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  • DSC05799 Women survivors Tigray, Ethiopia X-ray image showing a nail clipper inserted inside a uterus, Mekele, Tigray, March 2025.

    Ethiopia-Tigray war
    Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

    Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant prospect
  • Tsolo Thakeli speaking into a microphone on a stage.

    Repression
    Lesotho activist arrested after video on unemployment rates angers prime minister

    Tšolo Thakeli had long campaigned on youth joblessness, but a post questioning Sam Maketane’s promises on work creation landed him in prison
  • Cuthbert Gudza, a street money trader, repairs damaged US banknotes, outside a shopping centre, in Kuwadzana township, Harare, Zimbabwe

    The global south needs more than tinkering at a conference: debt forgiveness is the only fair way

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • A woman's pregnant torso. She is holding her stomach. She has a canula in one hand and is wearing a white dress with sunflowers on it

    Maternal health
    Too scared to go to hospital: the pregnant women in Dominican Republic dying because of deportation fears

  • 3 photographs of places in Gaza City and its citizens overlayed on a map

    Israel-Gaza war
    A street in Gaza, a map of dreams, and the people desperate to live

  • Rows of brightly coloured vapes on a shop shelf next to sweets and lollipops

    Smoking
    Vapes threaten to undo gains in tackling dangers of tobacco, health leaders warn

  • Spanish Air Force and Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) personnel inside an aircraft ahead of a mission to drop humanitarian aid parcels over Gaza, in March 2024.

    How did Spain come to be one of the few nations holding firm on aid spending?

    Ana Carbajosa
  • The hill station of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, seen from Gun Hill.

    Heat and health
    Traffic, crowds and construction: India’s hill stations swamped by tourists escaping Delhi heat

  • A group of children, some of them displaced and seeking refuge, in Goma, DRC.

    Children and conflict
    Children suffered record levels of violence in conflict zones in 2024, UN report shows

  • Fatou Wurie, wearing a Harvard jacket, standing by the steps of a large building.

    What it's really like
    What it’s really like … to know I’m going to miss my Harvard graduation because of Trump’s travel ban

Explore

  • Two smiling South Asian men, one with his arm around the other.

    Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’

    Defying threats and ostracism, they both fought fiercely for their daughters’ rights. Now a film features them discussing fatherhood, courage, gender justice and strong girls
  • Partial image of a women against Aids poster in South Africa

    South Africa is at the heart of the HIV pandemic. What happens now the money has been cut?

  • A man's head and shoulders.

    ‘People see government as the enemy’: Bangladesh’s interim leader on the legacy of a toxic system

  • African protesters stage a mock funeral, carrying a model of a child's coffin. A sign says "Thabo, your ideas are toxic'

    ‘I don’t want my boy to be positive’: pregnant women face sky-high viral loads as cuts hit HIV care in Africa

  • A solemn, middle-aged Arab man looks at the camera

    ‘It was as if I had been poisoned when I left Gaza’: journalist Wael al-Dahdouh on family loss, survival and finding solidarity

  • Sugar cane workers

    Outrage as sugar cane workers in India still being ‘pushed’ into having hysterectomies

  • A smiling man and a woman jump in the air next to a lake on a sunny day

    Conversations with strangers: inviting people to join my daily walk has made my life fuller

    Jacqueline Asiimwe

Rights and freedom

  • In Agadez, Niger, refugees in a desert camp protest peacefully

    ‘We don’t want to stay here’: UN accused of abandoning refugees in Niger

  • Four men, two in red cross tracksuits carry a wooden coffin past graves.

    ‘We were sinking. I let her go’: how growing numbers of women are risking all to reach Europe by boat

  • A muzzled dog led by soldier wearing a helmet and face covering and carrying a gun.

    Attack dogs: how Europe supplies Israel with brutal canine weapons

  • How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes

    How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes

Sudan

  • The burning and charred wreckage of an aid truck hit in the attack

    ‘Multiple casualties’ reported after attack on UN aid convoy in Darfur

  • Three sections of bright colour photographs of a tree and plants are superimposed on to a black and white photograph of a street full of rubble and rubbish

    Before and after: images by Sudan’s accidental war photographer show loss of everyday life

  • A man wearing camouflage patterned clothes and holding an automatic rifle walks past a burnt-out building.

    Dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes handed to Metropolitan police

  • A white coated female doctor wearing a hijab and a face mask sits at a desk in a modern-looking clinic with a patient sitting on a chair facing her.

    Gleaming labs turned to rubble: scientists mourn the loss of decades of medical progress in Sudan

Opinion

  • A nurse wearing protective clothing speaks to a HIV-positive patient in a gazebo used as a mobile clinic

    ‘We remember the silence, the denial, the deaths. We cannot go back to the dark days of gaslighting us on Aids’

    Yvette Raphael and Sibongile Tshabalala
  • Sarah Champion

    Progress unravelled, and millions left vulnerable: how British aid cuts threaten British health too

    Sarah Champion
  • Packets of sweets on display in a shop in Colombia

    It’s time to stop the great food heist powered by big business. That means taxation, regulation and healthy school meals

    Stuart Gillespie
  • Hanifa Safia Adan

    Reduce immigration to the west? We don’t want to come anyway, Mr Starmer

    Hanifa Safia Adan

In pictures

  • A woman in a huge canopy-like dress of stiff purple fabric decorated with gold moons and stars stands in front of a rose-red wall. To her right is a small fire; to her left a white snake.

    Women behind the lens: ‘The bridal dress is meant to present her as a queen … but to me it always felt like a cage’

    The work of the Moroccan photographer Sara Benabdallah explores ritual and repression in her country’s marriage traditions

Southern frontlines

  • Two hands full of seeds of different shapes and sizes

    Ancient maize v agribusiness: why Colombia’s ‘seed guardians’ are fighting the use of GM crops

  • A Quechua mother and her son in traditional dress during the Compadres festival in the Sacred Valley. The boy is holding a goose feather ornament.

    In the shadow of melting glaciers: life in the heartland of the Incas’ former empire – a photo essay

  • More than a dozen young Latino people digging holes and planting trees over a bare hillside

    One man, thousands of trees and heaps of determination: how regreening Guatemala transformed a village

  • A small lagoon with green grass and shrubs growing around it under a blue sky

    A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town

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 masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

    Are we ready for another pandemic?

  • 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?

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

    How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?

Multimedia

  2. Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic

    ‘I hate the night’: Life in Gaza amid the incessant sounds of war

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