Issues: Global development
Online resources to help you understand issues relating to lifting developing nations out of poverty.
- How will world-wide falling populations impact society? [video]
- How the differences between Generation Y and Z will impact the USA and the world. [video]
- Global poverty is on the way out on Earth. [video]
- Vidhi Doshi on Electrifying India: The Day Rural Hotasar Finally Saw the Light [web page]
- Put science at the centre of development to eliminate poverty | Sue Desmond-Hellmann and Nick Hurd [web page]
- Men is the three-letter word that has been left out of the Zika warnings. [web page]
- Pakistan's "Avon women" offering contraception door to door. [web page]
- Amnesty International claims that children as young as seven are involved in the mining of cobalt, a metal that is used in cellphones. [web page]
- Isn't it Europe, not Africa, that is overpopulated? [web page]
- In Iraq, a UK company "hired former child soldiers" as mercenaries. [web page]
- India is planning to begin a large-scale project to redirect the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. [web page]
- A UN panel cautioned that women's empowerment would be meaningless without good employment. [web page]
- A different kind of refugee problem: Central American women fleeing violence in their own countries. [web page]
- Asia needs to cooperate together on everything from environment preservation to airport construction | Vinod Thomas and Marco Gatti. [web page]
- The African Avengers are a group of comic book authors that are shaking up the superhero genre. [web page]
- 'I just got trapped': Nepal tries to expand girls' horizons beyond marriage [web page]
- Meet the Indian street youngsters who are publishing their own newspaper. [web page]
- It's possible that global inequality is considerably worse than we realise. [web page]
- Natural catastrophes are bringing the world to its knees, according to a risk expert. [web page]
- Masaai leader Goldman receives a reward after his win in Tanzanian land rights. [web page]
- The world's cities are poisoned by a black cloud of dirt. [web page]
- The top ten data sources for international development studies. [web page]
- Conflict has turned schools to rubble and ruins — in photos. [web page]
- According to a research, educating females may reduce child marriage in Bangladesh by a third. [web page]
- How art is assisting Syrian refugees in preserving their culture. [web page]
- Kenyan girls ride their bikes to school in search of a better education | Robert Kibet [web page]
- The city at the epicentre of Brazil's Zika outbreak is struggling from the disease's pervasive impacts. [web page]
- Farmers in East Africa are being rewarded for allowing grass to grow beneath their feet | Robert Kibet. [web page]
- From gowns to degrees: a university in Bangladesh welcomes Bangladeshi garment workers | Sarah Lazarus [web page]
- Jonathan Watts and Uki Goi of Jonathan Watts and Uki Goi of Jonathan Watts and Uki Goi of Jonathan Watts and Uki Goi of Jonathan Watts and Uki Goi of Jonathan Watts and Uki Goi [web page]
- The World Health Organization declares the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be ended. [web page]
- The Syrian peace negotiations need more women. [web page]
- Communities in Sudan are now recognising the need of educating females | Yousra Elbagir. [web page]
- There are 12 ways that the arts may help people take action on climate change. [web page]
- It's not acceptable to bombard hospitals and schools with bombs. Vickie Hawkins is the person behind the pseudonym. [web page]
- In images, people are protesting to #Breakfreeoffossilfuels. [web page]
- According to the most recent worldwide index, 46 million people are enslaved. [web page]
- Is the world now recognising the importance of intersex rights? [web page]
- Ethiopians are enraged by corruption and the development of agriculture in their country. [web page]
- Isis-enslaved Yazidi women and children are welcomed into Germany | Lara Whyte. [web page]
- The terrible history of Peruvian elections – video [web page]
- What is the most dangerous location to live? [web page]
- 'I paid the price, I own your son': Indian brides fight back in anti-dowry films | Amrit Dhillon [web page]
- Helping wounded animals after the earthquake in Ecuador, according to the diaries. [web page]
- 'Time was running out': Honduran activist's last days marked by threats [web page]
- The Geneva Conventions are needed now more than ever because of atrocities in war | Helen Durham. [web page]
- The Guatemalan conviction on sexual slavery demonstrates that women's bodies are not battlegrounds | Catalina Ruiz-Navarro [web page]
- El Nio is creating a worldwide food catastrophe, according to the United Nations. [web page]
- 'In Guatemala to be a feminist is not welcomed, a lesbian, even less so. I am a lesbian feminist' [web page]
- Electrocution, rape and submersion: 'gay cures' and the fight to end them [web page]
- Rise in contraceptive use provides promise for population control. [web page]
- There is increasing pressure on Theresa May to accept 3,000 immigrant children who are all alone in the UK. [web page]
- Bolivia's cholitas: female wrestlers put discrimination in a stranglehold | Dan Collyns. [web page]
- Ethiopian prime minister: 'We are an island of stability in a troubled region' [web page]
- The Magnificent Seven: a worldwide storey that puts women's rights front and centre | Anna Leach. [web page]
- Who will rescue the white saviours from themselves, if not a secret aid worker? [web page]
- Africa's oil tycoons are facing uncertain times as the commodities boom fades. [web page]
- As Mozambique's rivers dry up, so do the prospects of a crop | Vidal, John. [web page]
- According to studies, expat salaries may be up to 900 percent more than native wages. [web page]
- Are Bill Gates and David Rockefeller using their clout to help impoverished states define their own agendas? [web page]
- Six nations are making strides in the area of LGBT rights. [web page]
- After an onboard explosion, a Somali plane makes an emergency landing in Mogadishu. [web page]
- UN: South Sudan troops raped people during civil conflict. [web page]
- In images, pregnancy and childbirth in Haiti. [web page]
- Drought-stricken Indians go to cities in quest of water. [web page]
- Sinking states: the islands facing the effects of climate change. [web page]
- 'I lost my youth in prison': Salvadoran women seek redress over abortion law [web page]
- Sibylla Brodzinsky reports about Colombia's City of Women, which is a safe refuge for women fleeing abuse. [web page]
- Will India allow menstruation women to enter its temples and mosques? | Amrit Dhillon [web page]
- A UK gangmaster has been found responsible for victims of modern slavery by a court. [web page]
- Buzzwords are sabotaging progress. [web page]
- Children in South Sudan are'very, very badly malnourished,' according to Nadene Ghouri, a journalist in the country. [web page]
- It's time to return stolen items | Jonathan Glennie. [web page]
- As physicians in Yemen, we face more than just battle wounds | Alan de Lima Pereira. [web page]
- Meet the frontline of the new solar economy, which is experiencing an employment surge. [web page]
- My life as a midwife in Haiti is chronicled in this field report. [web page]
- UK NGOs raise concerns about Priti Patel's new approach to foreign aid. [web page]
- Undernutrition and obesity are twin scourges that food companies are taking far too long to confront. [web page]
- In Italy, Gambian migrants who risk their lives find life less than sweet | Louise Hunt. [web page]
- 'I get scared if I sleep alone': street children in Bangladesh [web page]
- The cleanup of the Niger Delta oil disaster has begun, but it may take a quarter-century. [web page]
- Peru sex worker's campaign trail: 'I'll put order in the big brothel that is congress' | Dan Collyns [web page]
- Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist, was sentenced to 16 years in prison by the United Nations. [web page]
- Peruvian women who were forcefully sterilised find their voice. [web page]
- Gasoline traffickers in Nepal bypass border blockades despite running out of fuel. [web page]
- Empowering Myanmar's LGBT community: from victims to agents of change | Charlotte England. [web page]
- Gaziantep is home to ISIS assassins, sex merchants, and a mission to reconstruct Syria. [web page]
- In Yemen, life is difficult because "everyone has forgotten us." [web page]
- What role can technology play in the battle against corruption? [web page]
- After the earthquake in Nepal, a photo essay tells stories of survival and optimism. [web page]
- Burundi's violence follows fugitives across borders, leaving them with nowhere to go. [web page]
- Why are impoverished nations unable to get the climate financing that has been promised to them? [web page]
- Seven videos on LGBTI rights across the globe that will inspire you. [web page]
- Germany proposes diverting 10% of EU money to address the refugee problem. [web page]
- The yellow fever epidemic in Angola demonstrates the need of vaccine financing | Sam Agbo. [web page]
- To bail out the banks, we print money. Why can't we do the same thing to combat climate change? [web page]
- The Zika virus was born in the Zika forest, which has caused dread across the globe. [web page]
- Photojournalist Manu Brabo on Syria: 'If I take a picture here, am I hurting someone?' [web page]
- Climate concerns may destabilise financial markets, according to an EU watchdog. [web page]
- Where there are no males on the streets: a Nepalese village where women rule | Sune Engel Rasmussen [web page]
