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'Everybody preferred children'
Combating child prostitution in Brazil is more urgent than ever – especially with the expected influx of foreign tourists for the 2014 World Cup, writes Olivia Crellin.
Is this the end of the road for universal human rights?
Stephen Hopgood thinks so. He explains why.
A prisoner in the house
For hundreds of South Asian women each year, an arranged marriage in Britain leads not to love but to slavery. Samira Shackle reports.
In our own words
Citizen journalists Sheku Feika and Anoop Kumar tell the remarkable tales of three disabled young people from Sierra Leone and India.
Nobody is 'normal'
Jody Mcintyre speaks to comedian Francesca Martinez about growing up 'wobbly' and resisting austerity in Britain.
From hero to zero
Maysoon Zayid explores the challenges facing those disabled by war, occupation and prejudice.
Disability - the facts
The types, causes, prevention and other facts on disability.
Why does abuse persist in Romania?
Luke Dale-Harris reports on the ongoing battle to improve the rights of disabled people locked away in secretive Romanian institutions.
Out of the ruins of the Rana Plaza
Photographer Suvra Kanti Das meets survivors of the garment factory collapse in Dhaka.
Blue Dragon to the rescue
Girls are being trafficked from Vietnam into China and forced to work in brothels or sold into marriage. A tiny number get away, or are rescued by activists from Blue Dragon. Phillip Martin reports.
Daughters are more caring
Is the tide turning in China? Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore reports on how young couples are thinking about babies.
Patriarchs flex their muscles
Onnik Krikorian on the anti-abortion repsonse to Georgia's skewed sex-ratios.
Keeping Prerna
Daily wage-earner Kajri is defying her husband to save her daughter. She confided in Ankita Balloh.
Only the best... it has to be a boy
Rajashri Dasgupta explodes a few myths about educated middle-class women in India.
Missing girls - the facts
Facts and figures on the missing girls of the world.
The girls are back in town
How South Korea got back to normal.
Girls not allowed
Vanessa Baird examines what sex selection is doing to women – and the world.
How Somalia's coastal communities called time on the pirates
Diaspora uncles and 'fathers against pirates' were as decisive as the frigates in ending the piracy scourge. Jamal Osman speaks to Hazel Healy.
A toilet makes a difference
Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.
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