Aid
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Foreign secretary criticised for diverting new £700m ‘empowerment fund’ away from countries in Africa and Middle East
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Is development work futile in the West Bank? Should aid workers instead focus entirely on lobbying politicians at home to pressure Israel to end the occupation?
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Unpublished research from the UN Population Fund suggests the country’s maternal mortality figures may be higher than reported
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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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