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Human rights

November 2025

  • Two people in white hazmat suits lower an object wrapped in a bin-liner into a hole with a pig carcass lying next to them

    Rights and freedom
    How dead pigs are helping in the search for missing victims of Mexico’s drug wars

  • People walk on a street where huge clouds of smoke consume burning buildings

    Opinion
    Tanzania’s descent into repression is a stark warning of how fast Africa’s progress can be eroded

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • A guanaco, which resembles a llama, stands on grassland with a large body of water and mountains in the background

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Will it change the weather? Will wildlife cope?’: Europe rushes to build energy megaprojects in Chile

  • Laura Murphy leaning on a red sofa while wearing a pink jacket

    Today in Focus
    How China is trying to silence UK academics

    Podcast27:20

  • Olympians call on Iran to halt execution of boxing champion

  • Civil rescue groups in Mediterranean cut ties with Libyan coastguard

  • UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide

  • She counts
    When 14-year-old Leanne went missing, police labelled her a runaway. Her family say it’s because she is Native American

  • Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’

October 2025

  • Zeynure Hasan says she had never considered herself political or outspoken until her husband was arrested.

    Nowhere is safe
    ‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom

  • Sudanese residents gather to receive free meals in Al Fasher, a city besieged by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in Darfur region, on August 11, 2025. RSF attacked a famine-hit refugee camp in North Darfur state on August 11, 2025, killing at least 40 civilians and injuring 19 others, rescuers said. Al-Fasher is the last city in the western Darfur region still held by the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary group since April 2023. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

    Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report

  • Lawyers in black gowns seen by a statue of lady justice holding scales and a sword

    Torture, blackmail, extortion: the dangers of queer online dating in Ghana

  • Protesters wearing bandannas over their faces, and a woman with a megaphone, march down a street carrying a banner in a Mayan language

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Trouble brewing: Maya people in Yucatán fear new Heineken plant’s thirst for water

  • Rights and freedom
    The families of Syria’s disappeared are asking for the truth. Our country cannot rebuild until we have it

    Wafa Mustafa

  • Visions of resistance: women fighting to save their homeland – in pictures

    Gallery14

September 2025

  • A young Chinese woman looks at her phone

    Nowhere is safe
    ‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support

    Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama
  • The Dubai skyline including Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.

    Why Britain must not get taken in by Dubai’s skin-deep glitz

    Letters: Readers responding to Jonathan Liew’s article on Reform UK’s admiration for the emirate

    • Aid cuts
      They fled war and sexual violence and found a safe space in Athens. Then the aid cuts hit

    • Rights and freedom
      When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate

      Shams Ali*

    • Rights and freedom
      ‘It kept our spirits alive’: Taliban’s internet blackout leaves girls in despair

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