How do we put indigenous peoples at the heart of preserving fragile habitats? Plus, revealing research from the Overseas Development Institute

The Mbera refugee camp is hosting rising numbers of refugees, despite a peace deal. Plus, how a newspaper in northern India is breaking taboos

Huge numbers of Nigerian women arriving in Italy are forced into prostitution. Plus, as the Games begin, favela residents look back on the last 12 months

As the Rio Olympics draw near, we hear how the Games have affected life in the city’s favelas. Plus, a report from the international Aids conference in Durban

Is the world over-populated or under-developed? We crunch the data. Plus, trash and treasure in Lixão do Jóquei – one of Brazil’s largest landfills

As the UN says 65 million people are now refugees, we find out how one Syrian family has adapted to life in the UK. Plus, our latest podcast, on sex education

More than half of all Africans could live in cities by 2050, but how will this affect development? Plus, a look at this year’s global peace index

Clár Ní Chonghaile reports from Bangui as CAR emerges, gradually and painfully, from a prolonged conflict

Our animated video explores why so many women still die in childbirth. Plus, grassroots women’s rights organisations are missing out on funding

Why does the world spend so much more on responding to disasters than on reducing the threat they pose? Plus, how severe drought is affecting southern Africa

We digest the latest aid figures from the OECD and Publish What You Fund. Plus, the plight of refugees fleeing violence in Burundi

Lucy Lamble reports from Malawi and Zimbabwe where water shortages are worryingly normal. Plus, the thoughts of locals in the buildup to the Olympics

Mentally ill people are being shackled in Indonesia according to Human Rights Watch. Plus we interview Bertha Cáceres after her mother’s assassination

On International Women’s Day, we take a look at reproductive rights, contraception and gender equality

Sudanese TV show Mashrouy is inspiring entrepreneurship among young people. Plus we interview the sex worker running for Peru’s congress

A mother in Brazil speaks out – one of her twins was born with microcephaly; action needed on access to toilets; landslides and flooding in shanty towns

John Vidal on the smog poisoning our cities; experts look at humanitarian funding models; and the domestic staff living in five-star servitude

Profiling 2015’s most eye-catching ideas. Plus, how to measure people’s access to justice, and a Canadian gold mine causes tensions in Kyrgyzstan

Daily life as the Olympics approach; the women facing prison in El Salvador for losing their babies; reasons to be glad and gloomy over the Paris agreement

Making countries vulnerable to climate change a priority; Africa’s initiative to cut reliance on coal; honouring the principles of the Geneva conventions

Drought and cyclones hit Somaliland; Kenya mobilises money to tackle changing weather; and Colombia indigenous group still cutting girls

Guardian report on allegations of exploitation in Ireland’s fishing fleet; Sierra Leone finally declared free of Ebola; suffering in South Sudan’s ongoing civil war

Earthquake puts children at risk of being trafficked; UN official troubled by World Bank approach to human rights; UN hails Philippines’ typhoon response

Ugandan activist says Nobel nomination ‘already a win’; working with survivors of the Lord’s Resistance Army; and marking the International Day of the Girl

Sustainable development goals formally adopted at UN, a project documenting women and children’s lives around the world, and a report card on nutrition

The African babies we’ve followed since 2005; an all-female taxi firm in India opens economic opportunities; and how legislation limits women’s prospects