global development
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Niger delta oil spill clean-up could take a quarter of a centuryUN hopes $1bn operation will boost employment and drive development among Ogoniland communities devastated by contamination from spills -
Let us play: skipping, toys and sand, amid war and diseaseOn International Children’s Day we celebrate the resilience of children and their ability to keep on playing and having fun despite the difficulties they face
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Economic growth failing to deliver prosperity for many Africans, study saysLegatum Institute index says Nigeria – Africa’s biggest economy – is only the 26th most prosperous African country, as fuel shortages hamper growth -
Syrian refugees find a welcome and some familiar fragilityDespite its poverty and security problems, Mali has provided a haven for some fleeing Syria’s civil war -
46 million people living as slaves, latest global index revealsWalk Free Foundation, backed by Russell Crowe, names India as having highest number of slaves in the world
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I think policing is a beautiful professionWith just weeks until the Olympics, children who live in Rio’s favelas share their thoughts on whether hosting the Games will make a difference to them
news
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Syria crisis: first aid convoy enters besieged Darayya since 2012Delivery including medical supplies but no food made to rebel-held town after Russia announces 48-hour truce
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Thousands of children at risk in Falluja, says UNUnicef urges warring forces in besieged Iraqi city to protect the children as battle to oust Isis continues
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Hospitals are now normal targets of war, says Médecins Sans FrontièresHumanitarian specialist Michiel Hofman says permanent members of UN security council are complicit in killings by supporting countries in conflict
in depth
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How to feed 9.7bn people? Startups take on the global food problemIn the hunt for a sustainable solution to a rapidly rising population, agriculture has begun to adopt a venture capital mindset
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Graters and guitars: making a living in Malawi’s refugee prisonWhen refugees from Africa’s conflicted Great Lakes region seek peace in Malawi’s Dzaleka camp, they often find that they cannot leave
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El Niño is over – but it leaves nearly 100 million people short of foodScientists say sea temperatures are back to normal, but from southern Africa to southern Asia, droughts and heatwaves have left a trail of devastation
talking points
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The UN's 'famous five' security council must changeWe asked, you answered. Students say they would change the security council and sort out tax havens if they landed the UN top job
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Telling women to avoid pregnancy is not a solution for HIV and the Zika virusTo the development community on International Day of Action for Women’s Health: don’t curtail our rights by legitimising conservative religious ideologies
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The Last Face isn't the first aid drama to leave us needing emergency assistanceHollywood and humanitarianism have long been strange bedfellows. After the caustic reaction to Sean Penn’s The Last Face at Cannes last week, we run the rule over a selection of other movies that made a drama out of a crisis
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The IMF has not lived up to its own hype on social protectionThe International Monetary Fund claims to support health, education and welfare programmes. Yet our research shows enforcing fiscal austerity remains its real concern
pictures, video & audio
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'When I have my period I'm not allowed to … ': girls in Nepal share their photo diaries – in picturesTo mark menstrual hygiene day, WaterAid gave cameras to girls in south-east Nepal to document the restrictions imposed on them during their period. Here are some of the images they took
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Schools reduced to rubble and ruins by conflict – in picturesFrom Yemen to Syria, South Sudan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, children are missing out on education as schools are destroyed by war
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Why are so many children around the world out of school? – podcastAs the world humanitarian summit approaches, Lucy Lamble looks at why 75 million children can’t access adequate education
games & quizzes
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Humanitarian aid quiz: are you good in a crisis?Reckon you could teach world humanitarian summit delegates a thing or two about aid? Take our quiz and find out if you’re a wizard on human welfare
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World Water Day quiz – are you a fount of wisdom?Access to water is a basic human right, but roughly one in 10 people globally are without a safe source. To mark World Water Day, try our quiz
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The world's most powerful people – quizAre you a superpower on sovereignty? Take our quiz to find out if you’re presidential material when it comes to people in power
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Where is your boss more likely to be a woman? Take our global inequality quizAre you top of the rich list when it comes to knowing about inequality or is your knowledge bank a little bit empty?
on this site
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Women's rights and gender equality in focusWomen's rights and gender equality in focusBahrain releases activist Zainab al-KhawajaRights campaigner who was jailed in March, taking her infant son with her, has sentence suspended after child welfare concerns
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focus46 million people living as slaves, latest global index revealsWalk Free Foundation, backed by Russell Crowe, names India as having highest number of slaves in the world
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networks
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals NetworkThe 'Avon ladies' of Pakistan selling contraception door to doorA scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa networkThe Soweto uprising: share your experiences, pictures and perspectivesForty years ago apartheid police killed hundreds of children protesting in the Johannesburg township. Were you there? We want your help telling this story
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No fanfare or free schooling for the wrong victims of Boko HaramNigerian women in refugee camps ask why they have not received same treatment as 219 schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok
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Zimbabwe pardons 2,000 prisoners to free up room in jailsOfficials says release of those convicted of low-level crimes should be seen as ‘a second chance to life’
UN response to Haiti cholera epidemic critics signals 'potential breakthrough'