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A member of the Maori community reacts near Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

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New Zealand must protect trans communities and reject “woman” definition

people affected by flooding sit in a boat, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in village Arazi, in Sehwan, Pakistan, September 11, 2022. REUTERS/Yasir Rajput

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Climate change is undermining financial inclusion for the poor

A health surveillance assistant mixes chlorine with water to disinfect it at a health centre in response to the latest cholera outbreak in Blantyre, Malawi, November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Eldson Chagara

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Malawi President Chakwera-UK support critical for global health

Firefighters from the Bridada de Alter use fire management techniques to protect areas of ecological interest in Alter do Chao, Para State, Brazil. August 1, 2024. Brigada de Alter/Handout via Thomson Reuters Foundation

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I fight wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon. Polluters should pay

Street vendor arranges oranges at her stall in a women-led street market in Diyarbakir, Turkey December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar

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negar-mohtashami-khojasteh

Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights

Woman carries a box of fruit and vegetables in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 30, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

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At COP30 in Brazil, Lula can lead the world in transforming food

Nurse  takes the blood pressure of Malian refugee at a mobile healthcare center in a refugee camp.  REUTERS/Joe Penney

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In Mali, we have seen firsthand how USAID cuts have hit healthcare

A Batek indigenous woman, spends her evening in a hut along with other indigenous people, at the fringe of Malaysia's National Park in Gua Musang, Kelantan, Malaysia, May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain

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juan-carlos-jintiach

Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance

A girl walks at a beach damaged by erosion at Fuvahmulah December 9, 2009. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause

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How to defuse the climate-debt time bomb for small island states

Child gets their measurements to access nutritional status taken by the nutrition officer in Port Sudan, Red Sea State, Sudan May 2, 2024. Abubakar Garelnabei/WFP/Handout via REUTERS

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Nutrition can be golden thread for fragile aid system

A Syrian refugee girl stands near tents at an informal settlement in Bar Elias, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, December 13, 2024. REUTERS/Abdelaziz Boumzar

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No milk, no diapers - US aid cuts hit Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Greenpeace activists confront a deep sea mining vessel as it returned to port from eight weeks of test mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone between Mexico and Hawaii, off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Gustavo Graf

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What does Trump's deep-sea mining push mean for the ocean?

People believed to be asylum seekers stage a protest over the condition of their accommodation, outside of a hotel in London, Britain, June 2 2023

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AI will help make 'life-or-death' calls in rammed UK asylum system

A demonstrator holds a sign at a Rise Up for Trans Youth! event in New York City, U.S., February 8, 2025. REUTERS/Christian Monterrosa

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US states seek to roll back LGBTQ+ rights like never before

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?

Photos of deported veterans at the offices of Robert Vivar, in Tijuana, Mexico, February, 22 2023. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Manuel Ocano.

Deported: The Iraq War veterans denied the right to live in the US

Riot police and prison guards on alert inside the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, April 4, 2025. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nelson Renteria

Inside Trump's $6mn deportee deal with El Salvador mega-prison

A security camera overlooks a man as he walks down a street in London November 2, 2006. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

Half London councils found using Chinese surveillance tech linked to Uighur abuses

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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