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Gender equality

How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

In a country where queer people face exclusion, formal agriculture offers rare stability. Yet significant risks remain.

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu

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A Sidr survivor recalls the cyclone.

Adapting to climate change

The view from below

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by Hans Dembowski
“We’re not alone.”

Herding

Traditional education

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by Boro Baski
Boro Baski
Domestic worker Erwiana Sulistyaningsih (center) from Indonesia was brutally abused by her Hong Kong employer who is now serving a six-year jail sentence.

Labour migration

What women migrants send home

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by Katja Dombrowski
The Rana Plaza disaster made international headlines.

AWAJ Foundation

New kind of labour movement

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by Marianne Scholte
Picking organic Fairtrade cotton in Burkina Faso.

Commodities

Farmers' self-determination

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by Anup Kumar Singh
Khadija Farhana

Women’s empowerment

Married too young

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by Khadija Farhana
The working conditions of many seamstresses must improve – not only in Bangladesh.

Textile industry

Price does not guarantee fairness

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Work conditions are tough, but improving.

Labour relations

“Enforce the law”

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by Nazma Akter
by Marianne Scholte
Rural women in particular have ­benefited from NGO activism.

Bangladesh

No “basket case”

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by Marianne Scholte
It is better to live in a city: children in Bangalore.

Special needs

Dysfunctional support system

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by Ipsita Sapra