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Sarah Morrison

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Sarah Morrison is the Human Rights Correspondent at The Independent, i and The Independent on Sunday

The 21-year-old is the first trans man to top the Rainbow List
The Rainbow list

Rainbow List 2015: Interview with No 1 Riley Carter Millington

The Rainbow list

Rainbow List 2015: 1 to 101

The Rainbow list

The Rainbow List 2015: A celebration of pioneers and influencers

Michael Nari donated the mother's deposit to StoneWall, an LGBT charity
The Rainbow list

Rainbow List 2015: Time to meet the judges

Michael Nari donated the mother's deposit to StoneWall, an LGBT charity
The Rainbow list

Rainbow List to feature intersex people for the first time this year

Cassiterite miners in South Kivu
Africa

'Conflict minerals' funding deadly violence in the Democratic Republic

People

Jack Petchey: 'It's easier now for people to get on than ever before'

Africa

Plight of missing Nigerian schoolgirls highlights an underlying lack

Home News

Settlements approved for families of 10 children made seriously ill by

Features

Cityfathers tackles long-hours culture that causes men to miss out on

UK Politics

Mother who is battling FGM will be sent back to Nigeria

Najneen Nazma with six-month-old Junayed
Asia

No compensation for Rana Plaza widow, one year on

United Nations special rapporteur Rashida Manjoo addresses journalists in central London
UK Politics

UN human rights investigator denied access to immigrants

UK Politics

UN human rights investigator denied access to immigrants

United Nations special rapporteur Rashida Manjoo addresses journalists in central London
Baroness refused to be drawn 'off script' when discussing human rights
Profiles

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi: Stirring the Eton Mess

Without further action, temperatures will increase from about four to five per cent compared with pre-industrial levels
News

Scientific body warns of 'devastating rise of 4-5C if we carry on as

Theresa May has been ordered to reach a new decision by 9 August
UK Politics

High Court judge orders May to review aid for asylum seekers

Home News

Jobless youths facing a bleak future, says report

Home News

Jobless youths facing a bleak future, says report

Centre stage: Judith Hill gained global attention when she sang at Michael Jackson’s memorial service
Features

Judith Hill: A little voice grows louder

Romy Gill
Home News

‘Inspirational’ Asian women are named for awards

XXXora was born with ambiguous sexual organs but was raised as a boy
Features

'Androgyny is all around us': Meet XXXora, a hermaphrodite on a

Nic Pettit and Tania Ward will have a Jewish blessing at their wedding reception
Home News

A big day for Tania and Nic as fathers walk them down aisle

The former action star held stock in a fund that invests in logging companies
News

Arnold Schwarzenegger accused of profiting from deforestation

Peter McGraith and David Cabreza, the first same-sex couple to marry under UK law
Health News

From next Saturday: Same-sex marriage is about to become legal

Jasvinder Sanghera, founder of the Karma Nirvana charity
Crime

Record numbers contact helpline for forced marriage and honour-based

TV & Radio

Scientist (PhD in astrophysics) shocked by reference to her ethnicity

Peter McGraith and David Cabreza, the first same-sex couple to marry under UK law
Health News

From next Saturday: Same-sex marriage is about to become legal

Jasvinder Sanghera, founder of the Karma Nirvana charity
Crime

Record numbers contact helpline for forced marriage and honour-based

TV & Radio

Scientist (PhD in astrophysics) shocked by reference to her ethnicity

Africa

The majority of international aid is not reaching the countries that

Africa

The majority of international aid is not reaching the countries that

Steven Neary (right, with his father Mark) was unlawfully detained in a care unit for nearly a year
Health News

The great mental health betrayal: Tens of thousands of vulnerable

Books published by a company owned by Michael O’Mara have been accused of ‘alienating’ children
News

Gender-specific children’s books ‘are easier to sell’, insists

One voice: Demonstrators in London
World Politics

International Women's Day: Where do we go next on the road to global

Joshua French listens to testmony during his trial in Ndolo military prison in Kinshasa, watched by his mother, Kari Hilde French
New Articles

Mother appeals to Cameron to save her son on death row in Congo

Joshua French listens to testmony during his trial in Ndolo military prison in Kinshasa, watched by his mother, Kari Hilde French
New Articles

Mother appeals to Cameron to save her son on death row in Congo

Middle East

'No one cares': The tragic truth of Syria's 500,000 refugee children

The Elephant Appeal raised a clamour ahead of the conference last week
Elephant Campaign

£500,000 raised to help stop the elephant crisis

Dietrich Wagner, a German pensioner who was blinded by a police water cannon during an environmental protest in Stuttgart
UK Politics

Blinded German warns Britain against adopting water cannon

Speaking out: Prince William at the conference last Wednesday
News

Campaign: Prince William wants 'all royal ivory destroyed'

Campaigners protest against the illegal trade in wildlife outside the conference venue, Lancaster House in London, yesterday
News

World leaders say enough is enough on illegal ivory: Agreement to stop

Elephants in the dust
Comment

World-leading conservationists join together to put a stop to illegal

Ecologist Paula Kahumbu says the answers must come from Africa, and from African women
Elephant Campaign

Dr Paula Kahumbu interview: Africans must be equal partners in a war

Frank Mugisha, the 32-year-old Ugandan activist, faces extreme violence in his own country
Profiles

Frank Mugisha: 'Homophobia is not African. It's imported'

Comment

Time to hunt down the ‘kingpins’ of wildlife crime

Life saver: John Kasaona, whose father used to hunt animals in Namibia, now protects them
News

Charity Appeal: Namibia's leap from poaching to protection

The Transkie
Africa

From West to Wild: A coastal adventure in South Africa

Africa

From West to Wild: A coastal adventure in South Africa

The Transkie
The Transkie
Africa

From West to Wild: A coastal adventure in South Africa

Comment

Debate: Should ivory stockpiles be destroyed?

Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire, Britain’s largest Immigration Removal Centre
Home News

Handling of female asylum seekers ‘puts UK to shame’

This Britain

Three Generations of Women: telling the stories of 100 years of

This Britain

Three Generations of Women: telling the stories of 100 years of

Supply and demand: White rhinos at the Entabeni Safari Conservancy, Limpopo, South Africa
Asia

Protesters lock horns with China over ivory as campaigners look into

Lush often uses its front windows to campaign against social injustice
Home News

Cosmetics chain Lush stands up for gay rights in run up to Sochi

Liquid assets: GiveDirectly has transferred about $6.3m to 6,000 households in Africa
Africa

Direct debit: The charity GiveDirectly donates cash straight to people

HIV rates are rising among gay men in London as more are injecting drugs such as crystal meth
Crime

Experts warn of rise in gay ‘slamming’

Stigmatised: Amal Farah has not seen her family for eight years after telling them she had become an atheist
Home News

Allah vs atheism: ‘Leaving Islam was the hardest thing I’ve

Stigmatised: Amal Farah has not seen her family for eight years after telling them she had become an atheist
Home News

Allah vs atheism: ‘Leaving Islam was the hardest thing I’ve

Tens of thousands of Dawoodi Bohra Muslims from all over India and other countries headed to Mumbai for Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin's funeral
Asia

Stampede at Mumbai funeral leaves 18 dead as as thousands mourn Muslim

The rise in the cost of groceries has contributed to the rise in people using food banks, such as this one in Poplar
UK Politics

Britain ‘put profits of banks ahead of EU curbs on food

Jonny Benjamin has launched the 'Finding Mike' campaign to track down the man who saved his life
Home News

Man saved from suicide attempt six years ago is searching for the

‘Ray’, Alexei Davydov and Nikita Guryanov, three members of Russia’s LGBT community, say they have been discriminated against since laws banning ‘homosexual propaganda’ were introduced
Europe

Vladimir Putin’s attack on homosexuality is shattering the lives of

Burnt out cars lie in the road after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011
Crime

Reaction from the streets of Tottenham: ‘There will be plenty more

Crime

Reaction from the streets of Tottenham: ‘There will be plenty more

Burnt out cars lie in the road after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011
Frustrated passengers wait in the departure hall of Gatwick's North Terminal on Christmas Eve
Home News

Gatwick bosses learned of Christmas Eve flood just half an hour before

Comment

Time is running out fast for Tanzania’s elephant herds

Swinson criticised the fact that MPs do not automatically get maternity leave
Features

Babies and the House of Commons: an impossible juggling act and a bad

Health News

First there was the 5:2 diet, then the 2:5, then the 4:3... Where will

Health News

First there was the 5:2 diet, then the 2:5, then the 4:3... Where will

Poverty trap: Elephants in Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, where the husband of Juliana Nginga (top right) was killed; widow Ferdinanda Kalinga with her son Jackson Lusela, 21 (bottom right)
Comment

Charity Appeal: Global greed for ivory that makes widows of poachers'

Wild and dangerous? Because elephants and humans live so closely in Kenya there are sometimes accidents
News

Charity Appeal: Kenya's daily battle between humans and wildlife

Smuggled goods: Kenya Wildlife Service rangers with confiscated ivory found in a truck’s secret compartment earlier this year
News

Charity Appeal: 'The way to stop poaching is to use people like me,'

Kenya Wildlife Service rangers live on the edge of Ramuruti forest in Laikipia, Kenya where they patrol as a way to deter poachers
Comment

The human cost of the demand for ivory

News

IoS Charity Appeal: The DNA trap to catch ivory poachers

Police officers detain a gay rights activist during a protest in Russia. Irina Putilova has said that the new anti-gay legislation in Russia had increased homophobic violence
Home News

Russian bisexual activist Irina Putilova is released from detention

Police officers detain a gay rights activist during an unauthorized protest - Irina Putilova has said that the new anti-gay legislation in Russia had increased homophobic violence
Europe

Bisexual Russian activist fears for her safety after British

Crime

Lee Rigby murder trial: Fusilier’s widow walks out as court is shown

Jo, Sarah, Dawn and Holly from Intersex UK
Home News

Intersex women speak out to protect the next generation

Jo, Sarah, Dawn and Holly from Intersex UK
Home News

Intersex women speak out to protect the next generation

Nigel Kershaw has been at The Big Issue for almost two decades
Home News

The heroes who invest in people: Five candidates from five different

Jeremy Scahill's new award-winning film Dirty Wars, an adaptation of his second book, is coming to cinema screens soon
Press

Jeremy Scahill: From pursuing Washington over its secret war on terror

Health News

Patient care and choice is at risk, say senior NHS figures

Eligible adults may be given flu vaccine vouchers to use at their local pharmacies
Health News

Getting vaccinated is a civic duty, warn health experts

Power in pop: Miley Cyrus at a recent red carpet event
News

Leave Miley and Lily alone! The shock new faces of feminism

Making a statement: Lily Allen's song 'Hard Out Here' takes on the stereotypical sexism of music videos, despite the scantily dressed dancers
Comment

Lily Allen is right to aim at misogyny in the music industry - but her

Eligible adults may be given flu vaccine vouchers to use at their local pharmacies
Health News

Getting vaccinated is a civic duty, warn health experts

Power in pop: Miley Cyrus at a recent red carpet event
News

Leave Miley and Lily alone! The shock new faces of feminism

Making a statement: Lily Allen's song 'Hard Out Here' takes on the stereotypical sexism of music videos, despite the scantily dressed dancers
Comment

Lily Allen is right to aim at misogyny in the music industry - but her

Miley Cyrus' mow infamous performance with Robin Thicke has sparked fresh debate
News

Fresh calls for age ratings on pop videos

In the air: Will Ryanair’s customer service be overhauled?
Comment

Dear Ryanair: A real apology would be a start

Mufti Ismail Menk has described same-sex acts as 'filthy' and 'wrong'
News

Universities cancel Muslim cleric’s speaking tour over concerns

Boden's latest model, seven-year-old Holly Greenhow (far left), has athetoid cerebral palsy
Features

Boden's campaign features a girl with cerebral palsy but disabled

The 2013 Rugby League World Cup opening ceremony
Rugby League

Rugby League World Cup: Warm-up is just like a roller-disco for very

Home News

Oxfam to cut UK jobs and shift focus to global south

Liz Reeder, 45, lives alone in north London and works as a quality auditor at Dimensions.
UK Politics

John Bercow says politics 'must be more accessible' after research

News

Natural disaster: Government's new index reveals huge decline for

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