Browsing issue: Sustainable development

Including results for: Environment, Poverty, Education, Food & health & development, Housing, Shelter, Water, Sanitation

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Crisis looms in drought-stricken Niger

In Niger, there are too many mouths to feed, and not enough productive land. The country already struggles with extreme poverty but now Niger is being hard hit by climate change.

Niger

Environment, Food & health & development, Water

Witnessed: 124 times

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Schoolgirls attacked with acid in Afghanistan

A group of girls determined to receive an education have been scarred for life in southern Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Armed conflict, Education, Violence against women

Witnessed: 179 times

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Lyari: Highway of Tears

The Lyari Highway is currently being built in Pakistan as a solution to the congestion problem in Karachi....

Pakistan

Housing

Witnessed: 96 times

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Ecuador: The New Law of the Jungle

Pulitzer Center's Kelly Hearn is in Ecuador covering what has been dubbed Ecuador's Rainforest Chernobyl and it could turn out to be one of the biggest legal environmental battles ever fought....

Bolivia

Environment, Indigenous peoples, Labor

Witnessed: 297 times

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Bolivia's Coca Culture

The coca plant, used in indigenous cultural rituals and traditional medicines, is also the main ingredient for cocaine....

Bolivia

Drugs & human rights, Indigenous peoples, Poverty

Witnessed: 283 times

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Price of Rice

The price of rice has doubled in the past year in Asia giving rise to what some have coined "the Asian Food Crisis." A grassroots NGO in Vietnam is responding, by propagating sustainable agricultural ...

Vietnam

Environment, Food & health & development, Sustainable development

Witnessed: 206 times

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Cholera plagues Afghanistan

As if living in a country at war was not bad enough, the people of Afghanistan are battling a new outbreak of cholera.

Afghanistan

Food & health & development, Humanitarian, Poverty

Witnessed: 159 times

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Attacks imperil girls' education in Swat Valley

The Pakistani government says that more than 120 girls' schools have been burned down or attacked in the Swat Valley region.

Pakistan

Crimes against humanity, Education, Violence against women

Witnessed: 138 times

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