カテゴリー: Global development
Whereabouts of children taken by the military since the 2021 coup are mostly unknown, according to Naw Susanna Hla Hla SoeHundreds of children have been detained by the Myanmar military since it seized power more than one year ago, with many held ranso…
China is pouring trillions into the developing world. It is, the artist and activist says, an audacious power grabThe landscapes in Davide Monteleone’s images of China’s belt and road initiative are very familiar to me. We can see desert, uninhabited w…
Agencies forced to cut back aid in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Ethiopia despite growing need as funds go to UkraineRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has put huge pressure on an already shrinking pot of international aid.Aid agencies working in count…
Economist calls for compressed working hours with 10-hour days in response to higher fuel pricesUkraine-Russia war – latest updatesThe Philippines is considering a four-day working week to conserve energy, as the cost of fuel continues to rise globally…
Campaigners say not enough is being done to prevent loss of life and the causes of death are not being properly investigatedAs many as 10,000 migrant workers from south and south-east Asia die every year in the Gulf countries, according to a report by …
Khaula Jamil explores the difficulties faced by Bengali-speakers in Pakistan, and how they are filtering down the generationsThere are two kinds of Bengalis in Pakistan. The first are those who were living in West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and ch…
As female students are denied schooling and career prospects, medical staff warn of a rise in mental health problemsThere was an English exam under way when news began to circulate that the Taliban had reached Kabul. Panic spread and Yamna was among th…
Minister says women’s march violates Islamic values, prompting counter-events organised by religious groupsMore than 1,000 veiled women attended marches to promote Islamic values in cities across Pakistan on International Women’s Day in an attempt to c…
Frustrated by a lack of female representation, film-maker Akanksha Sood Singh set up an Instagram account to showcase ‘the untold stories of women working for science and nature’“I wish these things wouldn’t happen to anyone,” says Akanksha Sood Singh,…
Now a refugee in the UK, Joya and the Rukhshana Media agency defied threats to report on life for women under the TalibanThe Afghan journalist Zahra Joya has been named as one of Time’s women of the year 2022 for her reporting of women’s lives in Afgha…
Zahir Jaffer tortured and beheaded Noor Mukadam, in July last year, in case that sparked outrage over violence against womenA court in Islamabad has sentenced to death the tycoon’s son who raped and murdered Noor Mukadam, a case that sparked outrage in…
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and beyond are using poetry to come to terms with atrocities – and as a form of resistanceIt has now been a year since the military coup, and the breeze of democracy has become a dead wind in Myanmar. People breathe the …
Ahead of key Uttar Pradesh elections, state police accused of being ‘mercenaries’ of hardline Hindu nationalist government According to police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, it was suicide. The young Muslim man they had brought into their custod…
Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu – AKA Asia One – has her fair…