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‘We are fighting the system’: Haiti lawyers taking rape to the courts

In a society riven with poverty and where armed gangs use sexual violence as a means of control, three women are working for justice

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2022

‘Destructive hunger’: South America’s farmers seek to head off global food crisis

Supply problems and rising costs make it difficult to replace lost agricultural output caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Financial Times · Apr 18, 2022

Russia's unspeakable horrors in northern Ukraine: Torture, murder and cluster bombs

Vladimir Putin's forces may have retreated from northern Ukraine for now, but many residents fear their nightmare is not yet over. WARNING: This article contains images and details readers might find distressing.

ABC News · Apr 17, 2022

Rwanda asylum plan could lead to Home Office staff walking out in protest, union warns

Unions have warned civil servants could request transfers or leave the civil service entirely, if they object to the scheme

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2022

Facebook struggles as Russia steps up presence in unstable west Africa

Increasingly sophisticated efforts to influence opinion are making it harder to establish whether they breach Facebook’s policies

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022

Iran Confirms Centrifuge Workshop Moved to Underground Site

Iran has confirmed it relocated a centrifuge facility to its underground Natanz nuclear site, state media reported, days after the UN atomic watchdog said it installed surveillance cameras to monitor the new workshop at Tehran's request. The late Saturday report by the official IRNA news agency comes as diplomatic efforts…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 17, 2022

China Eastern resumes Boeing 737-800 flights after March crash

China Eastern Airlines has started putting its Boeing 737-800 jetliners back in use for commercial flights less than a month since a crash killed 132 people and led the company to ground 223 of the aircraft, the carrier said on Sunday.

Reuters · Apr 17, 2022

'Inhuman' Situation in Ukraine's Mariupol as Russia Claims almost Full Control

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation in Mariupol is "inhuman" and called on the West to immediately provide heavy weapons, as Russia claimed it was in control of almost all of the strategic port city and urged its last defenders to surrender. Moscow said Ukrainian forces in the city…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 17, 2022

Rwanda genocide orphans to be booted out of home to make way for UK asylum seekers

Orphans of Rwanda’s civil war say they have nowhere to go after being turfed out of a hostel under Priti Patel's cruel Rwanda refugee scheme

Daily Mirror · Apr 16, 2022

Domestic violence cases rise in wake of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption, as women call for a power shift in humanitarian response

The UN says 70 per cent of women and girls experience sexual or gender-based violence during crises. How have women fared in the aftermath of Tonga's volcanic eruption?

ABC News · Apr 16, 2022