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What does safe mean to you?: young photographers share images of family, friendship and hope – in pictures
theguardian.com
Restless Development, a global youth agency, asked photographers aged 18-25 from around the world to submit images for the WHO global campaign to end violence against children on the theme of feeling...
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Cattle, crops and ancient olive groves: Lebanon’s farmers ‘lose everything’ to Israeli bombs
theguardian.com
Thousands of hectares of fertile land, including olive trees that have survived for millennia, have been destroyed in the country’s agricultural heartland
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‘Levels are dropping’: drought saps Zambia and Zimbabwe of hydropower
theguardian.com
Vast human-made Lake Kariba is at near-record low, causing daily power cuts and devastating two African economies
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‘I’m switched off’: frustration and fatigue as power cuts keep Ecuador in the dark
theguardian.com
Facing a severe drought and reliant on hydropower, the country is enduring relentless blackouts. But experts say opportunities have been missed to adapt and diversify
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‘I went to war. It was a nightmare’: how children have become ‘cannon fodder’ in DRC’s endless conflict
theguardian.com
Driven mostly by poverty, children as young as 10 have been enlisted by the country’s militias, while NGOs try to reach and reintegrate those who escape
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How the climate crisis threatens the Panama Canal – and the country’s future
theguardian.com
Recent drought restrictions on the waterway cost the country $1bn. Now, newly appointed environment minister Juan Carlos Navarro must find a way to balance sustainability with economic growth
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Rounded up, massacred and posted on social media: can Ethiopia bring justice for atrocities in Tigray?
theguardian.com
The country is about to start investigating crimes reported in a brutal regional war. But trust is at an all-time low and survivors feel forgotten
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Vanishing act: Panama’s Guna people forced to move as the sea swallows their island – in pictures
theguardian.com
Earlier this year, families from the Indigenous Guna people on the tiny island of Gardi Sugdub became the first to undergo a climate-related relocation by the Panamanian government because of the...
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In an era of environmental crises, women closest to the destruction must be heard | Omaira Bolaños
theguardian.com
My mother showed me the importance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant women in protecting the natural world. Yet they continue to face barriers and discrimination in their work
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‘I do an illegal job, stealing’: the women forced to scavenge in Bolivia’s tin mines
theguardian.com
Some work underground, others pick over tailings; all are running huge risks. But in the town of Huanani, the mines are the only way to support a family
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After Islamic State: how writers and poets are reclaiming the soul of Mosul
theguardian.com
IS burned 100,000 books when they occupied the Iraqi city. Now, as the arts flourish once again and help to restore social cohesion, the ancient cultural centre is being reborn
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School-leaver at 11, domestic slave at 12, gang member at 15: how a missing birth certificate derailed a life
theguardian.com
Unable to access her documentation, Esther* found herself trapped in a spiral of abuse typical of Kenya’s child labour problem
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‘We checked on a mother and asked what she was feeding her new baby. She said just hot water’
theguardian.com
As a nurse I helped to build a small clinic in a Tunisian refugee camp where we treat machete wounds and disease day and night. But we cannot treat malnutrition without food
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A ninth woman has died reporting on the Ukraine conflict. Russia’s war on journalists must end | Kiran Nazish
theguardian.com
Warnings are not enough. After Victoria Roshchyna’s death, we need zero tolerance of the detention and brutal treatment of female reporters
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‘You can’t even wash your hands’: is a global industrial hub responsible for the destruction of Mexico’s Atoyac River?
theguardian.com
Pollution from a cluster of foreign factories is contributing to a threat to public health, allege campaigners, who say the country is prioritising economic growth over the environment
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‘Not just a museum’: Kenya’s seed bank offers unexpected lifeline for farmers
theguardian.com
Set up to conserve traditional seeds, the Genetic Resources Research Institute is now helping smallholders diversify with crops resilient to the rapid changes in climate
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No, Robert Jenrick, former colonies do not owe a ‘debt of gratitude’ for Britain’s legacy of brutality and exploitation | Kenneth Mohammed
theguardian.com
As a historian, the UK conservative party leadership candidate should know that the only debt owed is one of accountability and reparation
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‘Hair is more than strands. It symbolises life’: the braids that bind an Ecuadorian community
theguardian.com
In Otavalo the men, as well as women, see their long hair as integral to the beliefs and culture of the Kichwa people
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‘I can’t stop now’: Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law forces climate activist into exile
theguardian.com
Already targeted for opposing the EACOP oil pipeline, claims that he was gay forced Nyombi Morris to flee
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