global development
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Study claims hardened stance on immigration leaves undocumented migrant workers at greater risk of modern slavery and human rights abuses
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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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New organisation in region with high rate of sex assault wants to move from culture of blaming victims to one of shaming perpetrators
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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
talking points
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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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Altruism aside, it makes sense to help fragile states as best we can. We suffer the effects when they fail
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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 focus'Tambourine Army' hits back against sexual violence in JamaicaNew organisation in region with high rate of sex assault wants to move from culture of blaming victims to one of shaming perpetrators
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focus'A gift to human traffickers': report warns of dangers of Trump immigration policyStudy claims hardened stance on immigration leaves undocumented migrant workers at greater risk of modern slavery and human rights abuses
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networks
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals NetworkHow women's health advocates can win in 2017US restrictions on family planning funding in developing countries puts mothers at risk, but could this crisis be an opportunity?
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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
Somalia 'Where is the help?': black tea and dark despair as famine edges closer