Global development
- 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…
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India’s scattered workforce: the chatbot keeping families in touch during emergencies
Covid exposed the lack of data on the country’s 140 million mobile migrant workers, but a new project in Odish…
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The girls of my Himalayan valley are not victims – education is the only bridge they need out of their isolation | Amreen Qadir
In my tribe, the Dard Shin, girls’ dreams are often over by 13. It is time we cleared a path towards them all …
- Access to water, Climate crisis, Delhi, Drought, Environment, Global development, India, Natural resources and development, South and Central Asia, Water, World news
Ancient stepwells brought back to life as India begins to run out of water
Centuries-old wells restored to provide drinking water as parts of the country head towards “day zero” when no…
- Asia Pacific, Cambodia, Cybercrime, Global development, Human trafficking, Internet, Myanmar, Organised crime, South and Central Asia, Technology, World news
Destitute survivors of south-east Asia’s cyberscam farms an ‘international crisis’
Not enough support for freed victims, say aid agencies, with growing numbers sleeping on the streets, unable t…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Children's health, Global development, Global health, Health, Infectious diseases, Malawi, Medical research, Pakistan, Polio, Robert F Kennedy Jr, Science, Social media, Society, South and Central Asia, US healthcare, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi
A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disea…
- Afghanistan, Global development, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell
Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pore over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoy…
- Bangladesh, Children, Global development, Global education, Human rights, Sex trafficking, Sex work, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Invisible’ children born in the brothels of Bangladesh finally get birth certificates
Destined to a perilous life with no right to an education or to vote, state recognition ‘gives them hope’, cam…
- Diabetes, Global development, Global health, Nepal, Society, South and Central Asia, Ultra-processed foods, World news
Traditional food could help reverse Nepal’s ‘diabetes epidemic’, studies suggest
With medication largely unaffordable in the country, experts hope community support and a change in diet could…
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Most Indians don’t read for pleasure – so why does the country have 100 literature festivals?
With their carnival atmosphere, music and Bollywood stars, books often take a back seat. But that doesn’t mean…
- AI (artificial intelligence), Computing, Global development, India, South and Central Asia, Technology, Workers' rights, World news
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech comp…
- Art and design, Child marriage, Global development, Human rights, India, Photography, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: ‘I met 14-year-old Arti a day before her wedding. Her suicide six years later hit home’
Despite being illegal, child marriage is still common in much of India. Saumya Khandelwal, a photojournalist, …
- Global development, Pakistan, Reproductive rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
I’m married, Pakistani – and I don’t want children. That doesn’t make me broken | Fizza Abbas
I live in a country where a woman’s value is often measured by motherhood, but for me and many others fulfilme…
- Afghanistan, Contraception and family planning, Family, Global development, Global health, Health, Health & wellbeing, Life and style, Pregnancy, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages
Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraceptionParwana* no lo…