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Rosie Swash

Rosie Swash a senior editor and reporter at the Guardian

May 2024

  • Manuel Guerrero Aviña

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Nothing short of horrific’: Amnesty criticises arrest of man in Qatar ‘trapped’ by police on Grindr

    Manuel Guerrero Aviña thought he was meeting a date, but was confronted by police who charged him for drug possession

March 2024

  • A woman stands facing some standing water, surrounded by washing spread out to dry.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Staggering’ rise in women with reproductive health issues near DRC cobalt mines – study

  • Two female medics in surgical scrubs, one washing her hands

    The future of work
    Rape and sexual harassment reported by foreign care workers across UK

January 2024

  • Kana Verheul, centre, with her niece, right, and her long-lost sister Taslima, left.

    Bangladesh: the adoption crisis
    The stranger across from me was my sister: how one adoptee uncovered a tragic past

  • Black and white photographs of Bangladeshi families and children

    Bangladesh: the adoption crisis
    Bangladesh launches investigation into children ‘wrongly’ adopted overseas

September 2023

  • Portrait of Bibi Hasenaar, holding a photo of herself and her brother. Bibi was adopted by Dutch parents at the age of four. Her mother in Bangladesh never agreed to the adoption and was looking for her daughter for years, but never found her. By chance, Bibi found out that her mother was looking for her when it was already too late. Then in her mid-forties, she realised the adoption had never been voluntary and sued the Dutch government and adoption companies. Muiderberg, The Netherlands. Photography by Judith Jockel. Birangona women of Bangladesh

    Today in Focus
    The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part three

    What would you do if everything you believed about your childhood was wrong? Rosie Swash and Thaslima Begum investigate an international adoption scandal that is still shattering lives today
  • Portrait Bibi Hasenaar. Bibi has been adopted by Dutch parents at the age of four. Her mother in Bangladesh had never agreed to the adoption and was looking for her daughter for years, while still living she never found her. By chance Bibi found out het mother was looking for her when it was already too late, she then in her mid fouties realized the adoption had never been voluntary and sued the Dutch government and adoption companies. Muiderberg, The Netherlands -Bibi holding a photo of her mother, Samina Begum Photography by Judith Jockel . - Birangona women of Bangladesh

    Today in Focus
    The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part two

    What would you do if everything you believed about your childhood was wrong? Rosie Swash and Thaslima Begum investigate an international adoption scandal that is still shattering lives today
  • Bibi Hasenaar holding her Bangladesh passport. She is four years old in the picture. Photograph by Judith Jockel

    Today in Focus
    The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part one

    What would you do if everything you believed about your childhood was wrong? Rosie Swash and Thaslima Begum investigate an international adoption scandal that is still shattering lives today

August 2023

  • Jane Radika

    Bangladesh: the adoption crisis
    ‘I’ll never know where I’m from’: plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh’s Birangona women

  • Portrait Bibi Hasenaar. Bibi has been adopted by Dutch parents at the age of four. Her mother in Bangladesh had never agreed to the adoption and was looking for her daughter for years, while still living she never found her. By chance Bibi found out het mother was looking for her when it was already too late, she then in her mid fouties realized the adoption had never been voluntary and sued the Dutch government and adoption companies. Muiderberg, The Netherlands Photography by Judith Jockel . - Birangona women of Bangladesh

    Bangladesh: the adoption crisis
    ‘My mother spent her life trying to find me’: the children who say they were wrongly taken for adoption

October 2022

  • From left: Sepideh Rashno; Mahsa Amini and Nika Shakarami

    Rights and freedom
    How three Iranian women spurred mass protests against hardline regime

  • Shervin Hajipour composite

    Rights and freedom
    Iran arrests musician as anthem for protests goes viral

August 2022

  • Afghan women from the 'group of six' speaking at the UN headquarters in October 2021, from left to right: Asila Wardak, Fawzia Koofi, Anisa Shaheed and Naheed Farid

    Rights and freedom
    ‘The Taliban don’t know how to govern’: the Afghan women shaping global policy from exile

  • Iran hijab 3 Sepideh Rashno (before arrest left/on TV right) Detained Hijab Protester Beaten Into ‘Forced Confessions’ Iranian activists have taken to social media to condemn the state-run television for airing ‘forced confessions’ of a detained anti-hijab protester last week. The state-run television (IRIB) on Sundayaired the so-called ‘confessions’ of Sepideh Rashno, a 28-year-old artist, writer and editor, who was arrested on July 16, after a video of her quarrel with a woman enforcing hijab rules – identified as Rayeheh Rabi’i -- went viral. In the video Rabi’i, who was fully covered by a long, black ‘chador’ – which is typical of the supporters of the Islamic Republic – is seen shouting at Rashno who had unveiled in a city bus. The quarrel became so frantic that other passengers intervened and kicked the hijab enforcer out of the bus.

    Rights and freedom
    Arrests and TV confessions as Iran cracks down on women’s ‘improper’ clothing

May 2022

  • Women Demonstrate Against Femicides In Mexico, Mexico City - 24 Apr 2022

    Human rights this fortnight – in pictures
    Roe v Wade and Sri Lanka curfews: human rights this fortnight – in pictures

    A roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from a march against femicide in Mexico City to an African migrant sit-in in Tunis

March 2022

  • A crowd of people try to board a train

    Rights and freedom
    As 1.3 million people flee, Ukraine’s refugee crisis is only just beginning

    Analysis: despite the EU’s solidarity in helping those escaping war, aid agencies are overwhelmed with many people stuck at borders

January 2022

  • The offices of the pro-choice Polish Women's Strike movement in Warsaw, Poland.

    Rights and freedom
    Death threats and phone calls: the women answering cries for help one year on from Poland’s abortion ban

    As new laws hit the most vulnerable pregnant women in need of care, volunteers struggle to help those unable to access safe abortions

October 2021

  • Protest against the tightening of the abortion law in Wroclaw

    Rights and freedom
    More than 30,000 Polish women sought illegal or foreign abortions since law change last year

    Tens of thousands have travelled to other European countries including England for legal terminations since near-total ban, campaigners say

July 2021

  • Ghalia

    Rights and freedom
    Denmark could face legal action over attempts to return Syrian refugees

    Rights groups say other European countries could follow, as Danish authorities use a report that deems Damascus safe to deny residency status

March 2015

  • Immigrants in their own words: 100 stories

    Immigration special
    Immigrants in their own words: 100 stories

    What pushed them away from their first homes, what pulled them to these shores, what new lives are they making in Britain? The Guardian asked immigrants living in the UK to tell us about their experiences. These are their stories
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