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Holly Young

Holly Young is a freelance journalist based in Berlin. She was previously deputy editor of the Guardian's Global Development Professionals Network

July 2022

  • pigs

    Animals farmed
    ‘Like a giant sewage plant’: how Germany’s ‘pig belt’ got too big

    It’s going to take a long time to repair the damage of an oversized pig industry and its waste, say officials in the northwest state of Lower Saxony

September 2021

  • Horsens meat plant in northern Denmark, run by Danish Crown

    Animals farmed
    ‘We have to fight for these conditions’: why Danish meat plant workers are Europe’s best paid

    Denmark has secured decent pay and conditions within the sector. Will other EU countries finally follow suit?
  • The Netherlands is the largest meat exporter in the EU, with most going to the UK and Germany

    Animals farmed
    Low pay, long hours, broken dreams: working at Europe’s biggest meat exporter

    Temporary staff at meat plants in the Netherlands share none of the success of the booming industry as agencies withhold pay and threaten eviction

    • Animals farmed
      The invisible migrant workers propping up Ireland’s €4bn meat industry

    • Animals farmed
      Revealed: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe

    • Animals farmed
      ‘The whole system is rotten’: life inside Europe’s meat industry

August 2020

  • Workers arrive at the meat plant in Helmond

    Animals farmed
    'I feel worthless': workers tell of gruelling life in Dutch meat plants

    The Netherlands is a food powerhouse but its dark underbelly has been exposed by Covid-19, say unions

June 2020

  • Live cattle in truck

    Animals farmed
    Campaigners welcome 'historic' EU inquiry into live animal transport

    Report will look at suspected lack of welfare regulation enforcement, as growth in exports sees livestock journeys increase

May 2020

  • A nurse measures the oxygen level of the blood of an indigenous man in Brazil.

    Coronavirus live
    South America at centre of pandemic, says WHO – as it happened

    Madrid and Barcelona to ease lockdown as Spain’s death toll stays under 100 again; 660,000 people forced to flee homes during crisis despite UN global ceasefire call
  • Westfleisch workers

    Animals farmed
    ‘Exploitative conditions’: Germany to reform meat industry after spate of Covid-19 cases

    Ban on use of subcontractors and fines of €30,000 for slaughterhouses breaching new labour regulations a ‘historic moment’, say campaigners
  • Matthias Kürten

    Animals farmed
    Slaughter on site and no supermarkets: how Germany's mobile butcher is keeping meat local

    With ever larger meat plants in the spotlight over coronavirus clusters, one butcher has profited by going in the opposite direction

September 2018

  • FRANCE-SYRIA-CONFLICT-DEMO<br>Activists hold portraits of those detained or missing in front of a ‘Freedom Bus’ after it was driven onto the Place de la Republique in Paris on January 27, 2018, during a demonstration organized by “Families for Freedom” to demand freedom for those detained in Syria. / AFP PHOTO / Zakaria ABDELKAFI (Photo credit should read ZAKARIA ABDELKAFI/AFP/Getty Images)

    'These cities value freedom and democracy’: the Syrian families searching Europe for justice

    In a red London bus covered with images of ‘disappeared’ and detained Syrians, Families for Freedom has reached Berlin – a city whose traumatic past has parallels with Syria’s present

June 2018

  • Airport of Tegel, Berlin, Germany, Flughafen Tegel.

    Club culture
    Could Berlin's Tegel airport be reborn as a nightclub?

    Tegel airport is being eyed up as a new venue – but plans are meeting with ambivalence as clubbers see their subculture becoming more mainstream

January 2018

  • The EQT Support/93 Berlin shoe

    Cities in motion
    'Public transport is cool': new Adidas trainers double as Berlin transit passes

    Hundreds queued for today’s release – and with the €180 shoes doubling as €700+ transport tickets, it wasn’t just the usual sneakerheads

July 2016

  • Aid workers and helicopter

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    The future delivery of emergency aid

    The World Humanitarian Summit, held in Istanbul in May, was an opportunity to tackle the challenges facing the international community – but does its Grand Bargain deliver?

June 2016

  • A child in a refugee camp near Bangui in 2013

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    Disability in conflict zones: 'I told my wife to take the children and run'

  • Sierra Leonian's Survive In One Of The Worlds Poorest Countries<br>FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE - NOVEMBER 26: A member of the Freetown Single Limb Amputee football team practises on Lumley Beach on November 26, 2006 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Nearly all the players were victims of Sierra Leone's brutal civil war that ended in 2002. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

    Disability rights
    Live Q&A: How can we build momentum on global disability rights?

May 2016

  • Smoke billows in the background as Iraqi pro-government forces advance towards the city of Fallujah on May 23, 2016, as part of a major assault to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group. Iraqi forces, consisting of special forces, soldiers, police, militia forces and pro-government tribesmen, launched a major assault to retake Fallujah, the scene of deadly battles during the US occupation and one of the toughest targets yet in Baghdad's war on the Islamic State group. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, announced the start of operations in the middle of the night and then visited the battle's operations room. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYEAHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images

    Field posts
    Fallujah siege: 'Families are surviving on dried dates and river water'

    After two years of occupation by armed military groups, Iraqi forces have launched a major push to retake the city of Fallujah. Becky Bakr Abdulla from the Norwegian Refugee Council tells of the families caught up in the conflict
  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    Live Q&A: What impact will the Istanbul summit have on humanitarian response?

    Join an expert panel on Thursday 19 May, 1-3pm to discuss the opportunities for change at the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit
  • Ayelet Shaked<br>FILE - In this Sunday, May 17, 2015 file photo, Israel's newly-appointed Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, 39, attends a ceremony welcoming her at the Justice Ministry, in Jerusalem. Israeli Cabinet ministers have given preliminary approval to a bill that would impose restrictions on nonprofit groups that receive foreign funding, drawing accusations that it is meant to crack down on government critics. The bill, proposed by Shaked, would affect organizations that receive more than half their funding from a foreign government (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

    Israel: 'Some NGOs are seen as the enemy from the inside'

    With a transparency bill proposed in the Knesset that some argue targets human rights organisations, NGOs speak out about challenges to their work
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