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Authorities act to counter rumours out-of-date shots are being used as people drag their heels over being vaccinated -
On cars, restaurant walls and buildings reduced to rubble, Bashar al-Assad’s face is plastered across the country, a decade after he crushed the first protests against his rule. By photographer Rami al-Bustan
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New stations at health clinics improve hygiene in locations where warm water seen as ‘an absolute luxury’, helping to tackle Covid -
Rwanda study raises fears erosion of efficacy may have begun, with children at greatest risk
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For two decades the global community has stood by while militia groups have got away with killing, raping and looting
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The mostly white development sector only funds efforts led by more ‘legitimate’ people. We need support from the diaspora
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Natural disaster compounded by the collapse of a lucrative export during the pandemic has thrust people into poverty -
Analysis: as need outstrips funding, experts are making the case for overhauling ‘old-fashioned’ donor-recipient narratives -
Staying home means starvation for many Zimbabweans, and those forced to work face police raids and dwindling custom
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Indonesian men, women and children are risking their health wearing metallic paint to earn money as the economic impact of coronavirus worsens
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Some prosecutors and law enforcement observers say departments carried out mass arrests as crowd control tactic -
Black, Asian and ethnic minority women report being denied pain relief or feeling unheard to panel investigating mortality disparity -
A round-up of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Mexico to China -
JusticeLA’s activists have devoted themselves to shutting down a jail construction plan – and they aren’t ‘playing to the middle’
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Life was hard in this remote area of central Asia, until tourism offered new hope. Then Covid-19 struck and the tourists stopped coming
Europe's refugee crisis
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A formidable battery of drones, thermal cameras and heartbeat detectors are being deployed to exclude asylum seekers -
One refugee’s terrifying story illustrates how ‘pushbacks’ are creating a crisis for the right to asylum at Europe’s borders -
Campaign group calls for more testing at Mavrovouni, a temporary facility housing thousands of refugees on the Greek island
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Coverage on recent struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Cardiff Bay to Thailand
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