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Maha Alasil

For the half a million Syrians who have fled to Jordan, the struggle to survive is far from over. Nigel Wilson meets an ordinary woman making an extraordinary effort to help those in need.

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

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.

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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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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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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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There’s always money for war

In good economic times and bad, there’s always money for war. A view from America by Mark Engler.

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Missing girls - the facts

Facts and figures on the missing girls of the world.

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Country profile: Zimbabwe

‘Welcome to Zimbabwe (Land of contradiction)’

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Sectarian divide: Buddhist monks walk through a devastated Muslim area in Meiktila. Photo: Brennan O’Connor

Keeping the peace

Religious persecution of Muslims in Burma has resulted in bloodshed and displaced entire communities. But grassroots initiatives have also emerged to counter the hatred. Report and photographs by Brennan O’Connor.

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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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Yasuní in peril

Hazel Healy October, 2013 466 Buy
Rise of the killer robots

Nathalie Olah October, 2013 466 Buy
Maha Alasil

For the half a million Syrians who have fled to Jordan, the struggle to survive is far from over. Nigel Wilson meets an ordinary woman making an extraordinary effort to help those in need.

Nigel Wilson October, 2013 466 Buy
Big Bad World - Growth

Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

P J Polyp October, 2013 466 Buy
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.

Phillip Martin October, 2013 466 Buy
Daughters are more caring

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

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore October, 2013 466 Buy
Patriarchs flex their muscles

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

Onnik Krikorian October, 2013 466 Buy
Keeping Prerna

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

Ankita Balloh October, 2013 466 Buy
Only the best... it has to be a boy

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

Rajashri Dasgupta October, 2013 466 Buy
There’s always money for war

In good economic times and bad, there’s always money for war. A view from America by Mark Engler.

Mark Engler October, 2013 466 Buy
Missing girls - the facts

Facts and figures on the missing girls of the world.

October, 2013 466 Buy
The girls are back in town

How South Korea got back to normal.

Vanessa Baird October, 2013 466 Buy
Country profile: Zimbabwe

‘Welcome to Zimbabwe (Land of contradiction)’

Nhau Mangirazi October, 2013 466 Buy
Keeping the peace

Religious persecution of Muslims in Burma has resulted in bloodshed and displaced entire communities. But grassroots initiatives have also emerged to counter the hatred. Report and photographs by Brennan O’Connor.

Brennan O’Connor October, 2013 466 Buy
Girls not allowed

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

Vanessa Baird October, 2013 466 Buy