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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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Drinking water supplier in Istanbul.

Urban development

Urban growth can cause water supply problems

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by Sarah C. Schreiner
Improved slum in Kolkata.

Urbanisation

Stages of improving neglected communities’ lives

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by Diana Mitlin
by David Satterthwaite
SDI is a movement of the urban poor, calling for more “slum friendly” cities.

Informal settlements

Local ownership is crucial to making slums more liveable

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by Diana Mitlin
by David Satterthwaite
An event in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, to commemorate the genocide of 1994.

Trauma

Confront the past or lose the future

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by Gesine Ames
by Luca Bootsmann
“People gaze at their screens the whole day.”

Social media

Increasingly manipulated forum

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by Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles
Upset about extrajudicial executions: protester at an anti-Duterte rally in Manila in September 2020.

Authoritarian rule

Fact and fiction

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by Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles
Mumbai slum.

Urban lives

My family succeeded in leaving dismal informal housing

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Community health workers checking people’s temperature in view of Covid-19 threat in a Mumbai slum in October 2020.

Slum-dwellers

India’s commercial hub is a city of migrants

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Obstetric fistula

Marginalised for reasons of health

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by Mireille Kanyange
Military police patrolling a Rio favela.

Urban life

Rio’s poor have reason to fear the police

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by Thuany Rodrigues