global development
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In Togo and Benin, photographer Ana Palacios met children who have been rescued from slavery, and discovered how they are being helped to rebuild their lives
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New law in India comes into force this week which will recognise survivors as being physically disabled. They will now be entitled to compensation and help to get jobs
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When the rains failed in Somalia, a war zone with few roads or hospitals, the consequences for people who live off the land were inevitable
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A Taliban health chief says the resumption of a polio vaccination scheme in north Afghanistan does not alter lingering suspicion of the international community
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Failed application means Athanase Monja can't attend Rio Tinto AGM, where he hoped to highlight impact of mining on his community
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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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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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Jonathan Gambo shares his story of recovery after being injured by discarded munitions in Nigeria, and we follow the activists rescuing enslaved brick workers
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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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The UN is assembling a team to investigate human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims, putting the organisation at loggerheads with Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Meanwhile, some of the world’s most persecuted people remain unable to access medical treatment and education
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More than 250 people are dead and hundreds more missing after heavy rainfall triggered lethal mudslides and flooding in Colombia’s Putumayo province. As the survivors mourn, there have been accusations that the government should have been better prepared for the disaster
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Thousands of Russia’s most vulnerable men and women are enslaved in brick factories and farms in the remote republic of Dagestan. Two young activists, Alexey and Zakir, risk their lives to rescue them
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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 focusTrump administration halts money to UN population fund over abortion rulesInternational family planning agency, which will lose all future US funding, rejects state department claims it supports ‘coercive abortion’ in China
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusWest African children rescued from slavery – in picturesIn Togo and Benin, photographer Ana Palacios met children who have been rescued from slavery, and discovered how they are being helped to rebuild their lives
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networks
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals NetworkView from Damascus: rebuilding in the midst of warBritish Red Cross press officer Penny Sims has been in Syria for the last four months and shares what she saw
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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
Aid 'Worrying trend' as funds stay in wealthiest countries