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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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Proportion of informal employment in total employment (2024)

Labour and employment

Facts and figures: the world of work today

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by Isah Shafiq
India’s President Droupadi Murmu.

Head of state

The ambivalent role of India’s president

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by Arun P. Ghosh
Restaurant jobs are sought after among African migrants: a waiter at a café in Dubai.

Labour migration

What it’s like to move from Africa to the Gulf States for work

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by Alba Nakuwa
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Baker with his motorbike.

Informal sector

“On a bad day, my earnings are just enough to pay my boss”

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Mercy Mutemi is one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers.

Content moderation

Sorting out human horror for less than two dollars an hour

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by Alba Nakuwa
Demonstrations against Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), which USAID has fallen victim to.

Development politics

Global voices on ending USAID, part 2

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by D+C / E+Z
In February, people demonstrated in front of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington against the government to support employees who had to vacate their offices.

Development politics

Global voices on ending USAID, part 1

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by D+C / E+Z
A domestic help in India. It is not Reba.

Informal sector

“I just want my son to study well and then live a better life than I do”

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by Roli Mahajan
Many people worldwide work under difficult conditions: women carrying goods on their heads.

Our view

What decent work is all about

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
There are also women and children working in illegal cobalt mines in the DRC. Without cobalt and other raw materials needed for hardware, there would be no AI.

Technology

How AI exploits

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
by Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed