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- Employment, Environment, Ethical and green living, Fashion, Garment workers, Global development, Global health, India, Life and style, Recycling, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick
Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonne…
- Afghanistan, Employment, Forced marriage, Global development, Global education, Human rights, Law, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage
Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her emp…
- Employment, Environment, Food security, Global development, India, Indigenous peoples, Society, South and Central Asia, Trees and forests, World news
Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity
Restoring age-old land rights has enabled 300 villagers to build a profitable business and halt the exodus to …
- Bangladesh, Employment, Football, Global development, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Saudi Arabia, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World Cup, World news
‘Many migrant workers will die’: the likely human cost of awarding the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia
Millions of migrants will build stadiums, transport networks and hotels. But testimonies from Bangladeshis who…
- Climate crisis, Employment, Environment, Extreme heat, Global development, Global health, India, Social protection, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
‘I feel dizzy but I can’t stop’: global heating is already making kiln workers’ lives unbearable. And it will only get worse
Researchers mapped brick kilns across India and used climate models to forecast the levels of heat stress work…
- Afghanistan, Employment, Food security, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Law, Prisons, Sexual violence, Social protection, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails
Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work banDestitute A…
- Bollywood, Culture, Employment, Film, Garment workers, Gender, Global development, India, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything | Shrayana Bhattacharya
In India being a female fan of Shah Rukh Khan is not just about a love of film – it’s a form of resistance aga…
- Child labour, Dalits, Employment, Global development, Global health, India, Law, Malnutrition, Migration and development, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns
Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access heal…
- Business, Employment, Environment, Ethical and green living, Global development, India, Plastics, Recycling, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India
The high street retailer may be shutting shops in the UK but its legacy lives on for a plastics company which …
- Afghanistan, Employment, Global development, Human rights, Media, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women in journalism, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women
Her family have been threatened and her team faces increasing risks in Afghanistan, but Zahra Joya knows she m…
- Bangladesh, Employment, Global development, Global health, Health, Poverty, South and Central Asia, Uganda, World news
Having the right glasses could boost earning power by a third, Bangladesh study shows
Researchers find that in low and middle-income countries owning spectacles can help people over 35 increase th…
- Bangladesh, Business, Employment, Fashion, Fashion industry, Garment workers, Global development, Human rights, Retail industry, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats
Workers describe hands and arms being targeted in ‘merciless’ beatings as protests over low wages turn increas…
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‘We know the pain’: freed India coffee workers lead way from bonded labour
Thousands of families are trapped by debts on plantations in south-west Karnataka, despite the practice suppos…
- Employment, Environment, Global development, India, Marine life, Oceans, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, Women, Women's rights and gender equality
‘A dying art’: India’s female seaweed divers look to a brighter future for their girls
For generations, mothers in Tamil Nadu have taught their daughters the dangerous trade. But while their work h…
- Employment, Global development, Global health, Middle East and North Africa, Migration, Nepal, Qatar, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Going abroad cost me my health’: Nepal’s migrant workers coming home with chronic kidney disease
Men under 40 are coming home in need of dialysis, after working in intense heat with limited access to drinkin…