カテゴリー: Global development
With medication largely unaffordable in the country, experts hope community support and a change in diet could reduce soaring type 2 diabetes ratesA return to the traditional lentil and rice dishes that have nourished generations of Nepalis could save …
With their carnival atmosphere, music and Bollywood stars, books often take a back seat. But that doesn’t mean writers and their works won’t make a lasting impressionSounding amused, publisher Pramod Kapoor recalls the reaction of the Indian cricketing…
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companiesOn the veranda of her family’s home, with her laptop balanced on a mud slab built into the wall, Monsumi Murmu works from one of the few …
Despite being illegal, child marriage is still common in much of India. Saumya Khandelwal, a photojournalist, followed one girl’s tragic storyIn 2013, I came across a pamphlet from an organisation working on child marriage in the north-eastern India-Ne…
I live in a country where a woman’s value is often measured by motherhood, but for me and many others fulfilment simply looks differentI booked an online appointment with a gynaecologist in Karachi during the pandemic. I had a severe urinary tract infe…
Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraceptionParwana* no longer recognises her own children. Once known for her beauty in her village in Kandahar province, the 36-year-old sits on the floor of her moth…
With 64% of the city’s residents relying on buses and trains so overloaded that up to 10 passengers die a day, anger is rising over a taxpayer-funded road most will never useMumbai is known for its graphic inequality, its gleaming high-rises where the …
After a 21-year-old employee was raped and killed by her supervisor in 2021, campaigners ensured conditions at the factory were overhauled. But its order book never recoveredAsk the women working at Natchi Apparels in the historic city of Dindigul in T…
A few of our favourite photographs taken by women from the global south and capturing moments of everyday life and art Continue reading…
Thousands have blown down in storms and tents from China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia found to be not waterproofThousands of tents supplied by China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to shelter displaced Palestinians in Gaza offer only limited protection against rain…
Health worker Naushaba Roonjho was ostracised by her family in Pakistan for wanting to work but now she is campaigning for political officeWhen Naushaba Roonjho became the first girl anyone in her district knew to have passed Pakistan’s national second…
From the construction worker who won a place at medical school to an art exhibition in a country with no galleries, we asked journalists for their most optimistic tales of the yearFounder of the Migration Story, India Continue reading…
We spoke to protesters in Togo, Kenya, Nepal, Madagascar and Morocco about how their actions helped shape the world in 2025Mass protests in Nepal and Madagascar toppled both governments this year, even when the young people at the forefront of the demo…
As crowds attack newspaper offices and violence has killed 184 people, the optimism around Sheikh Hasina’s overthrow has dimmedThe sounds of a mob were already audible when Zyma Islam hit send on her article for Friday’s edition of Bangladesh’s Daily S…