カテゴリー: Global development
Despite new laws to combat the problem, a rape is reported every 15 minutes, leaving victims and families crying out for justiceIt was a historic day for women in India. Mamata Banerjee and her party won a spectacular election victory in West Bengal, d…
Three-year-old and her family held in immigration facility for years as government fights to deport themThe plight of a three-year old girl who has spent nearly her entire life in Australian immigration detention facilities has galvanised opposition to…
Luis Abreu once thrived on servicing India’s many typewriters but computers are eclipsing his tradeIn Goa’s capital, Panaji, on Rua São Tomé, not far from the main post office, is a shop that offers packaging services. For a small fee, they will wrap y…
Journalism has been outlawed in all but name since the coup, with reporters and editors fleeing the country or leading double lives to surviveAs a cyclone rolled over the Bay of Bengal on 24 May, American journalist Danny Fenster, 37, contemplated the …
Aid agencies write to Foreign Office minister as pressure grows on Boris Johnson ahead of Commons voteUK aid cuts of 42% will leave about 70,000 people without health services and 100,000 without water in Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee settle…
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‘Authoritarian’ rules upset sleepy Lakshadweep’s Muslim majority while Covid cases soar from zero to 10% of populationAccording to local people, the problems for Lakshadweep, an archipelago of paradise islands in southern India, began the day the new g…
Using individual children to ‘sell’ schemes to rich donors is similar to ‘poverty porn’ images of past, say experts, as calls grow to decolonise aidInternational child sponsorship schemes have come under attack for perpetuating racist thinking, as an a…
Activists were shot and beaten at demonstration to stop property giant Bahria Town building on indigenous land they say was taken with forceMuhammad Anwar was not aware of any danger when he took the day off work to join his friends at a demonstration …
Supermarket says it will investigate report on forced labour in Tamil Nadu garment chain and ensure improvements are madeTesco said it has found labour abuses in its garment supply chain in southern India after receiving evidence of widespread forced l…
Study finds children in Ghana, Nepal and Uganda in dangerous, exploitative work, with long hours and little payGopal Magar’s father has had a drinking problem for as long as he can remember, but when Kathmandu went into lockdown last spring, it got wor…
Data reveals Nepal, Iran and South Africa among 19 countries most at risk of running out as surging Covid cases push supplies to limitCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDozens of countries are facing severe oxygen shortages bec…
The country has no testing capacity for the B.1.617.2 strain and medics are concerned about resilience of health systemCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDoctors in Afghanistan have expressed fears that the Covid-19 variant fir…
Children’s charity faces claims it failed vulnerable children and misled donors after shutting down activities in the countryOne of the world’s largest children’s rights charities has admitted it “made a number of mistakes” when it left Sri Lanka abrup…
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