Section: News
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Community groups remind the world about Sudan’s forgotten war
Overshadowed by other international conflicts, an ongoing humanitarian disaster has been widely neglected by western governments and media outlets
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How doulas are helping to tackle inequality in maternity care
Research shows Muslim women are more likely to face discrimination during childbirth
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‘It causes us so much suffering’: are attitudes finally changing around period shame?
Many menstruating women grow up in households where periods are still seen as shameful. But a new generation is pushing back against the stigma
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‘It’s a dead town’: Bradford remains a victim of the decline of the UK high street
The cost of living crisis was just the latest blow to small businesses in the Yorkshire city. Can Bradford’s City of Culture status save the high street?
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Tax hikes and poor public services — the UK’s economic future looks bleak
Experts warn of anaemic growth and funding gaps to services. Yet neither Labour nor the Conservatives are willing to be honest about raising taxes
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The rising cost of Ramadan
Over the past two years, food prices have gone up rapidly. We look into how this will affect British Muslims during the holy month
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‘Overwhelming’ bias revealed in new report on UK media’s coverage of Israel-Palestine conflict
Researchers at the Centre for Media Monitoring analysed more than 200,000 news items in the month following 7 October and found coverage to be ‘disproportionately biased towards a pro-Israeli framing and narrative’
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NGOs call for the closure of ‘inhumane and degrading’ refugee camp on Greek island
Just two years after the hi-tech facility opened on Samos – at a cost of €43m to the EU – residents complain of lengthy water cuts, poor hygiene and police brutality
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‘I’m not interested in destroying institutions, I want to change them’
The founder of a London-based arts and education charity has spent nearly a decade helping inner city Black and Asian students to broaden their horizons
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‘There was a sense that nothing and no one was going to protect us besides us’
Four years after the Hanau terrorist attacks, the victims’ families reflect on Germany’s Islamophobia problem
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The German far right wants to ‘return’ migrants
Millions of Muslim migrants living in Germany have been thrown into anxious uncertainty by a proposal to ‘remigrate’ people who have failed to integrate
