A group of 15 teenage girls in southeast England has taken its campaign against the sexualisation of school uniforms to the British Parliament, calling for legislation to prohibit their use in pornographic
For almost two decades, Regina Jardim has been recording the lives of Brazilian women killed by men. Her work began after her daughter, Priscila, was shot dead by her ex-partner as she
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The alleged group rape of a Cornell University student has become one of the most serious scandals in the 161-year history of the elite New York institution, while also exposing a legal
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The Sallay case has become larger than one former intelligence chief. The UN’s intervention exposes questions about the evidence behind his detention, allegations of torture, political conspiracy narratives and the responsibility of
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces renewed political pressure as the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janata Party and separate student and civil society groups stage protests on Friday demanding the resignation of Chief
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Around 5.8 million refugee children did not attend school in 2025, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, leaving 44 per cent of the world’s 13.2 million school-age refugee children without
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Part 1 Look at the ordinary things around you. The clothes on your back, the cup beside you, the wires in the wall, the screen in your hand. Hardly any of it
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Greenland reveals the Trump Corollary in its most naked form. Far from an empty white space as it is often portrayed, this Inuit society of roughly 57,000 people has a long history
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A critical examination of the growing expectations placed on prison monitors—and the dangerous gap between identifying abuse and changing the system that produces it.
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In Moroni, the capital of the Comoros, access to water has become a daily struggle for residents who increasingly depend on private sellers, long queues and costly deliveries as the city’s ageing
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A convoy of seven United Nations vehicles moves through Mogadishu under heavy security, with armed escorts repeatedly trying to force a path through traffic. When the vehicles stop, the convoy’s security chief
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The prospect of artificial intelligence destroying humanity has become a prominent part of the technology industry’s public debate, but Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues that the more immediate danger lies elsewhere: the
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A significant discrepancy has emerged between a population figure published by Sri Lanka’s Central Bank for the Northern Province and the latest official census data issued by the Department of Census and
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When Benjamin Netanyahu rose to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, the rows of empty seats spoke before he did. Diplomats walked out, while others stayed away from the
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Sri Lanka has every right to speak forcefully on Palestine and international justice. But moral authority abroad cannot substitute for diplomatic precision at home. With the current account weakening, thousands of workers
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Pope Leo XIV has rejected describing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church simply as a “systemic” problem, while acknowledging that some church organisations had at times operated “as an abusive system”. His
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