A girl runs through the train station in Záhony, Hungary, after arriving from neighbouring Ukraine. More than 2.5 million refugees have already crossed borders since 24 February, when the Russian invasion began.
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Women celebrate legal abortion in Bogotá, Colombia. Colombia has decriminalised abortion in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Previously, abortion in the country was allowed only where there was a risk to the life or health of the pregnant mother; the existence of life-threatening foetal malformations; or when the pregnancy was the result of rape, incest or non-consensual artificial insemination.
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Loretta Ann P Rosales, a human rights activist, holds a mugshot from when she was arrested after martial law was declared in the Philippines in the 1970s. Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos who ruled at that time, is leading opinion polls in the run-up to the May election.
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Ugandan torture survivors hold banners outside the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Kampala while police stand guard. They accuse the OHCHR of silence and inaction over torture by Ugandan security forces. Last month, Human Rights Watch urged authorities to investigate reports that military officers tortured satirical writer and government critic Kakwenza Rukirabashaija.
Photograph: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters
Rama, a 16-year-old Syrian refugee, holds a smiley face as she sits in the office of an organisation that cares for girls who have been forced into early marriage in Saadnayel, Lebanon. Rama was married at 14, divorced a year later and is a mother to an 18-month-old baby.
Photograph: Marwan Naamani/DPA
A protest on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, in response to the military coup in October last year. Last month, Adama Dieng, the UN’s expert on human rights in Sudan, visited the country to verify allegations of human rights violations. More than 80 people have been killed and hundreds injured by security forces in demonstrations so far.
Photograph: Marwan Ali/AP
Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
Wanda Cooper-Jones speaks about her murdered son Ahmaud Arbery on the second anniversary of his death in Atlanta, US. The three men convicted of his murder were found guilty of federal hate crimes last month, for violating Arbery’s civil rights and targeting him because he was Black.
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Photograph: Amnesty International/AFP/Getty
Banners in preparation for an International Women’s Day march in Istanbul, Turkey. Basic rights and protections won by Turkish women are increasingly under threat. Last year, the country withdrew from a landmark European legal convention designed to protect victims of male violence and prosecute offenders.
Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty
Volunteers and medical staff watch patients and their relatives being evacuated from Ohmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv to Poland. Attacks on hospitals, ambulances and other healthcare facilities in Ukraine have increased, and the country is running short of vital medical supplies, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
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A poster asking for justice for Berta Cáceres, an indigenous environmentalist from Honduras who was killed in March 2016. Last year, 358 human rights defenders were killed, according to a global analysis compiled by Front Line Defenders. Most of the victims worked on land, environmental and indigenous rights.
Photograph: Gustavo Amador/EPA
Photograph: Sáshenka Gutiérrez/EPA
‘Kill the bill’ protesters on a road in Cambridge, UK. Demonstrators fear the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill will increase police power and limit the right to protest as well as criminalise the way of life of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities because of harsher provisions for trespass laws.
Photograph: Martin Pope/Getty
A girl runs through the train station in Záhony, Hungary, after arriving from neighbouring Ukraine. More than 2.5 million refugees have already crossed borders since 24 February, when the Russian invasion began. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Women celebrate legal abortion in Bogotá, Colombia. Colombia has decriminalised abortion in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Previously, abortion in the country was allowed only where there was a risk to the life or health of the pregnant mother; the existence of life-threatening foetal malformations; or when the pregnancy was the result of rape, incest or non-consensual artificial insemination. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Loretta Ann P Rosales, a human rights activist, holds a mugshot from when she was arrested after martial law was declared in the Philippines in the 1970s. Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos who ruled at that time, is leading opinion polls in the run-up to the May election. Photograph: Maria Tan/AFP/Getty Ugandan torture survivors hold banners outside the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Kampala while police stand guard. They accuse the OHCHR of silence and inaction over torture by Ugandan security forces. Last month, Human Rights Watch urged authorities to investigate reports that military officers tortured satirical writer and government critic Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. Photograph: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters Rama, a 16-year-old Syrian refugee, holds a smiley face as she sits in the office of an organisation that cares for girls who have been forced into early marriage in Saadnayel, Lebanon. Rama was married at 14, divorced a year later and is a mother to an 18-month-old baby. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/DPA A protest on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, in response to the military coup in October last year. Last month, Adama Dieng, the UN’s expert on human rights in Sudan, visited the country to verify allegations of human rights violations. More than 80 people have been killed and hundreds injured by security forces in demonstrations so far. Photograph: Marwan Ali/AP Photograph: Michel Euler/AP Wanda Cooper-Jones speaks about her murdered son Ahmaud Arbery on the second anniversary of his death in Atlanta, US. The three men convicted of his murder were found guilty of federal hate crimes last month, for violating Arbery’s civil rights and targeting him because he was Black. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA Photograph: Amnesty International/AFP/Getty Banners in preparation for an International Women’s Day march in Istanbul, Turkey. Basic rights and protections won by Turkish women are increasingly under threat. Last year, the country withdrew from a landmark European legal convention designed to protect victims of male violence and prosecute offenders. Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Volunteers and medical staff watch patients and their relatives being evacuated from Ohmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv to Poland. Attacks on hospitals, ambulances and other healthcare facilities in Ukraine have increased, and the country is running short of vital medical supplies, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Photograph: Pierre Crom/Getty A poster asking for justice for Berta Cáceres, an indigenous environmentalist from Honduras who was killed in March 2016. Last year, 358 human rights defenders were killed, according to a global analysis compiled by Front Line Defenders. Most of the victims worked on land, environmental and indigenous rights. Photograph: Gustavo Amador/EPA Photograph: Sáshenka Gutiérrez/EPA ‘Kill the bill’ protesters on a road in Cambridge, UK. Demonstrators fear the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill will increase police power and limit the right to protest as well as criminalise the way of life of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities because of harsher provisions for trespass laws. Photograph: Martin Pope/Getty