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Collaboration between groups has been hard to achieve in the fight against slavery, but new partnerships are driving change
Collaboration is not an issue that immediately springs to mind when considering the international fight against global slavery and trafficking. Yet in a sector so divided by geography and so crippled by a lack of funding, the ability to work together, share information and, crucially, resources has the capacity to transform the work of individual organisations into a global movement capable of tackling one of most complex and challenging human rights issues of our time.
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While biofuels have facilitated slow but positive change for farmers in Brazil, other countries have been less successful
Biofuels have long been hailed as one of the potential answers to climate change. Their environmental credentials are controversial, but a handful of countries are now looking at them from another angle entirely: they want to use biofuels to try to reduce poverty among rural smallholder farmers.
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Flooding, often during monsoons and sometimes accompanied by typhoons, displaced the most people last year
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Join us from 1-3pm on Thursday 30 May to discuss voluntary sector organisations and data
Being data literate has never been more important to charity professionals. Whether you work in fundraising, finance or communications, understanding how to collect and communicate data is now a significant part of the job.
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More than 32 million people fled their homes last year because of disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes
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We summarise the points made by a live chat panel on how the global health community can work towards eliminating NTDs
Dr Paul Emerson, trachoma control programme director, The Carter Centre, Atlanta, USA
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Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration's attacks on press freedoms emerges
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What's the point of new development goals that don't learn from the limitations of the current agenda? Sakiko Fukuda-Parr suggests the MDGs core strengths are also their weaknesses
Simplicity, numerical targets and consensus are often cited as key strengths of the millennium development goals (MDGs). But before adopting these for a post-2015 development agenda, we must fully assess the MDG experience and acknowledge the research findings that show that these attributes are also sources of weakness for the MDGs. Below I explain how.
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Atrocities were committed on both sides during Ivory Coast's post-election conflict two years ago, and few face justice. What impact will this have on long-term reconciliation?
Henrietta Williams
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At first glance, Ivory Coast has come a long way since 2010's post-election violence. But is the progress merely an illusion?
Construction sites loom at every twist and turn of the super six-lane highways that weave around the Ébrié lagoon in the heart of Abidjan. Roads are being widened. New apartment blocks and shopping malls are joining 1970s skyscrapers on the skyline. And the final touches on a shiny new high-rise tower signal the African Development Bank's return after more than a decade.
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