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Begging in Freetown.

Lack of social safety net

From valuable to vulnerable

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by Fidelis Adele
Programmes to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS can also be used for the prevention of teenage pregnancies: project in Accra, Ghana.

Teenage pregnancy

Right to childhood

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by Barbara Mayrhofer
Illegal electricity connections in Morocco.

Infrastructure

“The future of the world will be urban”

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
In rural areas, justice is administered according to tradition: a village chief in Cameroon.

Legal and judicial systems

Lawyers for the poor

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by Lothar Jahn
Global reach: Amnesty International activists demonstrated against Egyptian security-force violence in Seoul in September.

Civil society

Global reach

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by Helene Wolf
Latin America shows good scores on the Global AgeWatch Index – and Chile scores best: Family of Mapuche Indians.

Social policy

First Global AgeWatch Index

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by Michael Bünte
China’s New Rural Pension Scheme reaches 133 million people over the age of 60: elderly Chinese men.

Demographics

Pensions for all elderly people

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by Charles Knox-Vydmanov
A great-grandmother with her great-grandchild in Thailand.

Urgent issue

Fundamental principle

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by Hans Dembowski
By the end of 2012, about 30 % of South Africans were dependent on some kind of social grant: old man in Langa township, Cape Town.

Social protection

The South African social contract

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by Henning Melber
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