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'The harder you look the more you find': Nepal's hidden leprosy | Rebecca Ratcliffe
Published: 22/04/2019Almost two decades ago the World Health Organization declared leprosy eliminated, but millions of cases go undiagnosed One summer’s morning Paniya Sardar noticed a strange mark on her leg. It was the ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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'I don't know how my children will survive': Zimbabwe in crisis | Nyasha Chingono
Published: 19/04/2019Cyclone Idai washed away the crops that survived a savage drought, leaving 70% of the population in dire need of food Mutemarare, 61, walks through his corn field, desperately looking for remnants of ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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Malaysia investigates women who discussed their 'dehijabbing'
Published: 18/04/2019Move by Islamic authorities condemned as attempt to ‘intimidate women activists’ Three women in Malaysia who held an event discussing their decision to stop wearing the hijab are being investigated by ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com
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Bangladeshi teenager set on fire after accusing teacher of harassment
Published: 18/04/2019Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and burned at her school, dying 10 days later of her injuries A teenage Bangladeshi girl who reported being sexually harassed has died after being set on fir ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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'I lost consciousness': woman whipped by the Taliban over burqa without veil | Haroon Janjua
Published: 18/04/2019Aziza’s story reflects the growing number of violent public assaults on women deemed to be in breach of sharia law in Afghanistan One of four women who was recently subjected to a brutal public lashin ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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High court suspends Home Office policy limiting support for slavery victims
Published: 17/04/2019Judge rules that stopping access to safe housing, counselling and financial assistance after 45 days risks ‘irreparable harm’ A high court judge has suspended a Home Office policy that cuts off after ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com
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Between Punishment and Mercy – Alternative Sanctions and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
Published: 17/04/2019The following post on the use of alternative sentences to blend restorative and retributive justice in Colombia was written by Luke Moffett. Luke is a senior lecturer at Queen’s University Belfa ... Read moreSource: justiceinconflict.org -
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Hearing postponed for 'private reasons' in trial of 11 Saudi women
Published: 17/04/2019Defendants, several of whom campaigned for right to drive, given no new date for hearing A hearing in the trial of several prominent Saudi women’s rights activists has been postponed, despite intense ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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Mounting concern over cholera health crisis in Yemen
Published: 17/04/2019More than 2,000 new cases reported every day, with 25% of those affected being children under five Yemen is facing a massive resurgence of cholera in what was already one of the world’s worst outbreak ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com
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'For me, it was everything': the trailblazing school for trans people | Natalie Alcoba
Published: 17/04/2019At 15, bigotry drove Viviana Gonzalez from school. Decades on, a dedicated school in Buenos Aires is putting wrong to right Viviana Gonzalez vividly remembers her first day of high school. She was 12, ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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How DFID can better manage complexity in development programming
Published: 17/04/2019This briefing note explores how DFID can design and manage flexible systems to deal with complex development challenges. Read moreSource: odi.org.uk -
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Bashir to the ICC? Seeing the Forest for the Trees, While Preparing for One to Fall
Published: 16/04/2019This article was originally published at Open Canada. After 30 years as president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir is out of power. It is difficult to overstate how remarkable it is to write those words. Afte ... Read moreSource: justiceinconflict.org
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Portable kit to treat babies with jaundice goes on trial in Peru
Published: 16/04/2019Jaundice affects 60% of babies. Left untreated it can be life-threatening. But treatment has always been difficult to access in rural Peru Health workers in a remote province high in the Peruvian Ande ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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'No one believes this vote will be fair': Egypt protesters cast doubt on poll
Published: 16/04/2019President Sisi blocked access to opposition websites, introduced draconian penalties and vowed to punish journalists ahead of vote As the world watches the peaceful revolution that is changing Sudan i ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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China and global development: what to read ahead of the Belt and Road Forum
Published: 16/04/2019What the Belt and Road initiative is, how it serves China's domestic interests, its impact on partner countries, and criticism of the project. Read moreSource: odi.org.uk
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Fear and despair engulf refugees in Libya's 'market of human beings'
Published: 15/04/2019Long the target of reported abuses, refugees in Libya now claim they are being recruited by militias – a potential war crime On the roofs of the highest buildings in Tajoura, a military complex and mi ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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Public finance and development: eight things to read in April
Published: 15/04/2019Kenya’s tax treaty with Mauritius; revising corporate taxation; gender-responsive budgets; exiting from aid; fiscal policies for climate action, and more. Read moreSource: odi.org.uk -
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Cloth, cow dung, cups: how the world's women manage their periods
Published: 13/04/2019For women living without access to basic sanitation, menstruation can be especially challenging. Their resourcefulness knows no bounds All photographs courtesy of WaterAid From animal skins and old ra ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com
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