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Algorithms serve corporate interests: head office of Twitter in San Francisco.

World information order

Hold those who lie online responsible

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by Hans Dembowski
by Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
A Sudanese woman in a makeshift refugee camp in Chad’s desert.

Women in conflict

Men must be held accountable

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
Informal waste pickers at work in the Dandora dumpsite. Nairobi’s waste management still depends heavily on them.

Megacity

How Nairobi fights its waste

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by Alba Nakuwa
Campaigning against female genital mutilation in Liberia.

Women’s rights

Men must play their part in women’s empowerment

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by Mariame Racine Sow
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
The toughest new EU rules apply to online giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google.

European law

DSA is an EU effort to manage systemic online risks

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by Hans Dembowski
Vacation on a plastic beach: trash washed up on Bali.

Transformative agenda

115 plastic cups in the belly of a whale

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by Burkhard Hinz
South African health-care workers demonstrating in Johannesburg in March for better pay.

Brain drain in Africa

Brain drain in Africa’s health-care sector

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by Samir Abi
A woman collecting usable items on a landfill on the outskirts of Mexico City in 2016.

Garbage

How Mexican landfills become ganglands

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by Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz
Girls in a school yard in Nigeria.

Poverty reduction

Overview education

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by D+C / E+Z
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