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Rights and Freedom

A Guardian series reporting on human rights abuses around the world and elevating the voices of those fighting for justice.

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  • Blank Newspaper<br>A newspaper with parts of the text censored out, making up the face of Abiy Ahmed

    Press freedom
    Mass arrests and beatings: how Ethiopia went from celebrating journalists to jailing them

    Hundreds of media workers have been detained, often on terror charges, or forced into exile by Abiy Ahmed’s regime
  • Illustration of Narendra Modi made up of black lines on a page of text to look like redacted words in an article

    Press freedom
    ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India

    Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons’ control over the media, are all seen as eroding the country’s democracy
  • Annie Kelly

    There is a war on journalists raging around the world: let their voices be heard

    Annie Kelly
  • Illustration of Donald Trump made up of black lines on a page of text to look like redacted words in an article

    World Press Freedom Day
    ‘A cocktail for a misinformed world’: why China and Russia are cheering Trump’s attacks on media

    Today on World Press Freedom Day, there are warnings that US attempts to withdraw from promoting independent journalism will have far-reaching effects
    • Russia Prison illustration

      The Viktoriia project
      Inside Taganrog: beatings, electrocution and starvation at prison where Ukrainians were tortured

    • A person holds a framed photo of Viktoriia Roshchyna

      The Viktoriia project
      ‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

    • Aerial image of Kawasi village on Obi Island, Indonesia, with the Harita nickel mine in the background.

      Environmental pollution
      Company supplying critical EV metal ‘did not disclose’ Erin Brockovich toxin in drinking water

    • A group of exhausted-looking men wrapped in foil blankets sit on the deck of a boat

      Migration routes
      ‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece

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Multimedia

  • Kaamil Ahmed explains how the international legal system is adapting to social media, finding a way to use the digital material shared online to corroborate accounts of war crimes being committed in countries ranging from Ukraine to Sudan
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    How social media is helping catch war criminals – video

  • Women sit at circular tables at the summit in Tirana

    Inside a secret summit of Afghan women’s rights activists – podcast

  • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

    ‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

  • Fawzia, Manahel and Maryam al-Otaibi.

    The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence – podcast

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Spotlight

  • a destroyed vehicle near Al Awda hospital following an Israeli airstrike in Al Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip

    ‘In Gaza, a press vest makes you a target’: the journalists who have paid a price for reporting on the war

  • TOPSHOT-MYANMAR-COUP-CONFLICT-WOMEN<br>TOPSHOT - This photo taken on December 10, 2023 shows female members of the Mandalay People's Defense Forces (MDY-PDF) heading to the frontline amid clashes with the Myanmar military in northern Shan State. In the hills of northern Myanmar young women fly combat drones, treat wounded comrades and patrol the frontlines, new roles in the battle to overthrow the military junta. (Photo by AFP) / To go with 'MYANMAR-COUP-CONFLICT-WOMEN,FOCUS' (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

    Four years after the coup, chaos reigns as Myanmar’s military struggles

  • In her family car in Ukraine, Natalia Kryvolapchuk goes forehead to forehead with her daughter Sonya, 6, whose vital cancer treatment was halted by war

    ‘It’s not our job to make photos that are easy to look at’: the female photographers exposing the cost of conflict in 2024

  • A bucket of grapes with a vine-cutting tool on top

    Champagne’s sordid secret: the homeless and hungry migrants picking grapes for France’s luxury winemakers

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Explore

  • A young man wearing a baseball cap and a thick jacket stands on snowy grass outside a large tent, looking away from the camera.

    Three kidnappings, prison and a shipwreck: Ghaith’s journey reveals the ruthless business of Europe’s migration crisis

  • Women wave flags as the hang out of their car during victory celebrations in Umayyad Square on December 13, 2024 in Damascus, Syria

    The parallels between Libya’s revolution and Syria’s are stark. But they need not be prophetic

    Najla Mohammed El Mangoush
  • A man with curly blond hair wearing glasses, a surgical mask and a disposable coverall leans over a woman holding an infant.

    ‘We’re witnesses to the horror of the world’: the one-of-a-kind Italian clinic treating refugees for trauma

  • Wafa Mustafa holds a picture of her father up above the head of a crowd of people around her

    ‘I watched every video to see my father’s face’: the woman who became the voice of Syria’s missing on why she isn’t giving up hope

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