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With plenty of sunlight to drive their pumps instead of costly diesel, harvesting salt costs a third of what it used to and has made life for workers much easierIn the expansive salt marshes of the Little Rann of Kutch the bleakness of the sunburnt, tr…
続きを読むThe Jubilee 2000 saw $130bn of debt written off, and yet we now find ourselves in a renewed global debt crisis, says Maria Finnerty of CafodThe Guardian is right to identify the global sovereign debt crisis as one of the most critical impediments to su…
続きを読むBehind a veneer of progress, injustice and inequality propped up by corruption and the caste system haunt the subcontinentThis year, more than 80 countries and half the world’s population face elections. While many islands in the Caribbean go to the po…
続きを読むIn a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Pakistan is reaching thousands of children in slumsPedalling down a narrow alleyway in Karachi’s crowded Lyari Town, Saira Bano slows as she passes a group of children sitting o…
続きを読むResearchers find that in low and middle-income countries owning spectacles can help people over 35 increase their incomeOwning a pair of reading glasses might help people increase their earnings by a third, according to new research.The study, conducte…
続きを読むPooja Sharma has dedicated her life to providing a dignified end for thousands of unclaimed bodies lying in mortuaries in India, though she pays for it herself – and it ended her engagementOn an overcast, blustery day, with cars honking in the distance…
続きを読むStory of garment worker’s ordeal in Bangladesh, where she works in a factory producing clothes for brands including Tesco, Matalan and Next, shines light on low factory wagesEvery night, Ruby Rafiq* lies awake on the cold, hard floor of her small room,…
続きを読むClose to half the crisis-hit country’s under-fives go hungry and one in five suffer from wasting. Mothers tell here of their struggle as Unicef warns of a blighted generation For more than a year now, Anne Roshel has had no milk to give her two childre…
続きを読むIn India’s most progressive state, food for hospital patients and visitors feeds the hungry and helps create an ‘ethos of equality’It’s a cliche that food cooked with love is the best, but in Kerala thousands of women have proved that cooking with a se…
続きを読むTop tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children workSome of the world’s leading tea manufacturers, including Tetley and Lipton, are examining working conditions on the planta…
続きを読むProgramme spent £2.7bn between 2016 and 2021 but is fragmented and lacks a clear rationale, report saysBritain’s aid programme to India is fragmented, lacks a clear rationale and does little to counter the negative trends in human rights and democracy …
続きを読むAs a new Guardian documentary explores the impact of one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, we speak to some of those who, like millions across the country, were left poorer and more vulnerable than everWhen Ram Yadav fled India’s strict countrywide l…
続きを読むOn the frontline of Britain’s energy bills crisis. Plus: Visions of outer space Get the Guardian Weekly magazine delivered to your home addressThe spiralling cost of living has been an increasingly urgent problem in the UK. But for many people, huge ri…
続きを読むImages from world-first project show ‘shameful’ differences between conditions faced by children in most- and least-advantaged householdsBody cameras attached to more than 150 children have captured the “shameful” extent of child poverty in New Zealand…
続きを読むThousands take to the streets to call for the resignation of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa As thousands of angry cries and anti-government slogans filled the streets of the Sri Lankan city Colombo on Saturday, Chanda Upul stood quietly nearby, desperate…
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