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Asia
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An Unequal World

Throughout history, there has always been concern about inequality growing to such an extent that it will become dangerous and imperil social cohesion and stability. When French revolutionaries took the Bastille and began their...
by Michel Scholer
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WATCH: Income distribution in the UK

The income gap between rich and poor in the UK has been growing over the past 30 years. Today British inequality has reached its highest levels seen since World War II. Despite this, British people are unaware of how serious i...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Latin America

WATCH: How a skyscraper became the world’s tallest slum

Centro Financiero Confinanzas, widely know as Torre de David (Tower of David) is the worlds tallest slum. This unfinished skyscraper, in Venezuela’s capital city Caracas, has become a monument to the failed system when c...
by Nicky Armstrong
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Will The Upcoming Elections Save Greece?

The road to stability, for Greece, has been difficult. After Greece joined the European Union in 1981, it experienced an unprecedented period of stability. For the next thirty years, Greece had secure political systems in place...
by Sylvia Bouloutas
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Bolivia

Bolivia’s New Child Labor Law: A Violation of Human Rights

Child labor is a dangerous, exploitative practice constituting a violation of human rights, which many nations have tried to eradicate. Yet Bolivia—a country that has more than 500,000 children working to supplement the famil...
by Nora Turriago
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Asia

WATCH: Pagpag – Meal of the Day

Each evening we sit down for a meal. We rarely think about where our food comes from, how much it costs us or what we will do with our leftovers. As part of the Your WorldView Thought for Food season, independent filmmakers an...
by Nicky Armstrong
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Development
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Hunger: Poverty Is The Problem Not Production

The whole world is consuming more calories than it did forty years ago. The world population is growing at a rate of 200,000 people a day. These people must be fed. How can this be done? Food producers argue that, in order to f...
by Joe Corry-Roake
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Africa
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Somalia And Somaliland: Now Or Never?

In January this year, Somaliland and Somalia signed the Istanbul Communiqué committing themselves to mutual cooperation and peaceful resolution of their relationship, which has been on the rocks ever since Somaliland proclaime...
by Jonas Jelinek
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Asia

Myanmar’s Poor, Young Glue Sniffers

Inhalant abuse through the use of cheap glue is a worsening problem among poor children in Myanmar. Yin Yin Hnoung, a medical student from the University of Medicine in Mandalay, interviewed some of these children and analysed...
by Chan Myae Khine
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