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Deaths and alleged abuse of Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia fuels demands for Nairobi to act on human rights Rights groups have expressed concern that not enough has been done to address the alleged mistreatment of domestic workers in Gulf states, such as…
An area of primary rainforest the size of Switzerland was felled last year suggesting world leaders’ commitment to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 is failingAn area the size of Switzerland was cleared from Earth’s most pristine rainforests in 20…
Migrants NGO finds recruiters making applicants pay for medical fees and training by taking out credit at exorbitant rates of interestEmployment agencies and money-lending companies in the Philippines are cheating women applying for jobs abroad out of …
Development charity says patients denied treatment or held hostage until fees paid in private facilities in India and KenyaPrivate hospitals in India and Kenya accused of refusing people on low incomes vital healthcare, or holding them hostage until bi…
Plans for the world’s first commercial octopus farm are well advanced – just as science discovers more about this curious, intelligent and affectionate animal. Can it be done ethically?The sterile boardroom, much of it taken up by a lengthy white table…
Starting in Nairobi, the initiative aims to provide daily lunches for 4 million primary school children and to ‘eliminate the shame of hunger’The largest school meals programme in Africa is to begin in Nairobi this August, in a drive to “eliminate the …
Taxing world’s wealthiest people could help poorer countries shift economies to low-carbon and recover from climate damageTax extreme wealth to pay for the climate-related damage to the poorest, a group of more than 100 leading economists have urged.A …
Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee saysPeru violated the rights of a 13-year-old girl who had been repeatedly raped by her father by denying her an abortion afte…
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“Stop killing us,” protesters across Poland chanted this evening, demanding the legalisation of abortion, after rep…
About 2,000 crew members withdrew labour over pay and conditions, as well as citing serious breaches of overfishing rules by Spanish and French companiesThe waters of west Africa and the Indian Ocean boast some of the world’s largest, healthiest popula…