This young mother in Yunnan province seems happy to have a girl. Photo: Julio Etchart

Daughters are more caring

Is the tide turning in China? Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore reports on how young couples are thinking about babies.

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NI 466 - Where have all the girls gone? - October, 2013
Women in  Tbilisi, out in force to defend liberal values.David Mdzinarishuili/Reuters

Patriarchs flex their muscles

Onnik Krikorian on the anti-abortion repsonse to Georgia's skewed sex-ratios.

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NI 466 - Where have all the girls gone? - October, 2013
A New Delhi construction worker holds her baby close.Desmond Boylan/Reuters

Keeping Prerna

Daily wage-earner Kajri is defying her husband to save her daughter. She confided in Ankita Balloh.

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Only the best... it has to be a boy

Rajashri Dasgupta explodes a few myths about educated middle-class women in India.

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Missing girls - the facts

Facts and figures on the missing girls of the world.

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NI 466 - Where have all the girls gone? - October, 2013
Choosing boys over girls in China and India has already skewed the global average sex ratio at birth to a biologically impossible level. Photo: Pawan Kumar/Reuters

Girls not allowed

Vanessa Baird examines what sex selection is doing to women – and the world.

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NI 466 - Where have all the girls gone? - October, 2013
How Somalia's coastal communities called time on the pirates

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.

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NI 465 - How the war on pirates became big business - September, 2013
Girl-friendly: new toilet facilities at the Ga’an Libah school in Somaliland.NGO Africa Educational Trust

A toilet makes a difference

Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.

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A salt-worker for 56 years, Umar joined SABRAS six years ago and is finally reaping some reward for his hours of toil.Charlotte Anderson

Worth their salt

Matthew Newsome meets a social entrepreneur helping India's salt-workers out of the poverty trap.

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The aftermath: In 2011 Gianluca Casseri, an extreme rightwinger, killed two Senegalese vendors in a Florence market.LaPresse/AP

Europe points the finger of blame

Migrants have become the scapegoats in financially straitened times, reports Amy Hall.

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NI 465 - How the war on pirates became big business - September, 2013
A formidable force. Militants patrolling the creeks of the Niger Delta region.  George Esiri / Reuters

Outgunned

Dayo Aiyetan and Theophilus Abbah offer a West African take on piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Pirate primer

Pirate primer

A guide to buccaneers, corsairs & privateers throughout the ages.

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Pirates’ victims are overwhelmingly seafarers from poor nations. Above, Vietnamese sailor Vu Van Ba is reunited with his parents after 18 months held hostage off the coast of Somalia.Ngyuen Huy Khan/Reuters

In the firing line

Piracy is just one in a long list of problems facing seafarers in a cut-throat shipping industry, reports Olivia Swift.

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Ocean robber or saviour of the sea?Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

A pirate's life for me

Jatin Dua investigates the ever-blurry line between protector and pirate in coastal Somalia.

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NI 465 - How the war on pirates became big business - September, 2013
Pirate patrol: German troops in Djibouti prepare to join Europe’s anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia.  The fight against pirates has been a handy way for countries like Germany and Japan to shrug off postwar constitutional constraints.Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

Empire strikes back - where counter-piracy is going wrong

Pirate hijackings off the coast of Africa have spawned a lucrative protection industry. With private security guards taking to the oceans in ever increasing numbers, Hazel Healy asks whether this is really the way to ‘safer seas’.

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Home no more: the Pandit minority were forced to flee their houses along the Jhelum river in Srinagar more than 20 years ago.Sofi Lundin

In the valley of conflict

Sofi Lundin reports on the story of the Kashmiri Pandits, a minority group driven from their homes in the beautiful but strife-torn Kashmir Valley.

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NI 464 - Debt - a global scam - July, 2013
Rise up! Action and resources on debt ICAN

Rise up! Action and resources on debt

Fired up? Here’s were to get more info and tool up to fight the global debt scam.

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Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
Debt - a global scam July, 2013
Debt - a global scam July, 2013
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