global development
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One in four Zimbabweans suffers from mental illness, but untrained female health workers are setting a new benchmark for treatment
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Law banning discrimination against people with HIV criticised for failing to guarantee treatment and potentially flawed enforcement measures
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Unicef highlights sharp increase in number of children used to carry out attacks as insurgency casts fresh shadow over children in Nigeria
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in depth
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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. But one year on, few expected the scale or the pain of the disaster now unfolding
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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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Beatings and death threats are part of daily life for two activists who save people enslaved in the remote Russian republic of Dagestan
talking points
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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
pictures, video & audio
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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
games & quizzes
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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 focusFury over arrest of academic who called Uganda's president a pair of buttocksHuman rights groups denounce charge of cyber harassment against Stella Nyanzi for posting Facebook criticism of Yoweri Museveni and first lady Janet
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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 NetworkSix megatrends that could alter the course of sustainable developmentAs the world works to achieve the sustainable development goals, a recent UN report identifies six issues that challenge ambitious targets
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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
Developing nations' demands for better life must be met, says World Bank head