Patricia R. Blanco

Maternal mortality and the rate of teenage pregnancies have improved globally in recent decades. However, these figures have worsened ‘in an alarming number of countries,’ according to the latest report by the United Nations Population Fund

The civil war that has been devastating the African country for almost a year has produced the largest number of internally displaced individuals in the world and a famine emergency affecting five million people. It also looms as a regional conflict

The artist has focused her work on the beauty of the women of Afghanistan, working around wars and patriarchal restrictions. Since the Taliban returned to power, she has been living as a refugee in Paris. She tells EL PAÍS that the group has created a system of ‘gender apartheid that makes life impossible’

Relatives of missing girls and women denounce the lack of investigations and the limited number of convictions. NGOs are working to rescue victims, while the government is attempting to strengthen the police and judicial bodies to combat this widespread crime

The United Nations expert on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has demanded that Western governments move from condemnation to action

The NGO’s annual report warns against double standards in established democracies and the risks of impunity for regimes that violate individual and collective freedoms

Seven departments in the country have already declared an emergency due to the lack of water. If the drought continues, cities like La Paz and El Alto will be left without water, while the inhabitants of rural areas will be forced to migrate to large cities

The Ecuadorian justice system has recognized that this Amazonian community is the rightful owner of 42,360 hectares in Pë'këya, an area that contains the tribe’s most important sacred places

International humanitarian law expressly prohibits attacks on health centers, unless they are used to commit ‘acts harmful to the enemy.’ However, even in this case, an operation that puts the lives of civilians at risk is not lawful

Thousands of people are returning to Afghanistan after the deadline given by the Pakistani authorities to irregular immigrants expires. The situation is aggravating the fragility of a country plunged into the abyss since the return of the Taliban

Some 50,000 pregnant women live in the enclave, of whom around 5,500 will give birth during the month, which is more than 180 births per day, according to the U.N. Neither mothers nor newborns are receiving the assistance they need

The Gaza Ministry of Health says over 7,300 people have been killed, a figure questioned by Israel, the US and Germany

Twenty Palestinian journalists have died as a result of airstrikes by the Israeli army, and 50 media outlets have been destroyed or damaged.

The ambition for self-determination faces the obstacle of the impossibility of exercising total sovereignty in Gaza and the West Bank

Palestinians on the Strip have only three liters of water a day, because Israel is blocking the supplies and energy needed to keep supply and distribution facilities running

Health centers barely have any drinking water, food, medicine or beds left to care for the injured, whose numbers keep rising as a result of ongoing Israeli airstrikes

Taliban regime leaders met with NGOs to coordinate humanitarian assistance and temporarily allow women to do more work to help the affected population

More than 80% of European and East and Southeast Asian ships end up being dismantled on three Asian beaches to save costs, evading international regulations, in a process that is dangerous for the people and the environment, denounces Human Rights Watch

The educator established a school for girls in Kabul and relocated it to Rwanda in 2021 when the Taliban returned to power

The far-right spreads lies about these goals — which were agreed upon by world leaders in 2015 — in order to boycott the progressive agenda

A study by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation states that the world is experiencing an epidemic of maternal and child mortality

Only 20% of 95 states analyzed in an agency report have succeeded in reducing poverty levels since 2019, which has been exacerbated by pandemic, debt and the war in Ukraine

This South Korean priest, founder of the Caleb Mission church, has managed to save ‘more than 1,000′ people in the last 20 years. ‘Currently, there are more than 200 who have contacted us to be rescued,’ he says

Practices such as arbitrary detention, torture, or the use of artificial intelligence to control dissidents are common in most authoritarian regimes, according to activists gathered at the Oslo Freedom Forum

U.N. Special Rapporteur Michel Forst talks to EL PAÍS about his effort to protect environmentalists, who he says are facing rising attacks across the world

The extraction industry is growing and fueling the conflict between the country’s rival generals, as well as aiding Russia’s war effort in Ukraine. But much of it is being smuggled out, depriving the state of much-needed revenue