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China and Iran: two ways to do family planning.

How ‘abstinence’ is pushing up the abortion rate.

The best books, music & films of 2009 as reviewed by NI.

Every home in Sierra Leone is well stocked with candles, gasoline lanterns and trusty flashlights. These are life essentials in the capital, Freetown, where electricity is intermittent at best.

Brazil has no specific law to deal with internet content.

Includes a murky past.

The average age of the population is increasing – people are living longer. Also, women are having fewer children. But is this greying of nations really a ‘crisis’?

The struggle to eradicate landmines continues

The Nestlé fair trade Kit Kat dilemma.

Transatlantic student boycott forces clothing company to reopen factory

Why tiny Timor Leste is undergoing a baby boom.

Photo-journalist Dean Saffron documents life in a South African squatter camp.

Geert Wilders, the lying Dutchman.

India's brutal treatment of Kashmiri youths is fuelling conflict

A fictionalized account of the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign.