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On Tuesday the UN votes on a resolution by African states to halt the work of Vitit Muntarbhorn, reflecting deep international divisions on gay rights
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As UN climate talks start in Marrakech, Morocco calls on world leaders to put the focus on concrete plans for helping Africa’s small-scale farmers
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The 2015 earthquake devastated the Langtang valley. Reconstruction work involves hauling materials up mountain tracks, yet slowly communities are rebuilding their livelihoods to welcome back tourists
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As Paris climate agreement comes into force, inhabitants of Amazon rainforest demand recognition of key role their communities play in conservation
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Court rules that 63 Ugandan schools belonging to chain backed by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had unsanitary learning conditions and unqualified teachers
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Citizenship legislation in Myanmar excludes some communities and restricts the rights of others, even where families have lived in the country for generations
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Grasberg mine in the Indonesian region has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but local communities say it has brought poverty and oppression
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The small Amazonian community of Pacaraima is busy selling food across the frontier but Venezuelans’ desperation is straining local services and goodwill
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The death of Fezekile ‘Khwezi’ Kuzwayo, the woman who accused Jacob Zuma of rape, must not extinguish the powerful principles for which she stood
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Midwife tells of delivering babies by torchlight in flood waters, and fresh threat of cholera as row continues over 2011 outbreak
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Editorial: Priti Patel, DfID’s new secretary of state, appears ideologically opposed to the work of her department. She needs reminding of the millions of lives that aid has saved and improved
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Justice is long overdue for the widows of South African mineworkers
Dean Peacock and Emily Nagisa KeehnIt is vital the court of appeal upholds a ruling that makes South Africa’s gold mining industry accountable to women whose husbands died from silicosis
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Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of tailings from the Grasberg mine end up in the Indonesian province’s Aikwa delta system every day, which the Kamoro tribe say is destroying the landscape on which they rely for food and trade
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Three years after the Ebola outbreak, health clinics in poorer parts of Monrovia, the Liberian capital, still lack running water and have only sporadic sanitation
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Sixty years ago, Sri Lanka was one of the countries most affected by malaria. Dinitha Rathnayake explores how the nation took the bite out of the disease to become malaria-free
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Hundreds of thousands of people drown every year. Many deaths go unrecorded, however, and pressure to teach people to swim is not what it might be
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Reckon you could teach world humanitarian summit delegates a thing or two about aid? Take our quiz and find out if you’re a wizard on human welfare
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Access to water is a basic human right, but roughly one in 10 people globally are without a safe source. To mark World Water Day, try our quiz
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Are you a superpower on sovereignty? Take our quiz to find out if you’re presidential material when it comes to people in power
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Women's rights and gender equality in focusWomen's rights and gender equality in focusAfrican nations attempt to suspend UN's LGBT rights monitorOn Tuesday the UN votes on a resolution by African states to halt the work of Vitit Muntarbhorn, reflecting deep international divisions on gay rights
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusAfrican Union hearing on child slaves hailed as milestone for MauritaniaCase of brothers enslaved at birth to be brought before regional child welfare court after failure to uphold 2011 sentence against Ahmed Ould El Hassine
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals Network¿Por qué la machista Latinoamérica ha elegido más líderes femeninos que Estados Unidos?
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa network'The president thinks he can suppress the truth': Burundi's guerrilla mediaA coup attempt last year provoked a fierce media crackdown. A group of journalists in exile are using the internet to fight back
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Entrepreneurs from around the world gather for a three-day conference looking at how the continent can get creative with the internet
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Global development professionals network Innovation is the answer to a simple question 'Is there a better way'
Till WahnbaeckDevelopment organisations should shift their focus from finding the perfect solution, innovations can be low-tech and just need to be good enough
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