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Women’s safety

Fighting for justice

Domestic violence is widespread in Brazil and has deep cultural roots

Narrating history

So as not to forget

Guatemala’s Casa de la Memoria, a history museum, highlights the country’s many episodes of civil strife

Blog

In Delhi, fire has followed hate speech

Politically motivated rioting is engulfing north-eastern Delhi

Protest movement

Reciting the constitution

Muslim women are leading India’s nation-wide movement to protect the constitution

Right-wing politics

Muslims’ grievances in Modi’s India

How India’s government is targeting the country’s largest minority

Pakistan

Ex-dictator sentenced to death

Why former dictator Musharraf’s recent conviction of high treason in Pakistan is indeed a historic judgment

Violence against women

Wheels of justice

Malawi police move deliberately to investigate officers accused of rape

Governance

Restricted freedom

People in Benin wonder what EU Ambassador Oliver Nette, who was sent home by their government, did wrong

Media literacy

Telling good information from bad

Guatemala’s disadvantaged children are learning to distinguish good information from misinformation, in a pioneering media outreach project

Human rights

Battle cry “blasphemy”

Laws against “blasphemy”, “defamation of religion” and “apostasy” are incompatible with universal human rights

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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.