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MPs call for more control and transparency over aid spending amid concerns over tension between ‘possible profit motives and programme objectives’
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EU reasserts that Bashar al-Assad has no future in Syria, on the eve of a major aid conference in Brussels aimed in part at boosting peace talks
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A compassionate refugee policy has led Uganda to welcome 800,000 people escaping conflict and famine in South Sudan. But the strain is starting to show
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Beatings and death threats are part of daily life for two activists who save people enslaved in the remote Russian republic of Dagestan
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Campaigners brand maternity bill elitist over failure to include women working in India’s informal sector, who represent 95% of female workforce
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UN chief Antonio Guterres has called for the protection of civilians to be the ‘absolute priority’ after arriving in Iraq to assess the humanitarian crisis
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Yale Environment 360: The death of activist Sikhosiphi Rhadebe has not stopped local communities from opposing plans for a major titanium mine that threatens ecologically important lands and a way of life
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As hunger spreads in east Africa, famine threatens to take hold beyond South Sudan. Lucy Lamble explores the background and response to the crisis
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Disasters Emergency Committee calls for urgent funds for 16 million people facing hunger, and the US lines up with world’s worst abusers of women’s rights
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After losing his right hand when a discarded Boko Haram bomb went off, Jonathan, 14, learned to write with his left. Now he dreams of becoming a lawyer
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When they fled their homes at the start of the conflict, these Syrian families thought they would return within days. Six years on, still in Lebanon and Jordan – and with no chance of return – they show what they brought with them
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As hunger spreads in east Africa, famine threatens to take hold beyond South Sudan. Lucy Lamble explores the background and response to the crisis
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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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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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Women's rights and gender equality in focusWomen's rights and gender equality in focusNew rules for Indian mothers – so long as the government accepts they existCampaigners brand maternity bill elitist over failure to include women working in India’s informal sector, who represent 95% of female workforce
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusSlave saviours: the men risking their lives to free brick workers in DagestanBeatings and death threats are part of daily life for two activists who save people enslaved in the remote Russian republic of Dagestan
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals NetworkThe American expats moving into the Mexican 'Riviera' and breaking up indigenous communitiesAs property developers edge closer to the home town of 5,000 Cocas, the community has appealed to the government for help
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa networkIs Uganda the world's best place for refugees?Once refugees themselves, Ugandans look to ‘return the good’ to people fleeing war in South Sudan by offering land and help
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Government offers to compensate victims of 2012 police shooting at Marikana mine that left 34 workers dead
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A group of activists, lawyers and artists have launched a platform to help citizen watchdogs in often dangerous situations
El Salvador makes history as first nation to impose blanket ban on metal mining