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African-led study expected to involve 1,600 people over next three years in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa
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‘Legally and morally wrong to expect seafarers to work indefinitely while depriving them of their fundamental rights’ -
As Zimbabwe marks 40 years of independence, photographer Hannah Mentz showcases 40 great Zimbabweans, including leading women in their field
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Covid could be ‘the straw that breaks the camel’s back’ health workers warn
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My Gaza by Jehad al-Saftawi is a personal account of peoples’ suffering as they go about their lives under Israeli blockade -
In Chichigalpa, kidney failure accounts for half of all male deaths over the last decade. Could industry changes be the key to saving lives?
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Manisha was shunned as a child by her family and ended up on the streets – now she dreams of opening an orphanage
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War, hunger and devastating aid cuts have made the plight of Yemeni’s almost unbearable, and the pandemic seem like just another tragedy -
The city’s railway is a hit with passengers, but critics say worker deaths and huge debt are too high a price to pay -
Black people in the north African country suffer hardship and disadvantage, and many still carry the label of ‘liberated’ slaves
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Mainstream pornography sites are ‘changing what is normal’, warns child abuse expert Michael Sheath -
Site – visited 100m times a day – to make changes following allegations it was hosting abusive and non-consensual material -
Workers are being forced into debt and facing food shortages as suppliers to western fashion brands cut wages and close factories -
The Internet Watch Foundation is seeing a growing number of tipoffs about child abuse. We talk to one analyst about her work
Europe's refugee crisis
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Man with right to asylum in Germany allegedly stripped of papers and expelled in ‘refugee pushback’ while searching for 11-year-old brother -
Evidence including footage of Frontex ship making waves near a migrant dinghy appears to contradict agency’s denial of involvement in pushbacks -
More than 7,500 people living in tents on squalid settlement, with two other camps on Lesbos set to close
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In an area that is infamous for high drug use, a group of men use their own experience of addiction to help children strive for new goals
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