Global development
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I ran aid programmes for 25 years – getting my car fixed at an Islamabad market taught me why they don’t work | Mohammad Altaf Afridi
Donors mean well, but in Pakistan I saw funds poured into professional, unaccountable NGOs rather than authent…
- Fashion, Global development, India, Social media, South and Central Asia, Sustainable fashion, World news, Young people, Youth unemployment
‘A passion, but also a gamble’: why India’s gen Z are cashing in on the trend for secondhand fashion
Faced with rising costs and a lack of jobs, many young Indians are turning an online side hustle into an incom…
- Global development, India, LGBTQ+ rights, Sex work, Sexuality, Society, South and Central Asia, Transgender, World news
‘It’s like a trans-Barbie world!’: the Indian festival where transgender women can celebrate without fear
The annual gathering at Koovagam is rooted in an ancient poem. Five trans attendees talk about what the event …
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Can promises on gender equality made in Australia help a 16-year-old cigarette maker with no toilet in India?
In this week’s newsletter: can the Melbourne declaration help women affected by injustice?; plus the artist ch…
- Feminism, Global development, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, Workers' rights, World news
Can promises on gender equality made in Australia help a 16-year-old Indian cigarette maker with no toilet?
The Melbourne declaration aims to direct funding and power to those most overlooked and affected by injustice.…
- Bangladesh, Global development, Global health, Maternal health, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Mothers won’t die, babies can survive’: new maternal hospital opens in world’s largest refugee camp
As aid cuts strip back food and supplies, the facility offers a rare hope for Rohingya women who previously fa…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Bangladesh, Dubai, Food security, Global development, Global health, Humanitarian response, India, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Somalia, South and Central Asia, Strait of Hormuz, Sudan, US-Israel war on Iran, World news, Yemen
Calls for humanitarian corridor through strait of Hormuz as Iran war hits vital aid
Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of peop…
- Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Global development, South and Central Asia, World news
Heatwaves, floods and wildfires pose rising threat to democracy, report finds
Research shows natural hazards linked to climate crisis disrupted 23 elections in 18 countries in 2024Democrac…
- Conflict and arms, Global development, Human rights, Menstruation, Myanmar, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aid
Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rightsM…
- Delhi, Food security, Fuel poverty, Gas, Global development, India, Middle East and North Africa, Migration, South and Central Asia, US-Israel war on Iran, World news
‘I’ve not had proper food for days’: migrant workers leave India’s cities as Iran war fuel crisis deepens
Gas shortages and rising food prices mean many who came to the capital for work cannot afford to eat. Going ho…
- Aid, Bangladesh, Food security, Global development, Global education, Global health, Human rights, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
In the Rohingya refugee camps, we really want you to keep the gas running | Ajas Khan
Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or kee…
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My year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on | Mahrang Baloch
No home in Balochistan is safe and enforced disappearances are widespread. Detaining me and other rights activ…
- Business, Employment, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
‘The whole country is doing it’: how illegal kidney traders target Pakistan’s desperate brick kiln workers
Enslaved by debt, victims often feel compelled to sell an organ to repay loans – but can find themselves even …
- British empire, Colonialism, Global development, India, Photography, South and Central Asia, World news
Manure dryers and devil dancers: the British empire’s attempt to use photography to control India
In a new exhibition, the featured images reflect Britain’s attempts to classify and curb the subcontinent’s po…
- Conflict and arms, Global development, Global health, Health, Myanmar, Nursing, Royal College of Nursing, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
The Myanmar nurses dodging drones to graduate from a secret jungle school
This week, the first students completed a three-year degree course, ready to treat displaced people and pro-de…