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Jamal Salman receives treatment at Al-Wafa Rehabilitation Centre in Gaza. He was injured during an Israeli drone strike which killed his wife and brother-in-law. The father of two small children, he is now paraplegic and has limited use of one of his arms.Anne Paq/Activestills

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.

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Mariam, Rana Plaza survivor, shares a joke with her sister in Dhaka last June.Suvra Kanti Das

Out of the ruins of the Rana Plaza

Photographer Suvra Kanti Das meets survivors of the garment factory collapse in Dhaka.

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Qui and Phong see their homeland at last.Photo: Phillip Martin

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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Security operatives under suspicion

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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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Girl-friendly: new toilet facilities at the Ga’an Libah school in Somaliland.NGO Africa Educational Trust

Europe points the finger of blame

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

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A formidable force. Militants patrolling the creeks of the Niger Delta region. George Esiri / Reuters

Article title	From magazine	Publication date
From hero to zero	Time to rethink disability	November, 2013
Disability - the facts	Time to rethink disability	November, 2013
Why does abuse persist in Romania?	Time to rethink disability	November, 2013
Out of the ruins of the Rana Plaza	Time to rethink disability	November, 2013
Blue Dragon to the rescue	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Daughters are more caring	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Patriarchs flex their muscles	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Keeping Prerna	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Only the best... it has to be a boy	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Missing girls - the facts	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
The girls are back in town	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Girls not allowed	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Security operatives under suspicion	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
How Somalia's coastal communities called time on the pirates	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
A toilet makes a difference	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
Worth their salt	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
Europe points the finger of blame	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
Outgunned	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
Pirate primer	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
In the firing line	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013

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Features

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Maysoon Zayid explores the challenges facing those disabled by war, occupation and prejudice.

The types, causes, prevention and other facts on disability.

Luke Dale-Harris reports on the ongoing battle to improve the rights of disabled people locked away in secretive Romanian institutions.

Photographer Suvra Kanti Das meets survivors of the garment factory collapse in Dhaka.

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.

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

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

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

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

Facts and figures on the missing girls of the world.

How South Korea got back to normal.

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

Diaspora uncles and 'fathers against pirates' were as decisive as the frigates in ending the piracy scourge. Jamal Osman speaks to Hazel Healy.

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

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

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

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

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

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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