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Activists fear a systematic ‘witch-hunt’ against sexual minorities by parliament, police and religious conservatives A dramatic surge in attacks on LGBTQ+ people in Uganda has been recorded by rights groups this year, as the environment for sexual mino…
Programme spent £2.7bn between 2016 and 2021 but is fragmented and lacks a clear rationale, report saysBritain’s aid programme to India is fragmented, lacks a clear rationale and does little to counter the negative trends in human rights and democracy …
The disease, which has killed 1,500 people since last March, has been aggravated by heavy rains and an overburdened health systemMalawi’s cholera outbreak is the country’s deadliest on record, claiming more than 1,500 lives, according to the UN.More th…
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says culprits should be severely punished, amid signs hundreds of girls have been treated in hospitalIran’s supreme leader has called the suspected poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls in recent months an “unforgivable” crime amid si…
National park in Senegal shows off three surprise new recruits in fight to save critically endangered species from extinctionA lioness in one of the world’s rarest lion populations has given birth to three cubs, new video footage shows, raising hopes t…
Supreme court rules for freedom of association but landmark decision sparks backlash from government and churchesThe supreme court of Kenya has criticised the government for failure to register an association for LGBTQ+ people, saying the decision disc…
The charity was taken to court for its work in the Middle East by the US body, whose director justifies litigation against NGOs that ‘cross the line’A leading NGO has broken its silence on a bruising legal battle with a pro-Israeli advocacy group, desc…
Conservationists condemn latest cull as ‘trophy hunting’, while hunters admit it is ‘about the excitement’Sweden has issued licences to hunters to kill a total of 201 lynx, weeks after dozens of wolves were killed in the country’s biggest wolf cull in …
Select committee accuses government of wilfully obscuring facts around ‘unsustainable’ trendAs much as a third of the heavily cut UK overseas aid budget is now being spent on housing refugees in the UK, the international development select committee sa…
In a country where gay sex is already punishable by life in prison, campaigners have condemned proposed new law as ‘demonisation’MPs in Uganda have reintroduced a controversial anti-LGBTQ bill, with one describing homosexuality as a “cancer”, attractin…