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Engineering the future: meet the Africa prize shortlist innovators
Turning invasive plants into a force for good and powering healthcare with solar – here are three of the 2022 nominees
Jo Griffin
27, Dec, 2021 @10:00 AM
Armed attack on Brazilian Amazon community while delegate at Cop26
Witnesses say tents in forest in disputed area of Pará state set alight and residents beaten
Jo Griffin
08, Nov, 2021 @11:09 AM
Bolsonaro blocks free tampons and pads for disadvantaged women in Brazil
Campaigners say president’s veto is ‘absurd and inhumane’ in country where period poverty keeps one in four girls out of school
Jo Griffin
11, Oct, 2021 @11:02 AM
After silent fury and schadenfreude, there’s harmony at home as England face Germany
I married a German and quietly seethed through their triumphs – until my mother in law showed me watching football need not be so fraught
Jo Griffin
27, Jun, 2021 @10:00 AM
UK introducing three laws that threaten human rights, says UN expert
Proposed changes to policing, surveillance and judicial review will jeopardise right to peaceful protest, says special rapporteur
Jo Griffin
24, Jun, 2021 @2:58 PM
‘Disability is possibility’: a mission to bust myths in India – photo essay
Photographer Vicky Roy has been travelling the country documenting people with disabilities through the Everyone is Good at Something project
Jo Griffin
17, Jun, 2021 @10:35 AM
UK cuts grants for small aid charities to save ‘less than cost of No 10 press room’
Hospital in Zanzibar and support for child workers in Bangladesh among projects to miss out as nearly £2m of funding is cancelled
Jo Griffin
06, May, 2021 @11:30 AM
‘Shortsighted’: UK cuts aid to project preparing cities for natural disaster
From Quito to Kathmandu, millions will be endangered by cuts affecting planning for floods, earthquakes and fires, experts say
Jo Griffin
27, Apr, 2021 @5:00 AM
'The Yanomami could disappear' – photographer Claudia Andujar on a people under threat in Brazil
Andujar lived with the tribe and fights for them. A timely show of her images comes to London soon
Jo Griffin
25, Mar, 2021 @8:15 AM
Hopes, dreams and fears: the world of teenage girls through their diaries
To mark International Women’s Day, explore beyond the stereotypes with Masuma Ahuja’s book Girlhood, a collection of diary entries from girls around the world
Jo Griffin
08, Mar, 2021 @6:00 AM
Nightlife meets wildlife: the albums mixing birdsong and techno beats
A Bogotà nightclub has used the sounds of animals and birds in the Colombian capital to make a new kind of dance track
Jo Griffin
12, Feb, 2021 @11:00 AM
Police accused of unprovoked assault on HS2 protester
Activist’s claim of assault on bypass adds to litany of alleged violations of human rights sent to UN rapporteurs
Jo Griffin in Jones Hill wood, Aylesbury
10, Oct, 2020 @4:25 PM
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