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Inside Brazil’s gang-run prisons

6 February 2017

Prisoners running prisons is not a good idea, especially when many of the prisoners are members of drug gangs

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The end of Zika?
25 November 2016
Zika is no longer a global health emergency says the WHO, but many experts disagree
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If evicting people was an Olympic event, Brazil would win gold
2 August 2016
Is it right to evict people from their homes just so you can host a sporting event?

After 60 years of Zika in Asia, why worry?
16 February 2016 News
Finding Zika
14 February 2016 Maps and Graphics
Should Europe follow Brazil’s example on humanitarian visas?
29 October 2015 News

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Climate change may drown cities
24 October 2008
People in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, prefer to commute in three-wheeled autorickshaws, taxis and buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG), in their...
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Climate change's threat to water needs more study
21 October 2008
Models to predict the impact of climate change on potable water and the management of wastewater are needed to deal with the expected increase in...
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"Hot topic" - special journal issue on climate and migration reviewed
29 September 2008
The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article...
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Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food
23 September 2008
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when...
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Food wasted is water lost
29 August 2008
To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria,...
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Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
21 August 2008
One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often. What is a tropical cyclone? A...

What we are doing about climate change
5 August 2008 News
Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse
4 August 2008 News
What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series
31 July 2008 News
How climate change works
29 July 2008 News
Calls to reduce taxes and controls on food aid
28 July 2008 News
A dollar more for climate change adaptation, a dollar less for health
9 July 2008 News

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