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A care home worker serves a meal to a resident at a care home in south London, Britain, July 29, 2023. REUTERS/Hollie Adams

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I came to UK from Zimbabwe as a care worker, but ended up homeless

Amirul Rajiv and Naim Ul Hasan, two coordinators of Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement, pose before the makeshift tent where they have been staging a sit-in for more than four months, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 26, 2025. Md. Tahmid Zami/ Thomson Reuters Foundation

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No trees, no birds, no shade: A sit-in for Dhaka's last parks

An Afghan refugee woman sits with her daughter as Pakistan warns undocumented immigrants to leave in Azakhel town in Nowshera, Pakistan October 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

"No place to call home": First Taliban, then Trump denies Afghans

Lailah got on a bus to Kenya with her children after her house in Kampala was set on fire. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Karif Wat

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‘My father chased me away’: From Uganda to Canada as a refugee

Ronnie (left), a Ugandan refugee living in Kenya, shares his story with Context reporter Enrique Anarte (middle) and videographer Nyasha Kadandara (right), in Nairobi, on July 12, 2024. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Evelyn Kahungu

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Reporter’s notebook: Meeting LGBTQ+ refugees in Kenya

People walk past a COP29 logo during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), in Baku, Azerbaijan November 14, 2024. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

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Reporter's Notebook: Following Trump's climate shadow at COP29

Venezuelan migrant Macyuli, traveling with her four children and husband, and other Venezuelan families, walks along the jungle path through the Darién Gap carrying her daughter. Darién Gap, Colombia, July 27, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Fabio Cuttica

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Why it's impossible to close the Darién Gap with barbed-wire

Narendra Singh, a water tanker driver, drives his truck to deliver water at low-income neighbourhoods in Delhi, India, June, 23, 2024. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Prabhat Mehrotra

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Water tanker drivers a lifeline as Delhi gripped by extreme heat

Men use a stole to cover from heat as they wait in a line outside a polling station to cast their votes during the sixth phase of India's general election, on a hot summer day in Bhubaneswar, India, May 25, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer

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'My body and phones gave up': covering India's heatwave election

A welcome sign points participants to the first citizen’s assembly on air quality held in the London borough of Wandsworth, February 25, 2023. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Laurie Goering

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Can citizens play a part in cleaning London's air? I gave it a go

Demonstrators rally on Cambridge Common in a protest organized by the City of Cambridge calling on Harvard leadership to resist interference at the university by the federal government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. April 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi

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'Silenced and monitored': Foreign students scrub social media after US visa move

An illustration showing an elderly person from the back, with a side-on view of a carer who is holding the patient under the arm and helping them to walk.

UK migrant carers 'owed huge sums' in visa scheme 'scandal'

Women work inside a factory at Bonda Women Craft Centre, a reusable sanitary pads manufacturing company in Mutasa district, in Mutare, Zimbabwe, July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

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'Dignity for all who bleed': Trans, non-binary Kenyans face menstruation stigma

Miners stand at the coalface at about 1000 meters underground at the Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka S.A. coal mine in Bogdanka, Poland October 24, 2024. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Where is the money the EU promised workers to go green?

A demonstrator uses a megaphone during a protest on LGBT Pride Day in Valencia, Spain, June 28, 2021. REUTERS/Eva Manez

'Trump effect' hits Pride marches in Europe as sponsors pull out

A person holds a phone showing a screenshot of the AI art app Girl. July 16. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Adam Smith

Deepfake porn tools bypass safeguards to hide in Apple app store

A graduating student wears their hat decorated with a statement of support for international students at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 29, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Panic and Plan B: How the US visa pause impacts Indian students

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he holds hands with his wife Melania during his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

What does a Donald Trump presidency mean for LGBTQ+ rights?

People hold pro-trans signs after a hearing in the multi-state lawsuit over President Trump's order ending all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids gender transitions for people younger than 19, outside a courthouse in Seattle, Washington, U.S., February 28, 2025. REUTERS/David Ryder

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