Poverty
- Children, Education, Environment, Global development, India, Plastics, Poverty, South and Central Asia, World news
The Indian school where students pay for lessons with plastic waste
Villagers once burned the toxic waste as fuel, but a pioneering couple’s radical education model uses it much …
- Children, Coronavirus, Education, Global development, India, Poverty, Schools, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Lessons via loudspeaker: the students studying across India’s digital divide
How do you learn from home without a laptop? Teachers are getting creative, but the pandemic remains a vast ch…
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From schoolboy to tea seller: Covid poverty forces India’s children into work
The pandemic has pushed millions of urban poor into crisis – and left children struggling to help their famili…
- Animal welfare, Animals, Asia Pacific, Japan, Loneliness, Poverty, Social exclusion, Society, World news
Tiny Japanese home ‘filled’ with 164 starving dogs
Experts say extreme animal hoarding cases are linked to poverty, isolation and ageing populationHealth officia…
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‘I feel free here’: how a miracle girls’ school was built in India’s ‘golden city’
A strikingly-designed centre reminiscent of Rajasthan’s famous forts will soon be opening its doors in conserv…
- Education, Engineering, Global development, Global education, Higher education, India, Poverty, South and Central Asia, Universities, World news
‘My ticket out’: the Indian village where every family has an engineer
Students from a small community traditionally known for weaving are beating the odds to gain coveted universit…
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New Zealand’s astounding wealth gap challenges our ‘fair go’ identity | Max Rashbrooke
New data shows the richest 1% are worth 68 times more than a typical New ZealanderThe extent of wealth inequal…
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus outbreak, Environment, Infectious diseases, Kiribati, Nauru, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Poverty, South Pacific, Water, World news
Pacific’s fight against Covid-19 hamstrung by lack of clean water
Access to clean, safe drinking water across the Pacific is the lowest of any region in the world, raising fear…
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How renamed streets in Mumbai’s slums are encouraging children to study
A mobile school helped Rehmuddin Shaikh become a rugby star. Now a street named after him is inspiring a new g…
- Bangladesh, Coronavirus outbreak, Fashion, Fashion industry, Poverty, South and Central Asia, World news
‘We are on our own’: Bangladesh’s pregnant garment workers face the sack
Employers are avoiding paying maternity benefits and purging union members as orders plummet during Covid-19, …
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‘Let’s do karaoke!’: Bangkok nightlife eases out of lockdown
The city’s bars, clubs and even massage parlours are beginning to buzz again but the absence of tourists is ta…
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New Zealand sheltered its homeless during Covid-19 – but can it last?
Labour-led government has pledged $100m to keep 1,200 motel rooms available for the homeless for a year but ob…
- Bangladesh, Coronavirus outbreak, Epidemics, Fashion, Fashion industry, Poverty, South and Central Asia, World news
Bangladesh garment factories reopen despite coronavirus threat to workers
In an effort to revive the stricken industry plant owners restart production, but labour activists claim safet…
- Coronavirus outbreak, Food poverty, Global development, Governance, Hunger, India, Inequality and development, Nutrition and development, Poverty, South and Central Asia, World news
Where India’s government has failed in the pandemic, its people have stepped in
Civil society has outperformed the state in helping to feed India’s poorest. It should be seen as ally not ene…
- Coronavirus outbreak, Global development, Human trafficking, India, Inequality and development, Infectious diseases, Nutrition and development, Poverty, Prostitution, Sex trade, South and Central Asia, World news
‘They are starving’: women in India’s sex industry struggle for survival
Exclusion from government Covid-19 relief has left many reliant on private food donations, as fears raised ove…