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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
A human rights lawyer involved in a case featuring a prominent Ugandan opposition leader has been tortured after he was arrested and detained without trial, according to colleagues who have visited him. Eron Kiiza was assaulted and arrested by soldiers on 7 January while entering a military courtroom where he was representing Dr Kizza Besigye – a political opponent of President Yoweri Museveni – and his aide Haji Obeid Lutale.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
Throughout his ministry, the Rev Cliff Nyekanyeka has led funeral services for women who died after an illegal abortion in Malawi. He has visited hospitals where doctors have shown him the aftereffects of such procedures, including pictures of what he describes as “rotting uteruses”. And he has seen women struggling with unwanted pregnancies. It is this lived experience that has led Nyekanyeka to advocate for a woman’s right to choose, and to campaign for change in a country with .
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
The first hint that something was wrong came when Jacqueline Diaz received a call at work from a friend. “You need to come here, to my shop, now. It’s urgent,” she was told. Diaz rushed to her friend’s shop in La Paz, Bolivia, where she found her daughter, Michelle, who was 12 at the time, crying and in shock. That morning, on her way to school, a van had pulled up, the door opened and two men pulled her inside before speeding off.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
Earlier this year, Morena Herrera woke up to find that a video about her had been posted on social media. It claimed that the 64-year-old campaigner for abortion rights in El Salvador had “chased down” a young woman in hospital and “terrorised” her into seeking an abortion. The young woman was Beatriz, who had been denied an abortion in 2013, even though she was seriously ill and the foetus would not have survived outside the uterus.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson |Sarah Taylor
Patent experts at Pinsent Masons said the decision, which reverses an earlier ruling by the Helsinki local division of the UPC, will provide new litigation options for some patent rights holders and could pave the way for an increase in UPC litigations in future. The UPC became operational on 1 June 2023.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
Eight times as many children around the world will be exposed to extreme heatwaves in the 2050s, and three times as many will face river floods compared with the 2000s if current trends continue, according to the UN. Nearly twice as many children are also expected to face wildfires, with many more living through droughts and tropical cyclones, according to the annual state of the world’s children report.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
aol.co.uk | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
People in Gaza have been pushed “beyond breaking point” with families, widows and children enduring “almost unparalleled suffering”, according to the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Jan Egeland visited Gaza this week and found “scene after scene of absolute despair”, with families torn apart and unable to bury relatives who had died. He said that Israel, with western-supplied arms, had “rendered the densely populated area uninhabitable”.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
In the UK, Scotland and Wales have banned corporal punishment, but it is still allowed in home settings in England and Northern Ireland. In the UK, Scotland and Wales have banned corporal punishment, but it is still allowed in home settings in England and Northern Ireland.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
Most nights, under cover of darkness, Sandra* ventures underground into the Huanuni tin mine, about 40 miles (60km) south of the city of Oruro, in Bolivia. She walks for around nine hours collecting about 35kg of rocks containing the mineral before heading back the way she came, hiding from anyone who might be patrolling the tunnels. She sells what she collects through unofficial channels and typically makes 1,800 to 3,000 Bolivianos (£200 to £330) a week.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson
For decades, a growth the size of a large melon made Raymondo Okir’s life miserable. Okir, who lives in a village in northern Uganda, first noticed the swelling around his genitalia in 1983. Within a year, the mass had grown large enough that he developed back pain and found it hard to wear trousers and to have sexual relations with his wife. “Everyone would look and laugh at me and I felt inferior. It grew quickly,” says Okir, 78. “I felt fear. It was hard to dress.
