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Bill Gates: Don't expect charities to pick up the bill for Trump's sweeping aid cuts
Head of world’s largest private philanthropic organisation speaks out as report shows progress on reducing extreme poverty is under threat.
150,000 Rohingya children in Bangladesh to be vaccinated amid threat of disease outbreak
A vaccination campaign against measles, rubella and polio is underway to immunize 150,000 Rohingya children below the age of 15 in 68 refugee settlements close to the border with Myanmar.
Britain doesn't have to choose between trade and aid
Post-Brexit Britain can become a great global trading nation without giving up on international aid.
Millions of dollars missing' in school aid for Syrians
Funding gaps prevented 500,000 Syrian children in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey from attending school in 2016, HRW says.
'Alarm bells we cannot ignore': world hunger rising for first time this century
The number of hungry people in the world has increased for the first time since the turn of the century, sparking concern that conflict and climate change could be reversing years of progress.
Violent politics and the disintegration of democracy in Cambodia
The CPP needs a powerful opposition to prevent complete disintegration of democracy and human rights. It’s making sure that is not possible.
Chocolate industry drives rainforest disaster in Ivory Coast
A 'monster that will eat itself', boom demand for cocoa from the world’s chocolate industry is driving deforestation on a devastating scale in West Africa.
Disaster relief agencies under pressure
In a time of 'unprecedented need', aid agencies are stretched ever-thinner in providing essential support to stricken areas.
Hurricane Irma reminds Europe of its awkward colonial rule
In France -- as in Britain and the Netherlands -- Irma has exposed an inconvenient truth. All three nations still govern overseas colonies, over an ocean away from their old imperial masters.
Mexico rushes aid to millions of quake victims; 96 dead
About 2.5 million people are in need of emergency aid and shelter after worst earthquake in 85 years struck Mexico last week.
