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A pedestrian walkway in Kingstow, the capital of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
... leaving the east of St Vincent to the Garifuna, a mix of South American Caribs and escaped or shipwrecked West African ... in the Grenadines, the stunning chain of islands that run south of mainland towards Grenada . The most popular beach in ... levels a particular concern. The islands lie far enough south to be usually missed by major hurricanes moving through ...
Photo: Siobhan Bradshaw
... hours singing and scatting together, mixing elements of South Asian melodies and African grooves with Cuban ...
... fight for fairer wages and public services. In the Global South, newly independent governments were throwing off ... of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. In the Global South, it was often done through coups and other violent ... in Washington DC. In Latin America and much of sub-Saharan Africa, the quantity of food that could be purchased with an ...
Women sift stones for building material at the abandoned slagheap of the Chinese-owned Luanshya Copper Mine, in Kitwe, Zambia. ​​​​​​​Credit: Joerg Boethling/Alamy 
... Zambia’s government is just one of many in the Global South facing crisis as the cost of servicing debts rockets. ... strengthening, while capital is draining out of the Global South, attracted by rising interest rates in wealthy nations. ... what is now Zambia was invaded by the British South Africa Company . The company used the region as a source of ...
Mural by Dan Manrique Arias
... to occupied Palestinians, from the Shack Dwellers in South Africa to the Diggers in the UK, Rojava to Cooperation ...
Image description: An illustration of a man in a therapist's office, peering out of a window and gazing at the surrounding nature. Illustration by Andy Carter
... of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been exported to the Global South since its inception, but the WHO’s Global Mental ... radical overhaul would need to extend well beyond Asia and Africa and into the Global North where the scientific model ...
A council of citizens and state officials deliberate over Algeria's just transition away from extractive industries. Crowds of people and workers celebrate watching over the economic and social changes taking place, including low-intensive agriculture and solar panel implementation in the background.
... reality of climate breakdown is already visible in North Africa and the Arab region, undermining the ecological and ... debts to be definitely (re)paid to countries in the Global South by the rich North. This must take the form not of loans ... and damage, which is occurring disproportionately in the South. But, as inequalities exist not only between North and ...
... schools around sex is common in both the Global North and South – a majority of teenagers reported receiving ... repair and vaginal tightness in both the Global North and South. Such procedures fail to recognize that the breaking of ... Comprehensive Sexuality Education programme in South Africa, which achieved significant progress in reducing HIV ...
The black rocks of Pungo Andongo in the north of Angola
... Angola’s earth, as in so much of Sub-Saharan Africa, is red. The dust that lifts in the wind during ... has. It is now the third largest economy in southern Africa, with much of its new infrastructure built by the ... a decisive influence from European, Latin American and South American trends. RELIGION: Roman Catholic 56.4%, ...
Hindu women offer prayers to the sun god by venturing into the foam-coated waters of the Yamuna River (a major tributary of the Ganges) in New Delhi, India. The river is responsible for 70 per cent of the city’s water supply but is severely polluted at this stretch. Recently city authorities have taken to deploying blowers to push back the foam from the banks during festivals, so that the faithful can take a holy dip. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
... hydropower projects continue to be proposed for the Global South. Collecting sand from the Ubangi River, Central African ... world, by a further five. I speak with Siziwe Mota, the Africa Program director of International Rivers, an NGO that ... the chequered history of the scheme, starting with South Africa’s agreement with DRC to purchase the generated ...
... that assumes it can act with impunity in the Global South. As the people of Peru suffered the highest per-capita ...

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