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Harriet Barber

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Aug 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Harriet Barber

    They escaped south-east Asia’s scam compounds. Then they realised they were still trapped (opens the original)

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    The cyber-fraud industry has flourished in Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar, with thousands of people trafficked into the industry. But even those who have managed to find a way out often cannot return home Artillery fire thundered. Windows shattered. Roofs caved in. And thousands of foreign workers – many who had been tricked and trafficked into the vast cyber-fraud industry that has flourished in south-east Asia – fled. For a brief moment, the regional crackdown appeared to mark a turning po

  2. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Harriet Barber

    Five years into Taliban rule, Afghanistan plunges into a state of collapse – visualised (opens the original)

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    The stark figures show that since the hardliners seized power in 2021, women have been erased from public life, poverty is forcing hopeless families to marry off their daughters and healthcare is on the brink of failure ‘I married off my daughter so that none of us would die of hunger.” Malika hesitated before saying the words aloud. The 46-year-old lives with her husband and four youngest children (three girls and a boy) in Chihil Dukhtarān, one of Kabul’s poorest neighbourhoods. Poverty

  3. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Harriet Barber

    ‘They said I had to kill him’: the Haiti gangs forcing children into a life of brutality (opens the original)

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    With the state shattered, armed gangs offer food, shelter and perilous safety to young people – but at a terrible cost When Davensky was eight years old, he was kidnapped from school. An armed gang pulled a black bag over his head, dragged him from class and threw him into a truck. He was taken to an unknown location, stripped and locked inside a refrigerated room. Some time later, his captors handed him a gun. “They pointed to another child and said I had to kill him. It was a test. They sa

  4. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Harriet Barber

    ‘Here I can live a good life’: inside the Syrian commune where men are banned (opens the original)

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    The gates of Jinwar are guarded but inside is a peaceful refuge created by women escaping war and hardship. Photographer Matteo Trevisan documents life here and at other female-led communities in the country’s north-east A mother carrying a rifle on her shoulder and gripping a walkie-talkie stands guard at the entrance to Jinwar, a women-only commune in Syria. Beyond the gate, about 30 mud-brick houses dot the desert landscape, their gardens filled with flowers, vegetables and fruit trees. The

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