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Harjit Sajjan is Canada’s minister of defence.

Building bridges

Why diaspora communities are powerful development actors

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by Richa Arora
Inequality results from the current economic order, warns Oxfam: worker in Bangladeshi garment factory.

Oxfam

Fundamental change needed to overcome inequality

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Peter Thiel, the Silicon-Valley billionaire, visiting Donald Trump in New York in late 2016.

Special interests

The public good must not be left to powerful billionaires

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by Michael Steffen
by Hans Dembowski
The success of Kamala Harris, the first female, Black and South Asian vice president of the USA, is appreciated by women in Painganadu, the Tamil Nadu village her grandfather came from.

Migration

India’s diaspora is influential, though few members vote

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by Roli Mahajan
Destitute woman sorting plastic waste on a Karachi street.

Health hazards

In Pakistan, toxins put the poor particularly at risk

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by Imran Mukhtar
Dyeing processes typically involve over 1,600 different chemicals: drying textiles at a factory in Bangladesh.

Serious health hazards

Consumers need better information concerning toxic chemicals

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by Olga Speranskaya

Cobalt mining

Battery-powered growth

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by Derrick Silimina

Informal vendors

A battle for the streets

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Building boom in Istanbul.

Urban development

Why real-estate prices are rising fast in Istanbul

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by Sarah C. Schreiner
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