mainland community called Isberyala.

    Vanishing act: Panama’s Guna people forced to move as the sea swallows their island – in pictures

  • A broad expanse of dark reddish-purple water runs over rocks

    ‘You can’t even wash your hands’: is a global industrial hub responsible for the destruction of Mexico’s Atoyac River?

  • People sit outdoors watching TV while others cook on a fire

    Solar power to the people: how the sun is bringing light – and TV – to Amazon villages

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Explainers

  • A man in a balaclava holding a rifle looks back at the camera while walking along a dirt street

    Sudan’s civil war: how did it begin, what is the human cost, and what is happening now?

  • A woman on a street walks past a black and white mural of a woman covering her face with her arms, with the words 'Stop killing women' written across them in red

    What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?

  • A collection of colourful pills

    Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics?

  • This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue)

    What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

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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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