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Tracey Doyin took to TikTok after she experienced the official indifference and lack of support faced by sexual assault victims
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Pollution and extraction of water are having a huge impact on local communities. High rates of cancer and respiratory problems are the norm, while marshes dry out and fish die in the rivers
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Female artists are breaking into the male-dominated scene – confronting once-taboo subjects and fighting to improve the place of women in society
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Hard graft is ingrained in South Korean society, but when the state proposed a 69-hour week, it was had to back down as millennials and gen-Zers opt out of traditional working practices
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Yvette Yaa Konadu Tetteh’s epic swim down the River Volta highlights the damage done to the country’s waterways by an out-of-control trade in secondhand clothes from the global north, and why it’s time for change
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Photographer Nicoló Lanfranchi has worked with the Asháninka people of the Amazon basin to create a portrait of an Indigenous community that is also a tribute to his friend, the murdered journalist Dom Phillips
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Rania Matar has found inspiration in Beirut’s resilient women, trying to rebuild lives after the huge blasts that wrecked the city
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As lives are lost, families separated and cultural institutions destroyed, female authors, artists and activists speak of their anger, fear and grief as war rages in their homeland
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After a decade of delays and threats, Amena was the last of seven rape survivors resolved to fight. The verdict has been welcomed by Muslims facing increasing discrimination in India
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Student who took part in anti-Beijing protests is in legal limbo after withdrawing her asylum claim to make a visa application that was then rejected
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Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee says
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Ombudsman rules that hospital in Nowy Targ failed to tell Dorota Lalik, 33, that her life was in danger and could be saved by an abortion
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Anti-Syrian sentiment has surged in Turkey, but the music scene has gone the opposite way – embracing cultural acceptance and cohesion
A common condition
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Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer
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With resources stretched, a computer questionnaire is helping to screen people at risk from depression and alcohol abuse
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In pictures
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The category-5 storm brought 160mph winds and torrential rain to parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday, leaving at least five dead and causing half a million people to be evacuated
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