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Tom Levitt

Tom Levitt is a commissioning editor of the Guardian's Rights & Freedom series and writes about human rights and the environment

July 2024

  • Fawzia, Manahel and Maryam al-Otaibi.

    Today in Focus
    The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence – podcast

    Three siblings dared to challenge the kingdom’s restrictive rules for women – and it changed their lives for ever. Tom Levitt reports
  • 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

    Rights and freedom
    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
  • 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'

    Rights and freedom
    Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

    Activist claims she was threatened with release of the footage in order to silence her, amid multiple reports of sexual violence inflicted upon imprisoned Afghan women

June 2024

  • Two rows of bearded men sit at a conference table.

    Rights and freedom
    Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

    Group allegedly demanding Afghan participation in Doha meeting this month be limited to men and that women’s rights be excluded from the agenda
  • westafrica trail

    Bloodlines
    A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

    As white powder bound for European ports floods the city of Agadez in Niger, female migrants are the most common victims in a growing addiction crisis
  • A girl in a hijab puts her hand over her face as she cries

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school

    Barred from school for 1,000 days, girls in Afghanistan face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no end in sight

May 2024

  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

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

    Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives

March 2024

  • A composite photograph of three young men, one holding a little girl

    Rights and freedom
    ‘They can’t grieve’: families in limbo as Channel boat victims left unidentified

    French authorities accused of failing to investigate the fates of refugees who have gone missing at sea while trying to cross by boat to the UK, with families still waiting for news of loved ones

January 2024

  • When Rakel took over the last farm in her Norwegian village, she was not only taking responsibility for a flock of accident-prone woolly animals, but also a way of life at a crossroads

    23:17

    The Guardian documentary
    Rowdy Flock: a daughter, her dreams, and a sheep farm in Norway

  • Rakel Nystabakk

    ‘A part of me was always here’: falling in love with sheep-farming in the Norwegian fjords

  • Rakel Nystabakk in the Norwegian documentary, Rowdy Flock made by filmmaker Rebekka Nystabakk

    The Guardian documentary
    Rowdy Flock: a daughter, her dreams, and a sheep farm in Norway

  • 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.

    Rights and freedom
    The forgotten human rights stories of 2023 – in pictures

October 2023

  • Demonstrators holds flags and placards during a rally of HongKongers against the Chinese Communist party in Chinatown, London, in 2021.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We don’t feel safe here’: Hongkongers in UK fear long reach of Chinese government

    Pro-democracy supporters who fled Hong Kong for Britain speak about continued harassment, threats and physical attacks

July 2023

  • Muslim woman on street in Amman, Jordan

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I am a prisoner’: women fight Middle Eastern laws that keep them trapped at home

    Rules restricting a woman’s freedom to live, work and study persist in countries including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, says Human Rights Watch report

April 2023

  • A vast green field of sugarcane

    EU firms accused of ‘abhorrent’ export of banned pesticides to Brazil

    BASF among firms selling chemicals to sugar industry despite links to human health risks

February 2023

  • Shepherdess-Basu-17 Shepherdess Aina Lizarza Solana, 26, finally has a moment to soak in the sun while her animals relax in an enclosed pasture. She is surrounded by goats known as the ‘cabra catalana,’ an ancient breed that is indigenous to Catalunya, but suffered near-extinction in past decades. Solana worked with these goats last summer during an internship at a farm working to revitalize cabra catalana populations and revive public taste in their meat. Vilanova de Meiá, Catalunya, Spain. May 9, 2022. The Good Shepherdess. Walking with a New Generation of Shepherd-Women in Spain

    Animals farmed update
    Animals Farmed: a leap in salmon deaths, superbug fears and the life of a Spanish shepherdess

  • Algal blooms

    Animals farmed
    Tesco chicken supplier should pay to clean up River Wye, says charity

January 2023

  • Pigs in a barn at Belle Vue Farm, Preston, England.

    Animals farmed
    ‘The government doesn’t care’: UK pig farmers voice alarm over shrinking sector

  • A man carrying chickens on a street in Ghana

    Animals farmed update
    Animals Farmed: salmon farm disease, chicken tariffs in Africa and the return of China’s wildlife farms

December 2022

  • A 26-storey pig farm in Ezhou, Hubei province, China, which plans to produce 1 million pigs a year.

    Animals farmed update
    Animals Farmed: China’s pig skyscraper, lab-grown meat and egg shortages

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web
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