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Social protection

News, comment and features on social protection in the developing world, including initiatives to protect and help vulnerable, marginalised and poor people

May 2024

  • Syrian children pose for a photo on a narrow street in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Beirut

    ‘If they see a Syrian, they beat them up’: the refugees living in fear in Lebanon

    The death of a Christian political leader has sparked a wave of vigilante attacks on Syrians, fuelled by political scapegoating

July 2020

  • Philip Alston

    Former UN expert decries Spain's 'utterly inadequate' social protection system

    Philip Alston says Covid-19 crisis has underlined scale of challenge facing country

January 2019

  • Street children in Addis Ababa

    Homeless children struggle to survive on the streets of Ethiopia's capital

    Driven from their rural homes by family problems and lack of opportunity, more and more children are making for Addis Ababa

November 2018

  • A Nepalese woman waits for a refill of her cooking gas cylinders, in Kathmandu

    Women's rights and gender equality
    'I can't breathe': older women do double the unpaid work of men, says study

    Study of 31 countries finds women over 60 undertake domestic and care work spanning up to to seven hours a day

August 2017

  • Two Afghan women carry cans of cooking oil provided by US Aid in Kabul on Wednesday, 21 November 2001

    Canada’s international aid policy is now ‘feminist’. It still won’t help women

    Rafia Zakaria
    The western aid-industrial complex needs to change if it wants to actually help women, writes author Rafia Zakaria

July 2017

  • A mural in Sao Paulo by street artist Paulo Ito, created ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, shows a crying child with only a football to eat

    'People are getting poorer': hunger and homelessness as Brazil crisis deepens

    Unemployment and social instability threaten unwelcome return to the past in recession-hit country once seen as a model for developing economies

November 2016

  • Jay Z performs during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Jay Z and Coldplay to share festival bill in Mumbai

    Both are to make their first appearances in India at the Global Citizen festival this month, alongside local heroes Tendulkar and Amitabh Bachchan

October 2016

  • Ugandan man with cash transfer

    Dignity, not poverty – the cash grants helping Uganda's older generation

    A programme of small cash transfers is having a big impact, empowering Uganda’s vulnerable older people

May 2016

  • A man repairs fishing nets in Conakry in 2014.

    The IMF has not lived up to its own hype on social protection

    Alexander Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs and Lawrence King
    The International Monetary Fund claims to support health, education and welfare programmes. Yet our research shows enforcing fiscal austerity remains its real concern

March 2016

  • Going up ... Tom Hiddleston in High-Rise

    The Guardian's Film Weekly
    Disney's happy poor and High Rise reviewed – the Dailies film podcast

    The Guardian film team’s round-up of Monday’s movie news and reviews

January 2016

  • Activists gather around an effigy of the Philippine president Benigno Aquino III on Human Rights Day 2015

    Access to justice for all? Now that would be a measurably good thing

    Stacey Cram and Vivek Maru
    Justice is bigger than police and prisons, it is the key to exercising our rights. The methods we use to evaluate it must therefore be correspondingly broad

December 2015

  • FGM protection orders can stop girls from being taken out of the UK to undergo the procedure.

    Only 18 FGM protection orders issued to protect UK girls since launch

    Health professionals urged to be ‘braver’ in applying initiative to safeguard thousands of children

September 2015

  • Nepalese earthquake victims collect belongings from a temporary shelter after the Hanumente River overflowed following monsoon rain in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on August 27, 2015. Monsoon rains are slowing rebuilding and relief efforts after nearly 8,900 people died and some 600,000 homes were reduced to rubble across the impverished Himalayan nation following the deastating earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25. AFP PHOTO / Prakash MATHEMAPRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images

    Micro-insurance offers families in poorer countries protection from destitution

    Increasing access to health, life and accident insurance is helping to prevent already vulnerable people being propelled into further privation

June 2015

  • Holi celebrations at a widows' ashram in Uttar Pradesh

    Remember the world’s many widows

    Letter: Hundreds of millions of women and their children across the world suffer exploitation, deprivation and exclusion when their husbands die

May 2015

  • A vegetable market in Beira, the capital of Mozambique's Sofala province. Mozambique is one of eight countries on course to meet the millennium development goal on eradicating hunger.

    Social protection schemes hold key to beating world hunger, says UN

  • A survivor of the Nepal earthquake at a temporary shelter in Sankhu on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

    When disaster strikes, cash transfers can offer older people a vital lifeline

    Toby Porter
  • albino 10

    Albinism in Tanzania: slow progress in combatting violence and discrimination

  • albino 6

    Albinism in Tanzania: safe havens in schools and support centres - in pictures

March 2015

  • Evgeny Morozov

    Silicon Valley likes to promise ‘digital socialism’ – but it is selling a fairytale

    Evgeny Morozov
    Evgeny Morozov: The tech industry says it can tackle inequality, and governments are keen to let it try. The choice that citizens now face is not between the market and the state, but between politics and non-politics

February 2015

  • E6T1GH Anuak Tribe Woman Cleaning The Ground In Abobo, The Former Anuak King Village, Gambela Region, Ethiopia

    British support for Ethiopia scheme withdrawn amid abuse allegations

    Department for International Development will no longer back $4.9bn project that critics claim has funded a brutal resettlement programme
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