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Executive orders that would hit funding of UN organisations and US refugee resettlement programme greeted with chorus of condemnation
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As affected groups worldwide take in news of Donald Trump’s renewal of a policy that has dire implications for family planning, Médecins Sans Frontières has aimed a broadside at the US president’s stance
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Funding for programmes from sanitation to nutrition will be subject to Trump’s far-reaching order, with huge implications for family planning providers
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With more than 90% of refugees in Lebanon short of food and facing cuts to aid, desperate families often rely on their children to boost income
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Campaigners warn Trump’s reinstatement of a policy cutting aid to organisations who offer abortion services will devastate family planning provision
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The implications of the US’s reinstatement of the global gag rule, plus how African women are joining forces to improve their lot
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Kutubdia, an island of fishing villages and salt farms, has halved in size in 20 years, with family homes swallowed by the ever-encroaching tides
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Kary Stewart looks at how feminists are championing women’s rights across the continent and beyond
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This US aid policy, rescinded by Obama, has been brought back by Trump. It could put millions of women’s lives at risk and lead to more unsafe abortions
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From the Brexit vote to Donald Trump’s victory in the US election, 2016 was a year of seismic shifts. How closely were you paying attention?
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Hundreds of thousands of people drown every year. Many deaths go unrecorded, however, and pressure to teach people to swim is not what it might be
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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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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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Women's rights and gender equality in focusWomen's rights and gender equality in focusTrump policy changes would leave lives of millions in balance, agencies warnExecutive orders that would hit funding of UN organisations and US refugee resettlement programme greeted with chorus of condemnation
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusBrazil ordered to pay $5m to workers formerly enslaved on cattle ranchInter-American Court of Human Rights rules Brazil failed to prevent modern slavery, over workers rescued in official raids between 1988 and 2000
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa networkIvory Coast officials refuse to explain why two gay men were jailedAcitivists say if indecency law was applied it would be first known instance of it being used to jail gay people
Integrity Idol puts public honesty number one