global development
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An app targeted specifically at India’s 26.8 million disabled people promises to create newfound opportunities for striking up relationships
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Business in the Sululta district of Ethiopia’s Oromia region is burgeoning. So why, despite abundant rainfall, does half the population have no fresh water?
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Aid agencies condemn mooted hundredfold increase in cost of permits despite earlier promise to allow ‘unimpeded access’ to 100,000 starving people
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Cork judge dismisses case against Leonard Hyde and Pat O’Mahony, who were accused of facilitating illegal immigration and employment of a Filipino worker
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Complaint lodged with US federal court claims World Bank’s private sector lending arm is ‘knowingly profiting from the financing of murder’
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Home-based workers in Sindh province, who prop up the country’s informal economy, hope their historic victory will mean an end to exploitation
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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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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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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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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
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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 focusDating app helps Indian people with disabilities find their perfect partnerAn app targeted specifically at India’s 26.8 million disabled people promises to create newfound opportunities for striking up relationships
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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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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals NetworkMexican government accused of torture by ex-patients of disabled care homeIn a landmark legal case against the government, an NGO is fighting for disabled people’s right to live in their communities, rather than institutions
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa network'You were supposed to die tonight': US anti-terror strategy linked to torture in AfricaSecurity forces funded by US are accused of human rights abuses including summary executions and disappearances
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Exiled 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
Famine warning signs were clear – so why are 20 million lives now at risk?