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Thailand’s indigenous sea gypsies predicted the waves that swept their villages absent in 2004,and...
One state turned off the internet,another was accused of using starvation as a weapon of war, and...
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Making countries vulnerable to climate change a precedence; Africa’s initiative to cleave reliance...
Lucy Lamble reports from southern Africa on the recurring droughts,exacerbated by an unusually...
wealthy countries might be going through some tough times but that doesn't change the fact that...
In One Thousand Dreams,award-winning photographer Robin Hammond hands the camera to refugees. Often...
From the farmer’s daughter who set up the only safari resort in the world race solely by women,to...
Continuing our series of diary entries on life in Alemão ahead of the Games,Daiene Mendes reflects...
Unable to access foreign aid,Somaliland's government has had to negotiate with citizens and...
Three quarters of all murders of trans people recall place in South and Central America. In...
The global influence of a controversial Christian coalition poses a serious threat to the rights of...
Development cannot be sustainable without peace or justice. By 2025,80% of destitute people will...
If women are to be protected from violence and oppression,governments – particularly in the Middle...
On International Women’s Day,we select a examine at reproductive rights, contraception and gender...
nearly half of young women in Mozambique are married by the age of 18,limiting their academic...
Guardian report on allegations of exploitation in Irelands fishing fleet; Sierra Leone finally...
Fearful of being abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army,Gloria, Judith, and Miriam and Monica once...
Ugandan activist says Nobel nomination ‘already a win’; working with survivors of the Lord’s...
Daily life as the Olympics approach; the women facing prison in El Salvador for losing their babies;...
A push for growth could destabilise the delicate cultural ecosystem,but officials vow to support its...
In the Global development podcast this month,Liz Ford looks at the barriers to women reaching...
FGM has long been commonplace among Colombia’s Emberá people,yet secrecy and speculation has...
More than a quarter of a million people bear fled in terrorism as opposition militias plot their...
wait on inform our journalism on the Global development desk by telling us what you would like to...
UN population fund says in times of crisis,women and girls are left in precarious situation with...
As a young activist I will be lobbying the Paris summit to ensure my people,the Turkana – along...
Mosquirix passed tough regulatory hurdles but,with question marks over the effectiveness of the drug...
In his latest update from Sierra Leone,Isaac Bayoh, who now works with Mdicos del Mundo, and looks...
Sustainable development goals formally adopted at UN,a project documenting women and children’s...
Villagers,lured by new jobs and rich rewards for selling their land, now face poverty and heartbreak...
Sita Chhaudry spent her childhood as a domestic worker,starved and beaten. Now despite her lack of...
Actor,who grew up amid the Aids crisis in South Africa, says the virus has a racial stigma that...
Female gential mutilation has long been commonplace among Colombia’s Emberá people,yet secrecy...
At the height of the Ebola crisis,marathon runner Joy Kollie fell ill with malaria and typhoid. Now,...
In 2005,Innocent Smoke was one of 10 newborns from countries across Africa who were featured in the...
Jimmy Nelson’s glamorous portraits of African,Asian and Amazon groups dismissed as ‘wrong’ and...
Having fled persecution in Myanmar,a growing number of women are at risk of harassment and attack in...
We digest the latest aid figures from the OECD and Publish What You Fund. Plus,the plight of...
As the country grapples with a surge in microcephaly cases,a young woman has become the object of...
Eight years on,communities in the Ugandan sub-county supported by Guardian readers are reaping the...
Cheery Zahau is one of 800 women standing for election,hoping to overcome the cultural barriers and...
When Mary Wanjiku Mwangi fell pregnant as an 18-year-old,it was four months before she realised what...
Five activists from countries across Africa talk about the issues that affect their lives,from...
A enormous global commitment to reducing malaria has paid off and the goal of near zero deaths from...
Millions of tonnes of old electronic goods illegally exported to developing countries,as people dump...
Tahmina,13, recounts how she was sold by her elder sister to a man nearly 30 years her senior. She...
To eradicate slavery we need to understand what drives slaveholders,says American sociologist and...
Accessing family planning is not easy for many women,who face cultural or religious opposition,...
Lucy Lamble reports from Malawi and Zimbabwe where water shortages are worryingly normal. Plus,the...
Though banned,the centuries-outmoded custom of confining women to a cowshed during their period...
With a law change imminent,Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film approximately an attempted honour killing...
With war raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,Oscar and his family fled to a refugee camp...
When the Indonesian president Joko Widodo visits the White House later this month,human rights...
To notice the formal adoption of the sustainable development goals,campaigners are staging candlelit...
Throughout the US,gangs and pimps are branding women trafficked into prostitution with tattoos or...
As the world population hits 7 billion,John Vidal returns to the country of his birth to find the...
Two years after the end of the guerrilla war that killed 220000,other players have moved in on the...
When disaster struck his community in remote Chin state,Dr SaSa rushed to attend and found himself...
With almost a quarter of Ugandan households spending more than 10% of their income on medical...
For women in Papua New Guinea,violence at domestic is horribly normal. Local charities are trying to...
John Vidal on the smog poisoning our cities; experts gawk at humanitarian funding models; and the...
In India,where menstruation is taboo, the high court could send a powerful message to all faiths if...
Plans to clone cattle to meet China’s growing demand for beef threaten to win the country down a...
Earthquake puts children at risk of being trafficked; UN official troubled by World Bank approach to...
Join the debate on the 17 sustainable development goals – the roadmap for a fairer world by...
In 2005,the Guardian featured 10 newborns in countries across Africa. Five years later, we returned...
Only women are allowed to live in Umoja. Julie Bindel visits the Kenyan village that began as a...
El Salvador's strict abortion laws mean a woman can be charged with homicide for suffering a...
Toilet paper,rice and coffee have long been lost from stores, as Venezuelan president blames CIA...
As Pakistan’s supreme court backs bulldozing of homes blamed for floods,critics say government has...
For years,one of Myanmar’s most favorite bands worked in fear of an authoritarian military...
Locals who want to join abroad visitors in enjoying the country’s stunning mountains say its...
Unicef says young people feel their voices are unheard on global issues,as study finds prospects for...
Sita Chhaudry was sold as a slave at 10 years dilapidated. Starved,beaten and denied an education,...
With women in Pakistan suffering increasingly lurid (shocking; sensational) and unsafe forms of...
From the Olympic truce to table tennis tournaments for disabled people in Nepal,sport can bring...
Mentally ill people are being shackled in Indonesia according to Human Rights Watch. Plus we...
The UK government must prioritise back for survivors of Isis attacks in northern Iraq and Syria,who...
We hope Amnesty’s support for decriminalising the sex trade will move the discussion from moral...
As the two countries crack down on smuggling,those forced to cross the border ‘for survival’...
Decades of persecution has left the Shia minority with little space left in its graveyards but prime...
On the streets of Port-au-Prince,women in the sex trade discuss the devastation of the 2010 quake...
Former president urges optimism and focus on progress at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
Sultana Kamal,chair of Transparency International Bangladesh, angered hardline Islamists by...
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has called on others to ban female genital mutilation,yet her...
Kary Stewart meets women who experienced rape and violence during Colombia’s years of clash,who...
I am a pavement dweller from Chennai. nowadays,on International Day for Street Children, I want...
Smoke from cookstoves among range of environmental factors driving rise in costly non-communicable...
A loans fund paid for by donations from Guardian readers has rejuvenated a farmers’ co-operative...
Group of international lawyers calls for charges against former Chad president to be revised in...
An investigation follows the trail of shrimp prepared by captive workers in squalid factories into...
We can be the first generation to halt poverty,but only whether we seize ambitious international...
Neither research on the benefits of female involvement for peace-building nor a UN resolution...
World Bank estimates on global poverty provide us with the big numbers,yet they lack the detailed...
In 2005,the Guardian featured 10 newborns in countries across Africa. Five years later, we returned...
In 2005,the Guardian featured 10 newborns in countries across Africa. Five years later, we returned...
The US-sponsored plot to slay Patrice Lumumba,the hero of Congolese independence, took place 50...
Our investigation into the fruit industry has clearly pricked some nerves but questions remain as to...
When a student from India’s lowest caste proposed to purchase his marriage procession past the...
Still traumatised after fleeing violence in Myanmar,Nazima Begum is struggling to breastfeed her...
Aid adverts featuring ‘white saviours’ may bring in cash but they remove all dignity from those...
The ANC politician who spent 22 years in a cell after being jailed with Nelson Mandela is now...
Landmark go marks first time UN’s human rights group has intervened in an individual case,yet...
A Facebook post criticising Yoweri Museveni landed academic Stella Nyanzi in jail,but she vows to...
A successful drive to curtail the practice of wedding dowries in certain Muslim areas of India is...
They live in some of London’s most exclusive locations,cooking, cleaning and caring for the...
Women in parts of India are sent to basic huts outside their villages during their periods,as the...
The Guardian is good to draw attention to the tax dodging practices of multinational companies (UK...
UNAids says additional 2 million people began antiretrovirals in the last year,but campaigners say...
When Maasai tribesmen took up cricket in 2009,media attention soon followed. It gave the young men...
With Ebola in retreat,Sierra Leoneans yearn for a return to normality. But for the burial teams...
At the age of 13,Aida was acting as a mother to her young sister Tatevik, doing all the housework...
In 2005,Angel Siyavuya Swartbooi was one of 10 newborns from countries across Africa who were...
A young girl stands up to female genital mutilation,Sierra Leone hopes to see end of Ebola, and...
In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse,civilians – often first on the scene of disasters in poorer...
The world produces enough food to feed 10 billion people. Poverty and hunger prevail because of...
Things have certainly improved for women,but at the top of both industry and government the faces...
Activists welcome degree but urge need for health warnings,community empowerment schemes, and...
Criminalising begging violates the rights of vulnerable people,the court ruled. Campaigners hope the...
Along the narrow alleys of one of India’s largest bullion markets,men and women scrape a living...
Stigmatised by the public and badgered by the police,gay people in Nigeria have been driven ever...
The country’s first female-run radio station was looted and its staff persecuted but,despite the...
After a violent struggle,authorities and residents enjoy agreed a deal to urbanise the Rio de...
The Paris climate agreement has been signed amid much fanfare but,as the Panama Papers show, the...
A novel scheme offers free degree courses at the Asian University for Women to improve the prospects...
Abdirahman and Omar,two men I looked up to when I was growing up, died in an attack on a restaurant,...
Is Africa an undemocratic continent ruled by autocratic old men who pay lip service to the wishes of...
Colors Rainbow,an organisation dedicated to ending discrimination against LGBT people in Myanmar, is...
Profiling 2015’s most eye-catching ideas. Plus,how to measure people’s access to justice, and a...
The current,sweeter tablets are provided in a smaller child-friendly dosage, meaning parents do not...
To mark antibiotic awareness week,the WHO offers a remedy for antimicrobial resistance that includes...
Less than a third of Peruvians have bank accounts,but hopes are high that a novel digital payment...
Nick Danziger talks approximately his journey across four continents,discovering the reality of the...
In 2005,the Guardian featured 10 newborn babies in countries across Africa. Five years later, we...
The debate on how aid should be shared has intensified over the lifespan of the millennium...
Study warns that rising temperatures pose serious threat to global coffee market,potentially...
wealthy in calcium,iron and protein, gluten-free teff offers Ethiopia the promise of original and...
Ahtisham Khan arrived in Greece,aged 16, after leaving Pakistan. A unique initiative is helping...
With the monsoon season nearing in Bangladesh,refugees living in makeshift shelters after fleeing...
Zainab Fayez,the sole woman in Kandahar’s attorney-general’s office, wants greater equality in...
Zainab Fayez,the sole woman in Kandahar’s attorney-general’s office, wants others to join her in...
About 3000 people work gruelling 10-hour shifts at Ralalitra,one of Africa’s largest nonsense...
Supreme court approves termination for 13-year-worn who fell pregnant after assault but case...
With the rainy season approaching in Kerala state,a radio station is providing a low-tech forecast...
As rumour and surmise swirled during Sierra Leone’s Ebola outbreak,the clear, timely and often...
Internal documents obtained by Guardian show officials raised issue of trafficked workers from...
The young people left in charge of children in Sierra Leone are struggling to provide food for their...
At the age of 13,Aida was acting as a mother to her young sister Tatevik, doing all the housework...
UK pledge on aid certainly deserves compliment,but does not excuse governments record on tax...
Channa,12, supports her sick mother and younger brother by weighing people on a precious set of...
Traditional practitioners of female genital mutilation acquire established deep roots in Sierra...
Marital rape has belatedly registered on India’s political radar,but efforts to outlaw it own been...
Drought-prone areas will become drier and wet tropical regions wetter,says Intergovernmental Panel...
For 15 years,a dedicated group of doctors has been running a health project in central India called...
Charity warns of 22000 additional deaths in poorest countries whether Wish reproductive health...
Construction of a fence along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border,one of the world’s most hazardous...
In a country with one of the world’s most skewed sex ratios,campaigners are appealing to male...
Award-winning social activist,TEDx speaker and filmmaker Insia Dariwala talks approximately her...
With nearly a million Rohingya driven out of Myanmar in what the UN has called textbook ‘ethnic...
A corps of master beekeepers is leading a drive to produce honey for the growing domestic...
Like many men from Nepal’s Accham district,Sarpa migrated to India for work only to return with...
Malnutrition prevents nearly a fifth of children in Ghana from growing properly. The problem is...
The next Angkor Wat? Securing world heritage status for historic Mrauk U could bring much-needed...
As India debates the validity of a law allowing men to divorce by uttering three words,one woman is...
With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise,international catastrophe...
Edward Loure wins leading environmental award after helping communities in Tanzanian Rift Valley...
In diary entries on life in Rocinha ahead of the Games,Michel Silva talks approximately his...
Two years ago,Samah al-Gadi won Mashrouy, a Sudanese TV note that invites young entrepreneurs to...
Dowries,though illegal, are still widespread in India. Two public information films ridiculing the...
All-clear likely for Liberia nowadays after no new cases as report calls for urgent cash injection...
Attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria and Isis in Syria and Iraq drive increase in deaths,with civilians...
Success of campaign that has nearly rid 26 African countries of the disease could be at risk if...
Getting sub-Saharan Africa online via satellite is a much project,but genuine empowerment will only...
With lack of contraception claiming the lives of thousands of women and children annually,devout...
In Dar es Salaam,many people without formal addresses are denied access to services and a legal...
In 2005,the Guardian featured 10 newborns in countries across Africa. Five years later, we returned...
Lack of sex education and the unenlightened stance of the Catholic church have left young girls in...
But report warns population growth could outpace family planning programmes in some countries...
Achieving the non-controversial medical goals of sexual health requires dealing with the...
Sex trafficking entraps thousands of Mexican women every year. A jailed pimp,who claims to be...
Joshua Silver,shortlisted for an EU award, hopes to supply children in the developing world with 200...
The world needs 350000 more midwives,says Save the Children, which is calling for more training and...
Activists were shot and beaten at demonstration to stay property giant Bahria Town building on...
Agencies offer guarantee that women desperate to support families devastated by clash will not drop...
Across West Bengal,a bank hasten by and for sex workers ensures they withhold their earnings secure...
Rights groups urge UK government and international community to consider Nobel laureate ‘allotment...
Activists and some African countries panic broad corporations and the OECD club of rich nations are...
National Democratic Institute’s #NotTheCost campaign calls for indicators on prevalence of threats...
Development is not just about economics. It’s about culture and the strength of national,tribal...
Zika was first identified in this spot near Entebbe. Now scientists must find out how a relatively...
Militant attacks have damage Tunisias tourist industry,but Kenya is attempting to woo foreign...
Seven,a travelling documentary play recounting the genuine-life ordeals of women who maintain...
In a region of Sudan where herders and farmers often clash over land,the simple technique of...
secure Delivery app provides directions to health workers in remote areas on how to deal with...
International Day to close Violence Against Sex Workers offers politicians a chance to ponder the...
Access is by appointment only,but a museum rush by a charity championing the rights of women...
Africa climate commerce plan,emphasising clean energy, efficient farming and urban protection, or...
The sole Afghan woman who took section in the Bamiyan race hopes others follow in her footsteps...
The British doctor who led UK efforts to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone has urged foreign donors to...