global development
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A Maharashtra village is giving women denied childhood education a chance to finally catch up on schooling, in a country where female illiteracy is high
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Nations pledge millions to mitigate Trump’s block on funding to family planning services worldwide, and outline US budget indicates big fall in aid spending
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A Save the Children study says Syria’s mental health crisis has reached a tipping point, and that severe distress among children could cause life-long damage
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As a promising female athlete from a conservative, male-dominated area of Pakistan, Maria Toorpakai was forced to pose as a boy to learn her craft
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Action urged as report highlights countries where sexual predators can walk free if they marry their victims, or if girls are ‘deemed too young to consent’
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Attracted by modest fares and an alternative to slow and often hazardous road routes, passengers are making the most of a new rail link to the country’s capital
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The new government plans to relocate residents to larger atolls – leaving small islands ripe for development. It says these super resorts, not solar power, will create the money needed to adapt to climate change
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Detaining juveniles in overcrowded conditions, where there is little scope for learning or rehabilitation, may be contributing to violence in Brazilian society
talking points
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Altruism aside, it makes sense to help fragile states as best we can. We suffer the effects when they fail
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The aid operations hoping to save lives in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen, and remembering the master statistician and development champion
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In India, 6,000 tonnes of plastic waste lies uncollected every day. Some of this washes up in Tamil Nadu state where it pollutes and contaminates the food and water of communities living along the Bay of Bengal
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Last year, photographer Matt Black documented the logistics chain of international food aid from a warehouse hub in Dubai to Unity State in South Sudan, where famine has just been declared
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Kary Stewart looks at why 850,000 children work in Bolivia, and whether the numbers can be vindicated by the country’s unique cultural context
games & quizzes
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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 focusLeaders launch fund to counter Trump's 'gag rule', and huge cuts to US aid likelyNations pledge millions to mitigate Trump’s block on funding to family planning services worldwide, and outline US budget indicates big fall in aid spending
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusWomen's leader from India's ruling BJP charged with child traffickingJuhi Chowdhury, state secretary of Bharatiya Janata party, arrested for alleged involvement in a cartel that police say sold Indian babies to people overseas
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networks
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa network'Fake news' fuelled civil war in Burundi. Now it's being used againExiled journalists tell of how decades of balanced post-conflict reporting is being dismantled by President Nkurunziza
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Strongmen are back in vogue, but these six people are determined to defy the despots
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Mass walkout over reneged 2013 deal on boosting pay and staffing has left patients untreated and medical union leaders in jail
Famine warning signs were clear – so why are 20 million lives now at risk?