Annie Kelly
Editor at The Guardian
Human rights journalist and editor of The Guardian's Rights and Freedom reporting project. Views my own. Pitches/tips to [email protected]
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3 days ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly
Good morning. If anyone thought that military sieges were consigned to the history books, they need only look at the images coming out of Gaza of starving children and obliterated landscapes as food, fuel and medicine – readily available just a few kilometres away – continue to be withheld. Gaza has been under a total military blockade by Israel since the beginning of March.
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6 days ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly
Good morning! The invitation to Buckingham Palace has paid off and the UK has become the first country to get a coveted trade deal with the United States since Donald Trump became president and plunged the global economy into chaos.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly
There is a war on journalists raging across the world. Last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recorded the highest number of media workers killed since it began collecting data three decades ago. According to that data, at least 124 journalists and media workers were killed in 2024 – nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza and the West Bank. Journalists were also killed while doing their jobs in Sudan, Pakistan, Mexico, Syria, Myanmar, Iraq and Haiti.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly
Good morning. On 13 September 2024, 49 Ukrainian prisoners of war arrived back on home soil, stepping off a coach that had taken them from Russian prison cells into the waiting arms of their families, as part of a prisoner swap negotiated between the Ukrainian and Russian governments. Yet on that sunny autumn morning, one prisoner on the official swap list was missing.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly
Good morning. This weekend Just Stop Oil put down their soup cans, hung up their hi-vis and disbanded, saying that now the UK government had stopped extracting oil and gas from the North Sea, they had achieved what they set out to do back in 2022. On Saturday the group staged a “last day of action” in London, where a couple of hundred banner-wielding activists brought streets to a partial standstill (to, of course, the fury of drivers and bystanders).
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Latest from our Rights and Freedom project - in collaboration with @RukhshanaMedia and @ZahraJoya. One young woman's story of forced marriage in a Taliban police station. Reporting by Haniya Frotan, editing by @tom_levitt #Afghanistan #endgenderapartheid https://t.co/dUMp3jG66t
RT @ZahraJoya: My colleague’s report has been published today in The Guardian about a heartbreaking case of a young girl forced into marria…
RT @MarziehHamidi: Women in Afghanistan face oppression under gender apartheid, while the men’s cricket team represents the Taliban. Stand…