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Sarah Johnson

Sarah Johnson is a reporter focusing on human rights and global development. Twitter @sajajohnson

January 2025

  • An African man, in a cage, being put in handcuffs by a uniformed officer.

    Lawyer for Ugandan opposition politician ‘arrested and tortured’

  • A screengrab of a man's face

    Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
    ‘It’s an enormous emergency’: the doctor saving Sudan’s most vulnerable

  • Women gather at a public water point in Mtandile township in Lilongwe, Malawi.

    ‘I’ve seen women suffer’: Malawi’s religious leaders fight for legal abortions

  • cans of soft drinks in a fridge

    A common condition
    Sugary drinks linked to millions of new diabetes and heart disease cases – study

  • Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
    ‘A glimpse of hope’: how Observer readers are helping mend broken lives in war-torn lands

  • Massive cleanup under way in Ghana after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets

December 2024

  • Snoop Dogg makes an appearance before the Arizona Bowl NCAA college football game wearing a black baseball cap with 'Gin and Juice' written on it

    Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre sample song by London learning disabilities charity

  • A woman wearing a floral skirt over pink petticoats and boots with crampons uses ice axes to climb a steep snowy mountainside

    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part one

  • A Bolivian Indigenous woman wearing purple is reflected in the wing mirror of a car

    Women at the wheel: the female taxi services bringing safety and independence to Bolivian travel

  • A street protest with women waving green scarves with the slogan #JusticeforBeatriz, a picture of a woman and lines in Spanish that translate as “Beatriz wanted to live and be happy. Her strength is her right to decide.”

    Beatriz v El Salvador: the abortion case that could set a precedent across Latin America

November 2024

  • Children watch a teacher in a shell of a building with no roof

    Eight times more children will face extreme heatwaves by 2050s, Unicef says

    Without action on climate crisis, far greater numbers of children will also experience floods, wildfires and droughts, according to report
  • A woman with three small children huddle by a fire in a metal container amid rubble in a refugee camp

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Almost unparalleled suffering’ in Gaza as UN says nearly 70% of those killed are women and children

    Head of the Norwegian Refugee Council calls for peace process to begin as new figures reveal civilians have borne the brunt of the war

    • Middle East crisis live
      More than 60 arrests in Amsterdam after attacks on Israeli football fans – as it happened

    • Eight countries pledge to ban corporal punishment in ‘fundamental shift’ for children

    • ‘I do an illegal job, stealing’: the women forced to scavenge in Bolivia’s tin mines

October 2024

  • A twisted worm, stained purple, on a slide

    A common condition
    Growth the size of a melon: a scrotum-swelling disease threatening thousands

  • Three women, one in a hard hat

    ‘Many are obliged to sleep with the foreman’: Bolivia’s female builders square up to an abusive system

September 2024

  • The Indigenous female mountain guide breaking barriers in Bolivia – video

    As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape – and has her sights set on Everest.
  • A shot looking upwards at a woman climbing a sheer wall of ice. She smiles at the camera and holds up an ice pick, while the wind blows her skirt, which has red and pink flowers on it and frilly bright pink petticoats underneath.

    ‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit

    As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape, and she has no plans to slow down
  • Two Indigenous Andean women walk along a path on a raised ground beside a rubbish-strewn lake

    ‘We empower ourselves’: the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru

    Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem
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