global development
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A life or death lottery bereft of midwives and medicineInaccessible clinics, untrained and overstretched midwives and lack of medicine are among the challenges facing mothers and newborn babies in Guinea
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Keeping faeces, flies and food separate to save livesSeven out of 10 people in rural Angola do not have a safe toilet to use. A Unicef programme is educating communities in hygiene, sanitation and in building their own toilets -
'We have nothing but our reindeer': when conservation threatens ruinationOne of the world’s smallest ethnic groups is finding its cultural traditions on the wrong side of Mongolian law, putting its very existence in peril -
The tribes paying the brutal price of conservationAcross the world, governments are protecting habitats. But indigenous peoples are being evicted
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Looking good and making a fast buck? Why rich countries help the poorAn extract from David Hulme’s Should Rich Nations Help the Poor? examines the mix of altruism and self-interest rich states use to justify support for foreign aid
in depth
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Women walk alone to reclaim India's streets from fear and harassmentFor women in India, offensive and threatening behaviour in public places is all too common. The Blank Noise collective is encouraging them to fight back
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'We just want to live' – on the road with South Sudan's refugeesHundreds of unaccompanied minors are among the 80,000 people who have fled to Uganda since July, when civil hostilities resumed in South Sudan
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Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?Oklahoma is one of the most food insecure states in the US, where families struggle to buy enough healthy food. Locals are trying to ease poverty with community farming, but face difficulty in a city with a complex racial history
talking points
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Nigeria cannot overcome its gathering humanitarian crisis aloneWith food insecurity affecting 4.4 million people and creating a fertile breeding ground for Boko Haram, Nigeria needs help from the international community
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Rightwing critics have long railed against efforts to address world poverty. Now one of them is in chargeA death foretold: watch as Priti Patel trashes our proud record on aid
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The Guardian view on UN peacekeeping: admirable aims but a troubled recordEditorial: Failures and abuses by ‘blue helmets’ show the need for coordinated improvements
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Students Speak: is peace a prerequisite for development?Why are the least peaceful countries often among the poorest? What’s the link between peace and progress? We want your views
pictures, video & audio
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Generations of Romanian girls trafficked into Europe's sex industry – videoMaya is one of the many Romanian girls lured to work in brothels and massage parlours across Europe in the hope of escaping poverty at home
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Olympians find fetching water in rural Uganda far from child’s play – in picturesBritish Olympians Peter and Richard Chambers joined two young sisters in Uganda’s mountainous Kigezi region to gain an insight into the challenge the girls face simply to get water for their families each day
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Freeing girls trafficked to Italy for sex: 'You will not be a slave for ever' - videoThousands of women and girls are being trafficked to Italy from Nigeria, into a life of forced prostitution. These women have a champion in Princess Okokon, who was herself trafficked from Nigeria in 1999
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 focusGiving birth in Guinea: a life or death lottery bereft of midwives and medicineInaccessible clinics, untrained and overstretched midwives and lack of medicine are among the challenges facing mothers and newborn babies in Guinea
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusBK Gulf dragged its heels over Qatar labour abuses, claim migrant workersCompany co-owned by British firm Balfour Beatty accused of continuing erratic salary payments and withholding of passports for months after Guardian exposé
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networks
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals NetworkWhy did you become a humanitarian? Aid workers share their motivationsWhether out of a desire to help those in need or by accident, readers share their reasons for working as humanitarians – despite near death experiences
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa network#IfAfricaWasaSchool: the continent described in playground memesTwitter users have been gently mocking their countries using old-school nostalgia – here’s what we learned
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Zimbabwe's government is standing by as its wildlife is slaughteredRogue state officials and disjointed land reforms have created an increasingly dangerous environment for at-risk animals
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Caster Semenya is the one at a disadvantageThe irony of privileged athletes with their nutritionists, physios and sports psychologists pointing fingers at those who’ve overcome so much is laughable
India Girls learn app coding to navigate a way out of their Mumbai slum