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16 May 2017

  • Woman holding baby girl amina is the mother Binta siddique - her friend is Hanza Absulane

    Nigeria fights polio and Boko Haram, and Chibok girl is reunited with family

    Nigerian volunteers are battling to eradicate polio across the country, and one of the 82 girls freed by Boko Haram is able to see her family again

2 May 2017

  • Joseph Kony<br>The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland Sunday Nov 12 , 2006 at Ri-Kwamba in Southern Sudan. Egeland met with Kony, the elusive leader of Uganda's notorious rebel Lord's Resistance Army and one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, seeking to secure the release of women and children enslaved by the group during their 20-year conflict with the Ugandan government. But Kony denied that his forces are holding prisoners.( AP Photo/Stuart Price, Pool)

    As the search for Joseph Kony ends, we chart his reign of suffering in Uganda

    Communities fear that a resurgence of the Lord’s Resistance Army will mean a return to violence. Our gallery looks back over Kony’s legacy

18 April 2017

  • A health worker gives a polio vaccine to an Afghan refugee child at a UN centre, after the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan reopened, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on 3 April

    Polio vaccinations in Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe's grandmas offer therapy

    Health workers resume vaccinations but suspicion of foreign-run medical teams persists, and we hear how Harare’s grandmothers help by listening on park benches

4 April 2017

  • Almost left for dead when he was injured by a discarded bomb left behind by Boko Haram, Jonathan Gambo faces a long road to recovery, Northern Nigeria.

    The boy who survived a Boko Haram bomb, and saving Dagestan's slaves

    Jonathan Gambo shares his story of recovery after being injured by discarded munitions in Nigeria, and we follow the activists rescuing enslaved brick workers

21 March 2017

  • A malnourished child at a regional hospital in south-western Somalia

    Appeal to fight hunger in east Africa, and the US cuts that pose a threat to women

    Disasters Emergency Committee calls for urgent funds for 16 million people facing hunger, and the US lines up with world’s worst abusers of women’s rights

7 March 2017

  • Hewlett Foundation Grantees in Senegal<br>LANIAR, SENEGAL - AUGUST 14: A mobile clinical outreach team from Marie Stopes International, a specialized sexual reproductive health and family planning organization on a site visit to Laniar health center, a rural area, where they offer many sexual reproductive health services and counseling, including the full range of family planning options, emergency contraception, pre and post natal care, and cervical cancer screening and treatment. August 14, 2014 in Laniar Senegal. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik for The Hewlett Foundation/Reportage by Getty Images)

    Leaders launch fund to counter Trump's 'gag rule', and huge cuts to US aid likely

    Nations pledge millions to mitigate Trump’s block on funding to family planning services worldwide, and outline US budget indicates big fall in aid spending

21 February 2017

  • A queue for food aid in Bentiu, South Sudan, taken in October 2016

    Saving lives under the threat of famine, and tributes to data guru Hans Rosling

    The aid operations hoping to save lives in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen, and remembering the master statistician and development champion

7 February 2017

  • A displaced Syrian woman at a refugee camp in al-Hawl, 14km from the Iraqi border in Syria’s north-eastern Hassakeh province

    The US foreign policy changes that would put millions at risk

    Cuts in contributions to the UN and other institutions that would hit women and girls hardest, plus a look at the likely impact on peace and security

24 January 2017

  • Demonstrators attend the women’s march from UN headquarters to Trump Tower in New York City

    The global fight for women's rights, and a focus on gender inequality in Africa

    The implications of the US’s reinstatement of the global gag rule, plus how African women are joining forces to improve their lot

10 January 2017

  • Children shout at other children through a fence that divides the Proection of Civilian Camp into different parts in the UN Protection of Civilian Camp (POC) Malakal, South Sudan Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016.

    Ethnic violence in South Sudan, and a bid to prevent drowning in Bangladesh

    The UN advises swift action to prevent genocide in South Sudan; saving lives in Bangladesh on a recycled surfboard; plus our 12 days of innovations series

13 December 2016

  • A young girl with the cows that she aquired through a program providing financial investment for adolecent girls funded by Bangladeshi NGO, BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), and the Nike Foundation, on August 8, 2008 in Rural Bangladesh.

    A lifeline for Bangladesh's poorest, and Congolese rape victims search for justice

    Bangladesh scheme delivers financial support and long-term prosperity; plus, a battle against sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

29 November 2016

  • A hostel used by Nepalese migrant workers employed by a labour supply company but working at McDonald’s in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The workers say up to 18 men shared the small space, with most sleeping on the floor.

    Big firms accused over labour abuses; and highlighting gender violence

    Guardian investigations in Malaysia uncover workers’ allegations against Samsung, Panasonic and McDonald’s, plus 16 days of activism

15 November 2016

  • A Donald Trump supporter in Pittsburgh waves his hat at a pre-election rally

    How US aid will be affected by Trump's win, plus the real cost of gold mining

    Will the Trump presidency put humanitarian and development aid under threat? Plus, West Papuans say a $100bn goldmine has brought poverty and oppression

1 November 2016

  • Very ill mothers are transported by the Mobile Prenatal Clinic back to Hospital Ste. Therese for life saving medication and skilled care. The hospital is staffed by 18 graduates of Midwives For Haiti and is also the site of their clinical training program.

    Rise in maternal deaths likely in Haiti, and UN expert speaks out on cholera

    Midwife tells of delivering babies by torchlight in flood waters, and fresh threat of cholera as row continues over 2011 outbreak

18 October 2016

  • Indian children walk along a street near a massive garbage site in New Delhi on September 27, 2016.

    The global crisis of gender inequality – and America's shameful secret

    An International Day of the Girl animation looked at how far we have to go to reach gender parity, with the US ranking lower than Kazakhstan and Algeria

4 October 2016

  • In this April 20, 2015 photo, siblings Piero, Ariana and Priscila eat a lunch of fish, bananas and rice as their parents sell fish at a street market in Belen, a neighborhood nicknamed Venice of the Jungle in Iquitos, Peru. According to official statistics, 40 percent of the children in Belen suffer from malnutrition and 66 percent of the entire population is poor. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

    World Bank issues warning on stunting in children, but points to Peru's success

    Peru succeeds at tackling stunting while World Bank chief threatens to expose countries that fail to, and why the world is falling behind on health goals

20 September 2016

  • Migrants rescued by Red Cross durring crossing between Libya and Italy. Catania. Italy. Grabriel 14 years old from Eritrea.

    Migrants' perilous journeys, and the women who helped convict Habré

    Enduring abuse and starvation to travel from Africa to Europe, and an interview with the courageous rape survivors who testified against Chad’s former dictator

6 September 2016

  • Feb 2016, Sangha forest, Central African Republic. Poachers. The poachers cook the monkey head as the Ba'aka look on. While Ba'aka are obliged by laws theoretically designed to protect the forest to hunt using only their traditional nets and spears, poachers have no such inhibitions. Poachers are the greatest threat to the Ba'aka way of life. The poachers - all ÔBiloÕ- pictured here, killed 7 blue duikers and 1 monkey in their night of hunting. ÔThe reserve is supposed be for the Baaka, but it is a joke. It is filled with guns and snares. Hunting with guns and snares is the biggest threat to the BaÕaka way of life. They now go into the forest and often get hungry. Õ Everyone recognizes these poachers as having been part of the anti-balaka.

    Tribes under threat from conservation, and Africa's children locked in poverty

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

23 August 2016

  • Staff at Khabar Lahariya, the first and only newspaper in India staffed, edited and run by women.

    Malian refugees in Mauritania, and India's all-woman newspaper

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

9 August 2016

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    Nigerian women trafficked to Italy for sex, and the Olympic legacy for Rio's favelas

    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
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