More than 13 million people are at risk of hunger in the Sahel. Jack Craze reports on reactions and reasons why.
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More than 13 million people are at risk of hunger in the Sahel. Jack Craze reports on reactions and reasons why.
‘Ethics tzar’ Meredith Alexander explains why she resigned from the London Olympic committee
Haiti after the earthquake: today’s problems and today’s solutions. Part two of the Haiti Support Group round table.
Environmentalists protest authorities’ shoddy disposal of hazardous waste from Bhopal. Jack Laurenson reports.
Filipino children made homeless after December’s tropical storm need proper care, writes Iris Gonzales.
Filed in: Children Disasters Philippines
As a new campaign kicks off, London 2012 organizers are challenged to drink Bhopal’s ‘clean’ water.
What do you do if your job is to write about a tragedy of which you are part? Iris Gonzales meets some of the journalists whose lives were turned upside down by tropical storm Sendong.
Filed in: Disasters Philippines
A strange phenomenon is worsening an already dire situation for the country’s trees, says Syed Hamad Ali.
Filed in: Disasters Environment Forests Pakistan
This year, 25 December was about survival, not celebration, for the people of northern Mindanao in the Philippines, says Iris Gonzales.
Filed in: Disasters Philippines Water
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.
Filed in: Development Disasters Haiti NGOs
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.