Poverty
- Climate crisis, Conservatives, Economic policy, Economics, Energy industry, Pakistan, Politics, Poverty, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, Space, UK cost of living crisis, World news
Burn out: Inside the 2 September Guardian Weekly
On the frontline of Britain’s energy bills crisis. Plus: Visions of outer space Get the Guardian Weekly magazi…
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Researchers attach body cameras to children to study New Zealand poverty
Images from world-first project show ‘shameful’ differences between conditions faced by children in most- and …
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‘We’re finished’: Sri Lankans pushed to the brink by financial crisis
Thousands take to the streets to call for the resignation of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa As thousands of angr…
- Communities, Domestic violence, Gangs, Global development, Inequality, Literacy, Pakistan, Poverty, Social exclusion, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news, Young people
‘House of love’: the calm, creative space changing young lives in Karachi
In Lyari, a slum notorious for violence in Pakistan’s most populous city, Mehr Ghar offers young people a safe…
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The rise in global inflation – the hit to living standards across the world
Analysis: From Pakistan to the US, Australia to Germany, the cost of living is rising to new highs and causing…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Child labour, Children, Global development, Human rights, Humanitarian response, Middle East and North Africa, Poverty, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
Scared, hungry and cold: child workers in Kabul – picture essay
As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital’s…
- Garment workers, Human rights, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, Poverty, Protest, Society, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
Revolutionary roads: how the army tried to crush Yangon’s most anti-coup district
Hlaing Thayar was at the centre of Myanmar’s protests, but brutal crackdowns and the collapse of the local gar…
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India homeless shiver through New Delhi cold snap as scores die from exposure
City records coldest January day in nearly a decade while temperatures across month plummet 2-6C below normalI…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Global development, Internally displaced people, Poverty, Social exclusion, South and Central Asia
‘I’ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney’: winter in Afghanistan’s slums
Crushing poverty is forcing starving displaced people to make desperate choicesThe temperature is dropping to …
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‘We live and die by it’: climate crisis threatens Bangladesh’s Sundarbans
Villagers rely more on the forest’s resources, threatening its ecosystem – and leaving them more vulnerable to…
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Covid created 20 new ‘pandemic billionaires’ in Asia, says Oxfam
While wealthiest got richer, 140m people fell into poverty as jobs were lost, wiping out years of gains for po…
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‘On the brink’: drought and politics leave Afghans fighting famine
Aid collapse after Taliban took control means just 2% of people have enough to eat, UN saysIn his seven decade…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Foreign policy, Gordon Brown, Politics, Poverty, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Gordon Brown: west is sleepwalking into Afghanistan disaster
Ex-PM warns poverty and starvation mean country is at risk of world’s biggest humanitarian crisisThe west is “…
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The world on screen: the best movies from Africa, Asia and Latin America
From a Somali love story to a deep dive into Congolese rumba, Guardian writers pick their favourite recent wor…
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‘Colossal waste’: Nobel laureates call for 2% cut to military spending worldwide
Governments urged to use ‘peace dividend’ to help UN tackle pandemics, climate crisis and extreme povertyMore …