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A ‘Reclaim These Streets’ protest outside Cardiff Bay police station on 15 March. The Labour party announced it would oppose the government’s plan to give police greater powers to crack down on peaceful protest.
Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty
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An officer lowers the national flag at a square in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 23 March, where a UN resolution on human rights abuses was hailed as a ‘crucial turning point for justice’ for victims of the country’s near 30-year-long civil war.
Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
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Norway’s football team wear T-shirts bearing the message ‘human rights on and off the pitch’ before a qualifying match for the World Cup on 24 March. There has been a debate in Norway about whether the country should boycott the 2022 World Cup in Qatar because of poor working conditions for migrant workers and human rights concerns there.
Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters
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A woman carries her suitcase through Beirut hours before her repatriation to Sierra Leone. Lebanon attracts some 250,000 migrant women from African and Asian countries to private households. The kafala system – private migration sponsorship in the Middle East – exponentially increases the risk of labour exploitation, forced labour and trafficking.
Photograph: Aline Deschamps/Getty Images
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A rubber duck, symbol of Thai protests, is seen at a pro-democracy rally on 24 March demonstrating against the use of section 112, Thailand’s lese-majesty law, to jail protest leaders, and calling for governmental reform and the removal of the prime minister, Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Photograph: Getty
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Displaced peoples of the Philippines’ Dumagat tribe take refuge in a village plaza after fleeing their homes in the Sierra Madre mountains in fear of government troops. Two members, Randy and Puroy dela Cruz, were among nine advocates of indigenous rights killed in government raids near Manila. UN officials have condemned the killings and, in the Philippines, the independent human rights commission said it had sent a team to investigate the deaths.
Photograph: Jes Aznar/Getty
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The Egyptian campaigner Nawal El Saadawi has died aged 89. The doctor, feminist and writer was dedicated to improving the political and sexual rights of women, and inspired generations. She visited the Occupy London camp at St Paul’s on her 80th birthday.
Photograph: Jenny Matthews#Corbis/Corbis/Getty
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Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez poses with human rights activists and victims’ relatives on 23 March – eve of the 45th anniversary of the military coup.
Photograph: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty
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A woman working in a garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, as the country marked 50 years of independence. Its economic success story is marred by an increasingly repressive de facto one-party state, where a Facebook post can land you in jail.
Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty
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A mural at a government clinic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, depicts, from right, the prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin; its health director general, Noor Hisham Abdullah, and a health worker. Human Rights Watch has urged the government to revoke its ‘fake news’ law, which makes it a criminal offence to create, publish, or disseminate ‘fake news’ about Covid.
Photograph: Fazry Ismail/EPA
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Makeshift barricades at a demonstration against the coup in Myanmar, where police and soldiers attacked protesters with rubber bullets, live ammunition, teargas and stun grenades. At least 149 people have been killed in Myanmar since the 1 February coup, the UN said.
Photograph: Aung Kyaw Htet/Sopa/Rex/Shutterstock
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A resident at the Centre for Women’s Rights’ hostel in Warsaw, Poland. Europe has seen a surge in domestic violence, according to the World Health Organization, with the centre reporting a 50% rise in calls to its domestic violence hotline.
Photograph: Maciek Nabrdalik/VII for Stanley Center
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The Kenyan poet Oula Agira, 26, known as Miko Migra, as World Poetry Day was celebrated on 21 March. He is one of the artists from Mathare slum in Nairobi using poetry and music to campaign for social justice. He says: ‘We use art as a soft power to advocate for peace and human rights.’
Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA
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An art installation by SumOfUs portrays the bosses of Google (Sundar Pichai), Twitter (Jack Dorsey) and Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) as rioters at the US Capitol in Washington on 25 March, as a report was released on social media’s role in promoting extremism and misinformation in the run-up to the riot.
Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
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It is more than 50 years since Claudia Andujar began photographing the Yanomami, the people of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Now 89, she is using her archive to increase their visibility at a time when their survival is under renewed threat.
Photograph: Courtesy of Barbican Centre
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Migrants stranded in Serbia and trying to cross into the EU at Hungary’s Horgos border crossing say they are being monitored with drones, thermal cameras and heartbeat detectors.
Photograph: Kevin McElvaney
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A young migrant at the Foyer Saint-Just shelter in Marseille. Campaigners have severely criticised shortcomings in southern France over the reception of young migrants. There are more than 100 foreign minors on the street, making them easy prey for criminals, while others live in poor conditions.
Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty
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Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial and arbitrary executions, who has received death threats after she delivered a report on the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Geneva. On 25 March a Saudi official denied he threatened the investigator after the 2018 murder, but the UN has confirmed she had received a death threat.
Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
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Smoke is released by an anti-fascist activist near an image of the human rights activist Marielle Franco to mark the third anniversary of her murder in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 14 March.
Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters
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A sign is laid on the grass during a Stop Asian Hate rally in Houston, Texas, on 20 March, after another mass killing in the US at which Asian Americans appeared to be targeted.
Photograph: Mark Felix/AFP/Getty
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An exhibition of images from China’s north-western Xinjiang region, organised by the China Photographers’ Association in Beijing on 24 March. China has bristled after western nations imposed sanctions over its treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, the first concerted international action against Beijing since Joe Biden took office. On 22 March, the EU, UK and Canada joined Washington in blacklisting officials in Xinjiang.
Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty
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Protesters gather on 14 March in Parliament Square, London, in a ‘Reclaim These Streets’ rally, after the kidnapping and killing of Sarah Everard. A police officer has been charged with her murder.
Photograph: Tayfun Salci/Avalon
