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To help your students understand the global hunger crisis, Oxfam Australia has created a presentation based on our work in South Sudan, the Lake Chad Basin, the
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Kids are missing school to try and find food, putting a whole generation at risk.
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Human wellbeing
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Johnny Miller has caused quite a stir with his aerial images of South Africa’s divided communities. He explains the origins of the Unequal Scenes project
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Kenya, the largest economy in East Africa, has some of the starkest inequality in the region. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Nairobi, where the wealthy and middle class live and work next to slums housing some of the country's poorest. American photographer Johnny Miller, supported by Code for Africa and the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Slumscapes project, ha
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Liter of Light is a remarkable initiative focused on improving the quality of life of people living in disadvantaged areas around the world. The project teaches people in these communities how to use recycled and locally sourced materials to light their homes, businesses and streets.
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Parliament adopts amendment that declares country’s abundant clean supplies are ‘a public good managed by the state’ and ‘not a market commodity’
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About 60 percent of Nairobi's population lives in slums. A beautification project by the Kenyan government was supposed to change that. It was a good idea
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The World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), warns that natural disasters are a greater impediment to ending global poverty than previously understood.
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New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why?
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A Good job, a nice house, a clean environment. Europe’s best countries offer this recipe for a sense of well-being
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The work of UNICEF to improve human wellbeing
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Niger is last among 187 countries in the UN’s education index, but getting girls into school affects many other areas of development. What can be done?
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The World Food Programme is getting more creative with relief efforts.
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The shortcomings of GDP, as a measure of what we want from an economy, are not a new discovery. But what are the alternatives?
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A flat pack refugee shelter has been named the Beazley Design of the Year 2017 in the Design Museum’s annual awards. Created by social enterprise Better Shelter, the small, temporary structure has a lockable door and solar powered wall, which provides enough energy to power the supplied light or to charge a phone.
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Some 400 million people in Asia live on less than $1.90 a day despite the region's impressive economic growth.
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It is an essential part of most mobile gadgets sold around the world and demand for cobalt is soaring. But the process of extracting the mineral from the earth comes at a huge human cost. A Sky News investigation has found children as young as four working in dangerous and squalid conditions in Cobalt mines …
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In September 2015, the United Nations are launching global goals, a series of ambitious targets to end extreme poverty and tackle climate change for everyone by 2030. To realise these Goals everyone, however young they are, needs to take part.
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Australia is a place that prides itself on the fair go. And yet, all is clearly not well.
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A great article to begin an examination of human wellbeing in Australia
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Stunting, death and malnutrition: why contaminated water has far more serious effects than the odd bout of diarrhoea
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This is an introduction to Our World in Data – the web publication that shows how global living conditions are changing.
––– A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden 10% thought things are gett
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