global development
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Good in a crisis? Tackle our humanitarian aid teasers and find outReckon 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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Silence far from golden for child labourers in the country's minesOfficial records deny its very existence, but the grim reality is that gold unearthed by children working in Ugandan mines is flowing freely into the global market -
Everything you need to know about IstanbulPoliticians will meet in Istanbul on 23-24 May to debate how to deal with global crises that have been exacerbated by war, climate change and natural disasters -
Why are so many children around the world out of school?As the world humanitarian summit approaches, Lucy Lamble looks at why 65 million children can’t access adequate education
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Children dream of education – and peaceReconciliation, hope and forgiveness are key subjects in CAR as teachers attempt to instil in their pupils the value of knowledge in a violent country
news
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Hundreds of UN schools in Middle East attacked, damaged or closedAlmost half of schools in Syria, Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Jordan have been disrupted by conflict, says report
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Humans damaging the environment faster than it can recover, UN findsRadical action is needed to combat increasing rate of environmental damage to water sources, land, biodiversity and marine life, report shows
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Global life expectancy increases to 71.4 yearsLife is getting longer, reports World Health Organisation, at the fastest rate since the 1960s
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Worsening economies threaten to undo gains against poverty – ILOUN agency urges west to focus on helping developing world create more sustainable and better paid jobs, rather than just on aid
in depth
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Venezuelans on the food and economic crisis blighting their daily livesFood shortages and soaring black market prices are making life a misery for people across the country
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'I just got trapped': Nepal tries to expand girls' horizons beyond marriageChild marriage in Nepal is denying girls education and the country a boost in GDP, but the government is slowly challenging the status quo
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Story of cities #44: will Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp, really close?Twenty-five years after it opened, Kenya has announced its third biggest ‘city’, the Dadaab refugee complex, is to be shut down. But for many residents, this sprawling slum in an inhospitable desert is the only home they know
talking points
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We must rebuild farmers' resilience after Ethiopia's catastrophic El NiñoBefore this year’s drought, farmers’ yields were tripling in some regions. With the right investment, Ethiopia can get back on track for middle-income status
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How do you protect women's rights on a shoestring?The answer, broadly, is with great difficulty. Well done to the UK on leading the way. Now it needs to stump up more cash for grassroots organisations
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30 million children have lost their homes – they must not lose their educationAs the international community has fiddled, the education opportunities of a generation of Syrian children have burned. A new fund could help change that
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Students Speak: the UN's 'famous five' security council must changeWe asked, you answered. Students say they would change the security council and sort out tax havens if they landed the UN top job
pictures, video & audio
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Why do women still die in childbirth, asks Emily Watson – videoImagine having a baby with no midwives, doctors or medicines nearby. Each year, more than 300,000 women die after complications in pregnancy and childbirth
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Dentro de La Ciudad de las Mujeres en Colombia – podcastKary Stewart visita La Ciudad de las Mujeres en Turbaco, a las afueras de Cartagena, en el norte de Colombia
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'I get scared if I sleep alone': street children in BangladeshSave the Children is working to support the world’s poorest children. One of their centres, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, offers shelter to children who live on the streets
games & quizzes
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World Water Day quiz – are you a fount of wisdom?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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The world's most powerful people – quizAre 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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Where is your boss more likely to be a woman? Take our global inequality quizAre you top of the rich list when it comes to knowing about inequality or is your knowledge bank a little bit empty?
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The world in 2015: how much do you know? – quizFrom the pope to historic elections, we test how much you have been paying attention to global events this year
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Women's rights and gender equality in focusWomen's rights and gender equality in focus'I just got trapped': Nepal tries to expand girls' horizons beyond marriageChild marriage in Nepal is denying girls education and the country a boost in GDP, but the government is slowly challenging the status quo
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusHuman traffickers 'using migration crisis' to force more people into slaveryEU report warns that children have become preferred target for criminal gangs amid concern over thousands of minors disappearing from official view
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networks
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals Network‘It's like trying to hit a football field from the top of Everest' – why aid airdrops just don’t workThe US and Russia have formally called for an expansion of aid airdrops in Syria, but its effectiveness has been met with a lukewarm response from humanitarians
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Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa networkFears DRC president's push to keep power will spark major violenceJoseph Kabila is accused of manoeuvring to remain in office beyond two-term limit, after rival was charged with plotting coup
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How Chibok schoolgirl's private ordeal is being preyed on in publicRather than being given time to grieve and recover, 19-year-old has become the subject of political point-scoring and a media circus
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Meet the woman taking on a century of patriarchy in FifaFatma Samoura is the first female and non-European on organisation’s executive. How did the sport get away with this for so long?
Children fleeing conflict deserve more than razor wire and border fences