Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: NGOs are no longer drivers of social change; for many saving the world has become big business. How did we lose our way?

Three experts tell us who they think should take the lead in tackling youth unemployment. Do you agree with them?

After fighting tuberculosis for three years, Phumeza Tisile is asking governments to recognise it as a public health emergency

Pune has give an army of mostly Dalit ('untouchable') women the sole rights to collect and recycle the city's mountains of trash, writes Carlin Carr in Mumbai

Two displaced physicians working in camps tell Karem Issa about their lives as refugees and the guilt they feel at having left their country

As the African Union meets this week, nutritionist Akoto K Osei explains what it needs to do to feed a healthy new generation

Religious attitudes in Honduras have contributed to high teen pregnancy and HIV rates, now youth demand better sex education, say Carlisle J Levine and Vanessa Siliezar

For many girls in Uganda, life stops when they get their period. On menstrual hygiene day, find out how one NGO is helping girls stay in school all month long

During times of conflict, delivering normal services becomes almost impossible. One HIV nurse shares his experiences