Afghan women's faces disappear online and in the street after Taliban takeover

Rights campaigners have warned that digital footprints could be used by the militant group to target people

Luxury to essential: Latam boosts internet access in pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred governments in Latin America to implement laws and initatives to boost internet access and get more people online.


All-women's Islamic choir smashes gender taboos in Egypt

In socially conservative Egypt, trailblazing choral group challenges male domination of a traditional musical discipline


Taliban rule presents aid agencies with moral, fiscal dilemma

To continue investment in Afghanistan means to engage with the ruling Taliban, but to pull funding in a country dependent on international aid means abandoning 38 million Afghans


'They are hungry': Haiti quake survivors fear for children's future

The temblor claimed the lives of at least 2,207 people, injured 12,268 more and left 344 missing, according to Haitian authorities


Slaves to deforestation: Labor abuses fuel Brazil's Amazon destruction

A spike in rainforest loss since right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took power has provoked an international outcry, but the workers who do the logging, often in slave-like conditions, remain invisible


China warns Tibet climate risks could soar despite short-term gains

Though increased rainfall and higher temperatures are making the region greener, more fertile and more "beautiful" now, experts warn this beauty comes at a high cost


Kabul airport curbs blocking medical supplies for Afghans -WHO

Nearly half the population of Afghanistan rely on aid, but the closure of Kabul airport to commercial flights has held up deliveries


Weakened Henri drenches U.S. Northeast, heightening flood threat

The storm follows an unusually wet spring and summer, which will mean worse flooding inland, especially if it lingers, one insurance expert warns


Opinion

OPINION: Data protection law will not reign in China’s ‘techno-authoritarianism’

What does China’s new data protection law mean for users’ privacy?


OPINION: Displaced within a city: COVID-19 and repeat evictions in Lagos’ slums

There are over 100 slum and squatter settlements in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos. We visited five such communities as part of a Prindex study on land and housing rights, speaking to countless residents who have been repeatedly forced from their homes.



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