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2 Mar 2018 5 minute read

Save the Children whistleblowers speak out

Brie O’Keefe and Alexia Pepper de Caires speak to Ben Phillips about the...

22 Feb 2018 3 minute read

Why make women suffer twice?

Don’t cut Oxfam’s support – we need it to root out abuse, says Colombian feminist Gloria Sanchez.

19 Feb 2018 3 minute read

When disaster strikes, put women in charge

Oxfam’s Haiti sex scandal highlights how girls and young women are most at risk in emergencies. Vanessa Baird...

15 Feb 2018 4 minute read

The trashing of Oxfam

Abuse must be eradicated but the attack on Oxfam is disproportionate, argues Maggie Black in this opinion...

Oxfam scandal no surprise

14 Feb 2018 3 minute read

Why defunding Oxfam won't stop abuse

‘The idea of altruistic morality puts aid workers in a double bind, eroding true responsibility’

1 Jan 2017 7 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming;...

1 May 2016 11 minute read

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Technology as if people mattered*

The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.

1 May 2016 1 minute read

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Mind the technology gap - the facts

Technology can be a big enabler – yet the difference in terms of what’s available to rich and poor is vast.

1 May 2016 8 minute read

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'Because the river told me'

Peasant farmers resisting the violence of agribusiness. By Nils McCune.

1 May 2016 3 minute read

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Male baldness v malaria?

Simon Trace on the skewed priorities of medical research.

1 May 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

Technology, whether low or high, needs to be appropriate and within reach to make a difference.

22 Feb 2016 3 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Why don’t they go and look?

Forget number-crunching; development workers need to get out into the field to understand poverty, writes Maggie Black...

22 Dec 2015 5 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

G7’s ‘New Alliance’ deal is failing farmers in Africa

Aisha Dodwell argues that such schemes only line transnationals’ pockets.

25 Sep 2015 4 minute read

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The UN sustainable development goals miss the point

It’s all about power, argues Nick Dearden.

1 Sep 2015 6 minute read

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Calling time on the MDGs

No development process succeeds without the participation of those it targets, argues Maggie Black.

10 Sep 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

The Western way isn’t always the best way

Development – when forced onto poor countries – is a dangerous concept, argues Amit Singh.

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