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Trash economics: surviving Venezuela’s downfall

16 August 2017

Beyond the political protests, Caracas has become a city marked by dysfunction, crime, and extreme poverty

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Venezuelan voices: The real-life stories beyond the protests
19 May 2017
Getting out on the streets to protest is a luxury many Venezuelans can’t afford right now
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The weekly humanitarian outlook
17 February 2017
Every week, IRIN’s team of editors takes a look at what lies ahead on the humanitarian agenda and curates a selection of some of the...

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Fleeing a broken Venezuela
9 January 2017 Feature
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Inside Venezuela's hidden healthcare crisis
4 January 2017 Video
Ten humanitarian stories to look out for in 2017
2 January 2017 Analysis

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Venezuelans forced to live off scraps, but aid shut out
22 November 2016
The government of Venezuela is still in denial about the country’s humanitarian crisis – this makes it hard to help its desperate people
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Venezuela’s never-ending downward spiral
28 June 2016
Venezuela’s oil-reliant economy has been in freefall for two years. It now faces a deepening humanitarian disaster and is refusing outside help.
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Economic crisis hits young mothers in Venezuela
5 April 2016
Pregnant woman and young mothers are among those hardest hit by Venezuela's economic crisis which has cut off state funding to the health sector and...
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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...

Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food
23 September 2008 News
Food wasted is water lost
29 August 2008 News
Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
21 August 2008 News
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

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