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A young boy collects water from an Oxfam installed water point in Mugunga camp in Goma, eastern DRC, after tens of thousands of people fled an escalation in fighting. Oxfam teams set up water and sanitation systems in the camps within days. (Photo by Kate Holt / Oxfam East Africa)

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How global warming will change your life

A new report confirms that the first decade of the 21st century was the warmest since meteorological records began around 1850; nine of the years between 2001 and 2010 were among the ten warmest ever recorded.

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Venture philanthropy and the quest for aid effectiveness

Philanthropists are increasingly shaping the development landscape but what drives them and how healthy is the focus on getting ‘bang for their bucks’?

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Guardian

Syria: ‘Aid money is going out as fast as it is coming in’

With public appeals unmet and the threat of disease as temperatures rise, where’s the urgency over the humanitarian crisis in Syria?

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Nowhere people: The refugees of Syria

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Light Box (TIME)

Students invent a soap to tackle malaria

An award-winning innovation by two students in Burkina Faso could help reduce the devastating impact of malaria, which is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes.

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CNN

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Where malaria still kills

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The classrooms are full – but the students can’t read

Many Pacific Island nations are celebrating the success of rising school enrollment rates, but a closer look inside the classroom, and in communities surrounding these schools, reveals a shockingly low literacy rate.

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Inter Press Service

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

West demands more progress from Afghanistan in return for aid

Afghanistan has been promised around $8 billion a year in military and development spending after foreign troops leave in 2014. But NATO governments say the aid money comes with strings attached.

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Guardian

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A look ahead to the future of Afghanistan

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NPR

Global human rights philanthropy topped $1.2 billion in 2010

According to new research, more than 12,000 human rights grants supported more than 6,800 organizations worldwide. The 703 funders represent 29 countries across seven major world regions.

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Philanthropy Journal

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rights groups decry Egyptian media crackdown

Egyptian authorities shut down four Islamist TV stations, banned the Muslim Brotherhood‘s newspaper and raided the office of Al-Jazeera’s Egypt affiliate in crackdown on media considered sympathetic to ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Egypt: $1.5 billion in US aid is on the line

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Palestinian children work Israeli settlements

The number of Palestinians working inside Jordan Valley settlements varies between 10,000 and 20,000 depending on the season, children make up between five and ten percent of these workers while only making up to 25 percent of the wage they are entitled to.

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Al Jazeera

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Reasons why President Obama wants to expand trade with Africa

When Western officials have historically visited Africa, the major themes have been things like fighting poverty. So it was a departure for President Obama to focus on investment and trade instead.

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The Atlantic

Hope for a breakthrough at Bali trade talks summit at year-end

Agricultural liberalization talks have a high chance of success, a senior Indonesian official said in reference to the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali.

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The Nation

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Complicated registration ‘designed’ to prevent Zimbabweans from voting

At most voter registration centers in Zimbabwe there are long queues, and the process to register is tedious. Most civil society organizations believe this is a deliberate attempt to stop registration.

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Inter Press Service

Poverty maps from 1980 look very different compared to 2010

Poverty in the U.S. doesn’t look like it did just a few decades ago. The demographics have changed too, with new and expanding communities of the Hispanic poor.

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GOOD NEWS

South African student builds flush loos for her family

Degrading and dirty bucket toilets set in the street were a way of life for 21-year-old Candice Sehoma until she decided to take the initiative and improve the situation for her whole community.

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IOL

India: a twist in the tale

Storytelling is not just for entertaining children. It can be used to teach and train adults. Efforts made by government, NGOs and private players in India have helped revive and transform the art.

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The Hindu

NONPROFITS AND NGOS

Ikea brings flatpack innovation to emergency refugee shelters

Swedish furniture giant Ikea has teamed up with the U.N. Refugee Agency to develop a longer-lasting flatpack shelter.

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Guardian

In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, increased mining activities raise pollution fears

Rising water use by industry, deformed livestock births, exacerbate traditional pastoralists’ mistrust of the government.

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Earth Island Journl

ENVIRONMENT

The fertilized world

If we don’t watch out, agriculture could destroy our planet. Here’s how to grow all the food we need with fewer chemicals.

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National Geographic

‘The real threat to our future is peak water’

Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to our future is peak water. There are substitutes for oil, but not for water.

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Guardian

Special section:

Water: a special issue

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National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China’s agricultural boom creates tension between food security, environment

China now feeds 22 percent of the world’s population on just 9 percent of its total arable land, largely due to investments in research, technology and government assistance.

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Farm Futures

Solar energy: African economies’ secret weapon

In recent years, the continent has become a haven for renewable energy, spearheaded by small, tech savvy companies keen on capitalizing off of the global south’s hunger for energy.

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Colorful and crowded Indian public transport in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. (Photo by Nagarjun Kandukuru)

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