The government is facing growing calls to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group

I spoke with Iranians living in the UK who have backed the calls and said the gov’s position is “weak” and they fear for their safety in the UK

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These stark figures highlight the continuing inequalities facing Black women at every stage of the birthing journey.

The government must urgently set a binding target to end disparities and improve outcomes for Black mothers and birthing people.
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Families in Gaza have won a legal case against the Home Office after a judge ruled the department’s decisions were a “disproportionate interference” in their right to a family life

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Black women are six times more likely to experience some of the most serious birth complications during hospital delivery across England than their white counterparts, with the figures being described as “stark” and disheartening”, according to analysis.

“They’ve been deliberately targeting healthcare workers, healthcare vehicles, healthcare buildings since October 7th,” Nick Maynard told me

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We’ve spent the last few months making a film with women stuck in the asylum backlog: documenting their struggles, their hopes, dreams and life in shadows of the Rwanda scheme
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A collaborative video project, called Made in Britain w/ The Elephants Trail

People think the climate emergency will happen years away, in the global south, but it's already happening, here, in Europe, with devastating floods. For my new The Guardian series, I went to Belgium to tell the story of Rosa Reichel, who died at just 15 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Exc - A letter signed by almost 60 charities, law firms and organisations will be sent to the home secretary calling for the creation of a Ukraine-style visa scheme for Palestinians trapped in Gaza who have family in the UK

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“Black women do not get to make light of the wet or gafffe-making, impulsive remarks or off-colour comments. They do not get to have bad days.” Six years old but wearily relevant. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’m briefly crawling out of the trenches of maternity leave to announce my book Scattered is coming out on 6th June. It will be published by the brilliant Bloomsbury Books UK

I’ve been working on it for four years and I’m excited/terrified to put it out into the world!

Aspiring journalists!
3 great opportunities at the The Guardian!

1) If you need financial help for a postgrad journalism course, u can apply to have the fees paid

Plus
2) if you have a disability,
or
3) if you're a person of colour,
you can apply for the Positive Action Scheme

'It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.' apnews.com/article/israel…

Well, yes! For Vulture , I found the sad Oompa Loompa from Glasgow & interviewed her.

Meet Kirsty Paterson, who told me all about how she got roped into this fiasco & what’s it been like going viral for a photo she can’t stand.

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One of the biggest lies we're told is that green measures are bad for the poor.
The people who tell this lie invariably have no detectable prior concern for people in poverty. But they're deeply concerned about the profits of those poor fossil fuel firms.
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New Sir Michael Marmot analysis with Friends of the Earth finds 9.6 million UK households are living in heat-leaking, poorly insulated homes and have incomes below the minimum required for an acceptable standard of living @UCL
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Today we launch The Child Health Equity Framework alongside Barnardo’s, NHS South Yorkshire, NHS Birmingham and Solihull, and NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICSs.

The framework aims to direct interventions on the #socialdeterminants to achieve greater #healthequity for children and young people.

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Previous participants include
Reni Eddo-Lodge Ellen E Jones Frances Ryan homa khaleeli Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff micha frazer-carroll
Coco Khan Ιman Amrani | ايمان Nina Goswami Mehreen Khan Szu Ping Chan Samira Shackle Arj Singh
Siraj Datoo Kaamil Ahmed tobi thomas Aina J. Khan Mehreen Khan Szu Ping Chan
and many more

We Renters' Reform Coalition have analysis in The Guardian revealing:

🏘️14 of the the 47 MPs trying to water down the Renters (Reform) Bill are landlords, renting out a combined 52 properties.

💰 Half of top 10 MPs with biggest 'portfolios' are part of the effort.

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... tobi thomas Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Aletha Adu Poppy Noor Anjana Ahuja & many more

* The Legacies of Enslavement programme was launched last year, following the news that the Guardian's founders had links to transatlantic slavery

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