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Music class in a school run on behalf of UNICEF in a refugee camp.

Refugees

Education crisis

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
Health education must start early.

School health

Healthy children

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by Caroline Sölle de Hilari
The developing world’s rising middle classes do not show much concern for the poor so far: street vendor in Nairobi.

EADI

Sharing global responsibility

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by Jürgen Wiemann
All hopes rest on a son.

Repression

Government control of fertility

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by Astrid Lipinsky
Today, indignous women in the Andes are no longer at risk of forced sterilisation.

Human-rights violations

Forcibly sterilised

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by Helena-Ulrike Marambio
Ultrasound exami­nation of a pregnant woman in Jamshedpur, India.

Gender relations

Aborted girls, trafficked women

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by Nilanjana Ray
DSW

Empowering women

Rights-based family planning

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by Renate Bähr
President Jim Yong Kim wants to reform the World Bank.

World Bank

Reforming root and branch

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by Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven
by Martin Kipping
Sceptics wonder whether aid is helping at all: Haitians lining up for drinking water after the earth quake in 2010.

Beyond aid

Regaining solidarity

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
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