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Bhopal: the long flight from justice
Three decades after the Union Carbide disaster, the campaign for justice for the victims, and the effigy-burning, goes on.
Sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Photography by Simon Murphy Introduction by Billy Briggs The horror of sexual violence continues to destroy the lives…
African farmers evicted under guise of UK and US aid
Farmers and local communities in north-eastern Nigeria are losing their livelihoods, as an American prisons tycoon turns their…
Colombia: 50 years of human rights abuses – in pictures
Photos by Simon Murphy Introduction by Billy Briggs Colombia is a benighted land ravaged by civil war where…
Exposed – human trafficking for the sex industry in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso in West Africa has one of the worst human trafficking problems in the world with hundreds of victims forced into prostitution. Many young girls and boys are destined for Europe's sex industry but the authorities are ill equipped to deal with the problem and corruption is rife.
Meet the women fighting for Africa’s food future
This article was first published in June 2014. Africa is at a tipping point – soon the scale…