Human rights
April 2026
- Rights and freedom‘Everyone is thinking about oil prices’: is Iran using the war to hide a surge in executions?
Mahrang BalochOpinionMy year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on
March 2026
‘The whole country is doing it’: how illegal kidney traders target Pakistan’s desperate brick kiln workers
- Women in prisonWoman has sentence quashed by Tanzania court after over a decade on death row
‘Invasive’ AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts
- The age of extinction‘The last frontier’: how red globules of nickel ore are suffocating an island’s precious wilderness
Prison sentences for pair who attacked gay men hailed as sign of hope for Kenya’s LGBTQ+ community
- Rights and freedomMinab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible?
- The Guardian picture essayLife on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish
Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules
- Ukraine in depth‘In the face of death, we are all equal’: Ukraine’s Roma fight for recognition for those serving in war
- Women in prisonJailed for losing a pregnancy: how progress on El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law is unravelling
February 2026
- Women in prison‘A rushed execution’: the case of the woman convicted of child murder that shocked Somalia
- Rights and freedom‘Deliberate targeting of vital body parts’: X-rays taken after Iran protests expose extent of catastrophic injuries
- Rights and freedomNew photos give glimpse inside Iran’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests
‘Invisible’ children born in the brothels of Bangladesh finally get birth certificates
- Rights and freedom‘I saw kids being shot, women, old people’: how a massacre unfolded in one Iranian city
- Global dispatch newsletterKilling on a mass scale: piecing together the full picture of Iran’s brutal crackdown
- Women behind the lensWomen behind the lens: ‘I met 14-year-old Arti a day before her wedding. Her suicide six years later hit home’
- Rights and freedomTrump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says