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Child labour

No more children in the tea estates

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
A village in the Xe Sap National Park in Laos.

Laos/Vietnam

Forests are the world’s green lungs

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by Michael Ruffert
Transport options matter in a pandemic: traffic in Lomé, Togo’s capital, in December 2020.

Togo

Solidarity helps to escape pandemic

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by Samir Abi

Knowledge building

Training local artisans to produce school furniture

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by Derrick Silimina
Gond women showing the ink marks that indicate they took part in the state elections in Madhya Pradesh in late 2018.

India’s Adivasis

Over 100 million people belong to India’s scheduled tribes

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
Paramilitary troops on patrol in Chhattisgarh after a gun fight with leftist extremists.

Governance

How central Indian forests become sites of conflict

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
Healer procuring supplies for traditional medicinal use at a local market in the Nigerian city of Akure in August 2019.

Traditional medicine

Why many Africans must rely on informal health care

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by Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu
Father and daughter picking waste in Islamabad.

Pakistan

Some poor people depend on garbage scavenging in Islamabad

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by Imran Mukhtar
Women are unequal to men in many places.

Gender equality

Women are particularly disadvantaged in the informal sector

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by Oliver Schmidt
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