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Overseas Development Institute survey finds 15% of six- to 14-year-olds living in poorest households work an average of 64 hours a week
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UN Development Programme chief Helen Clark applauds project designed to improve audit capacities and ensure multinationals observe local tax laws
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Officially, sexual violence has declined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dubbed the ‘rape capital of the world’. But frontline workers tell a different story
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How to end gender violence? Give money to visionary local groups
Jessica NeuwirthThe 16-day campaign against gender violence is a chance to review financial support for women’s rights groups and steer funds to those with direct impact -
Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast to block imports from oil companies and traders of diesel with sulphur levels many times European limit
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A scheme that alleviates poverty while giving training and support has transformed the lives of more than a million of the world’s poorest families
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A programme to improve digital literacy has provided 1.2 million women in rural India with access to technology hitherto denied them by a conservative culture
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Joana Silochina Foster, the formidable Ghanaian-British activist and lawyer who died last month, co-founded Africa’s first feminist philanthropic institution
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Thursday’s byelection takes place in a region that has been crippled by a broken economic system, so of course it will reaffirm the referendum result
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In his latest update from Sierra Leone, Isaac Bayoh, who now works with Medici con l’Africa, looks at how people are coping a year after the outbreak ended
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From what we can discern about our promised new role in the world post Brexit, it seems a morality-free zone
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Editorial: Boko Haram’s attempt to create a caliphate in Africa has been a disaster. Millions of displaced people need food, medicine and help – which could be funded by the cash UK police have seized
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To mark International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day, activists from Honduras, Nepal, China and Egypt share their stories of persecution
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Photographer Bhargavi Joshi’s images represent the violence and injustices that confront women worldwide, regardless of age, race, culture, education or background
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More than 99.5% of Cuban children attend an early childhood education programme or institution. Kary Stewart visits Havana to speak to families, doctors and teachers about a Latin American success story
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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 focusBritain champions female refugees abroad only to fail them here
Britain champions female refugees abroad only to fail them here
Kasia StaszewskaDespite saying it wants to protect women from sexual violence in conflict, the UK fails to provide safe, legal routes to sanctuary and handles asylum insensitively -
Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusPope urges action against trafficking and labour abuses in fishing industryMarking World Fisheries Day, pope calls on international community to break ‘chain of exploitation’ of vulnerable workers
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals NetworkAid in South Sudan: We're mopping up while the tap is still runningEven the most experienced humanitarians are being ground down by the violence and short-termism in South Sudan
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa networkWar crimes trial of former Ugandan child soldier Dominic Ongwen to beginEx-Lord’s Resistance Army commander is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by international criminal court
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Founder of app that helps pregnant women says governments must not rely on technology to plug gaps in basic services
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Despite social and sporting progress, even the best teams at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations struggle to fund friendlies
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UK champions female refugees abroad only to fail them here