Poor people need aid but it needs to be targeted and the structures that perpetuate global inequality must also be tackled, says Natasha Adams.
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Poor people need aid but it needs to be targeted and the structures that perpetuate global inequality must also be tackled, says Natasha Adams.
Filed in: Africa Aid Food Hunger NGOs Poverty United Kingdom
NGO director Jamal Kidwai and activist and writer Praful Bidwai go head-to-head - read their arguments and join the debate.
Human rights lawyer Errol Mendes and aid campaigner Jonathan Glennie go head-to-head - read their arguments and join the debate.
Filed in: Development Human Rights
Microsoft’s former CEO has made massive donations to global health programmes but an investigation by Andrew Bowman reveals some unpleasant side-effects.
Filed in: Aid Development Ethics NGOs Wealth
New columnist Lauri Kubuitsile introduces dry and dusty Mahalapye- a town that has stolen her heart.
A case study for our World Development text book
Filed in: Development India
If international leaders are to help Somalia, they first need to acknowledge their role in its tragedy, say Mark Bradbury and Laura Hammond.
Filed in: Development Hunger Somalia
Mark Schuller, an expert on the relief effort after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, talks about the positive and negative aspects of NGO relief work in the two years since.
Haiti is not just recovering from the earthquake but from the political and economic interventions of recent decades, as Phillip Wearne explains.
More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the cash? Nick Harvey investigates.
Sally Healy, Associate Fellow of the African Programme at Chatham House, discusses the politicization of aid to Somalia in our latest Radio NI interview.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
With capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara visits an organization fighting for children's rights in Delhi and hears some distressing stories.
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