Great week for …
Jockin Arputham, a Mumbai slum resident and founder of India’s Nationwide Slum Dwellers Association, who has won a $ one.25 million Skoll award for social entrepreneurship.
Daniel Njuguna and James Kiarie, Kenyan assist employees who have been discovered in Somalia following becoming kidnapped in 2011.
Negative week for …
ten ladies who were advised to leave a Mumbai housing estate because they are daughters of intercourse staff.
Xu Zhiyong, a Chinese transparency campaigner, who had had his 4-year jail sentence upheld.
What you are saying
Planet Earth Institute held a discussion on The data revolution: what it signifies for scientific improvement in Africa, which prompted debate under the hashtag #africadata.
The week in numbers
185 million people close to the globe are contaminated with the hepatitis C virus, according to new WHO guidelines.
21,000 displaced people in South Sudan are living in squalor according to MSF, who accused the UN of a “shocking show of indifference”.
1 in 5 Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon is impacted by bodily, sensory or intellectual impairment, says Handicap Global in a new report.
$ 134.8bn is the quantity of advancement support given in 2013 – an all-time substantial – according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Improvement (OECD).
$ 7 bn is donated each yr by Africa’s leading 10 philanthropists.
58 million folks are at threat of hunger in Myanmar’s central dry area.
500,000 NGOs have registered in China above the previous 25 years.
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Milestones
The Supreme Court of the Philippines passed a law on contraception that has been debated in the 80% Roman Catholic country for 13 years.
It is 20 years because the International Conference on Population and Advancement in Cairo. The UN Population Fund has drawn up a record of 20 global demographic adjustments considering that then.
Reading checklist
Coming up coming week: have your say
- Our live on the internet chat on Thursday 17 April is on engaging men and boys in the rights of ladies and women.
- Make contact with us at globaldevpros@theguardian.com to suggest someone to join the specialist panel.
Planet in a week: Mumbai slum resident wins million dollar prize
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