Children as young as five make up most of Madagascar’s mica mining workforce
2019-11-22
Investigation finds thousands of children are scavenging in deadly conditions for mineral widely used by car and electronics firms |
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Trio wins economics Nobel for fighting poverty
2019-10-15
French-American Duflo becomes only the second female economics winner in the prize's 50-year history
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Polish teachers strike shines light on country's divisions
2019-04-23
Teachers from across Poland have gathered in Warsaw to demand higher wages in a long-running dispute that is emerging as another fissure in a deeply divided society |
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Fearing death, runaway Saudi sisters appeal for world's help
2019-04-17
The women, in their 20s, said they had arrived in the Georgia and needed help from the international community to find a new country to call home |
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Georgia elects Salome Zurabishvili as first woman president
2018-11-29
With nearly all votes counted, the French-born ex-diplomat had 59% of the vote with rival Grigol Vashadze on 40% |
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Amnesty International strips Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi of 'conscience' award over Rohingya crisis
2018-11-13
Amnesty International has withdrawn its most prestigious human rights prize from Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing the Myanmar leader of perpetuating human rights abuses... |
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Global hunger increasing, UN warns
2018-09-11
The number of people suffering from hunger has increased during the past three years, after years of decline, a UN report suggests |
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Save the Children report says 1.2bn children at risk
2018-05-31
The charity's second End of Childhood index says more than 1.2 billion children face these threats, with 153 million facing all three |
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Nearly two-thirds of global workforce in the ‘informal’ economy
2018-05-02
More than 61 per cent of the world’s employed population – two billion people – earn their livelihoods in the informal sector, the United Nations labour agency said |
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