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Smart family-planning policies support women’s rights and empower young people

High fertility correlates with poverty – and compounds it

UNICEF reckons that one third of the world’s schoolchildren did not get formal lessons because of Covid-19

UNEP demands fast climate action to prevent even more extreme weather

A new digital app helps to break the taboo surrounding girls’ menstruation in Pakistan

Where traditional norms prevail, girls’ rights tend to be neglected

The trade in skin-whitening creams is a sign of internalised racist ideas of beauty

Why other world regions must not copy western consumption patterns

Thefts of Covid-19 medical supplies highlight Kenya’s corruption problem

East Africa is living with the looming threat of a second invasion of desert locusts