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More and more people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water.

Good News

Progress in drinking water supply and disease control

The two pieces of good news this month are about more people gaining access to safe drinking water and four countries being declared free of the neglected tropical disease trachoma.

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Protestor in Santo Domingo on 25 November.

Women’s rights

Dominican women want laws to protect them

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by Marjorie Pons Piñeyro
Women’s-rights activists celebrating in Buenos Aires after legislators passed the new law on 30 December 2020.

Reproductive health

Argentina’s new abortion law

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by Virginia Caballero
by María Lía Ghezzi

Ethnic strife

An elusive truth

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by Mireille Kanyange
The design of the simple timber units is based on a modular system.

Informal sector

Abidjan’s acute housing shortage

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by Irit Eguavoen
Anti-Facebook protest in Manila in 2019.

Social media

Hundreds of thousands of online trolls support Duterte

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by Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles
The Sahel region’s water shortages are becoming worse due to the climate crisis.

The Sahel

Moving from crisis to dynamism on Sahara’s southern edges

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by Mabingué Ngom

Homes

Informal real-estate business in West Africa

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by Irit Eguavoen
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Seaports

Building a better gateway

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by Derrick Silimina
Populist leaders with anti-democratic track records: Duterte and Modi in Delhi in 2018.

Blog

To promote democracy, Biden should lead by example

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by Hans Dembowski
Commemorating Stan Swamy in Kolkata in July 2021.

Human rights

India has become “a flawed democracy”

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by Mira Mandal