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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.

Rights and freedom

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  • Damaged structure of a burned out building with rubble lying around

    Myanmar
    Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report

    Analysis of imagery from conflict zones shows evidence of burned-out and flattened buildings, with long-term impacts on education
  • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

    Transnational repression
    UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

    Saudis living in the UK claim Riyadh is targeting them for speaking out on human rights and jailing of female activists
  • Hundreds of people stand with their hands on their heads as security forces wearing all black walk through.

    El Salvador
    Thousands of children swept up in El Salvador mass arrests, rights body says

    Human Rights Watch says ill-treatment of some minors arbitrarily held in gang crackdown amounts to torture
  • A dark-haired young man in a suit jacket poses on a sofa

    Transnational repression
    Iranian TV presenter stabbed in London moves abroad for safety

    Exclusive: Pouria Zeraati ‘no longer felt safe in UK’ as Tehran regime steps up threats and attacks on critics in exile
    • Voters in Iran put their votes into red ballot boxes.

      Iran
      ‘I feel betrayed by the west’: Iran’s freedom protesters react to their new president

    • A wall mural on a street in Kabul shows protesting women. The foremost woman has her arms raised, but her open mouth has been spraypainted black. Writing in Arabic reads: 'Afghan women will not be silent anymore'

      Afghanistan
      Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

    • Afghan women in Islamabad hold up posters and placards in a protest demanding to boycott meeting with Taliban in Doha.

      Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most

      Fawzia Koofi
    • A mural showing a woman in a blue headscarf looking away and holding up her hands defensively.,

      Afghanistan
      Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’

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Multimedia

  • New Rwandans, from left, Yvan Kambari, Esther Iranzi and

    ‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’: the new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures

  • Motaz Azaiza standing among smoking rubble

    Motaz Azaiza: capturing Israel’s offensive on Gaza from the inside – in pictures

  • Hazar stands outside a collapsed apartment building where her family used to live in Antakya.

    A year in the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake – a photo essay

  • People on the move in Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict has brought reports of widespread human rights abuses, including murder, rape, looting and the burning of homes.

    The forgotten human rights stories of 2023 – in pictures

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Spotlight

  • An illustration featuring European landmarks such as Big Ben, the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa

    How big is Europe’s cocaine problem – and what is the human cost?

  • Cécile Kohler appears on iran tv wearing a headscarf whilst delivering a forced confession

    ‘I saw my sister forced to say she was a spy on Iranian TV. It was the worst day of my life’

  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

    ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters?

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river

    Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?

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Explore

  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk

  • Women from Geneina in a refugee camp in Adré, Chad, in November.

    Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda: the man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence

  • A placard of the Ghanaian flag above its coat of arms saying "queer Ghanaian lives matter" attached to railings outside a building

    Men enthusiastically express their heterosexuality in Ghana, so why is being queer so unacceptable?

    Elliot Kwabena Akosa
  • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

    Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

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