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• World in a week: 600% rise in reports of torture in Mexico

  Guardian Professional, 5 Sep 2014: 1 - 5 September: Catch up with all the development-related news you may have missed this week

• 11 views on improving water supply

  Guardian Professional, 5 Sep 2014: From realising the right to water to the role of the private sector, experts share their views
  

• Funding water projects: are donors flushing good money away?

  Guardian Professional, Poll, 4 Sep 2014:

  On day three of World Water Week, the question of who pays for what floats to the surface

• Concrete solutions to the world’s sanitation problems

  1 Sep 2014: Letters: To improve the lives of 2.5 billion people, we need to do more than just build toilets, we need to make sanitation safe and sustainable

• Toilets opened in Indian village where girls were killed in fields after dark

  1 Sep 2014: Sanitation charity donates 108 toilets to Uttar Pradesh village as part of campaign to protect women and improve health standards

• Lack of toilets puts India's health and rural women's safety at risk

  28 Aug 2014:

  In the village where two girls were gang-raped and hanged earlier this year, toilets may help protect women and health

• Ethiopians' plight: 'The toilets are unhealthy, but we don't have a choice'

  28 Aug 2014:

  Officials plan to build extra public conveniences in Addis Ababa, which has just 63 loos for its 3 million inhabitants

• Lack of toilets blights the lives of 2.5bn people, UN chief warns

  28 Aug 2014: UN deputy secretary general says failure to address sanitation and open defecation threatens disaster for third of humanity

• Can maps and mobiles prevent blindness?

  Guardian Professional, 22 Aug 2014: Trachoma, the leading cause of infectious blindness, affects 21m people. Could mobile mapping help? Alex Pavluck explains

• Could a video game stop the vicious worm?

  Guardian Professional, 13 Aug 2014:

  A tapeworm transmitted from pigs to humans is a leading cause of epilepsy, but researchers say a game can prevent it

• In China, a single plague death means an entire city quarantined

  25 Jul 2014: Tens of thousands of people were trapped in Yumen after officials swiftly locked down the city when a man died of plague. While the crisis has since passed, it highlights China's severe approach to the threat from disease

• What do toilets have to do with nutrition? More than you might think

  Guardian Professional, 24 Jul 2014:

  Increasing the number of toilets and changing behaviour can cut stunting. Lawrence Haddad examines the evidence

• New development goals need ambition – and the UK must set the agenda

  14 Jul 2014: Jim Murphy: Britain has steered groundbreaking deals before. It must do so again, setting radical goals to save as many lives as possible

• Reducing child deaths: the millennium development goal that is slipping away

  7 Jul 2014:

  UN urges final push on global targets that have shown little improvement, notably those related to women and children

• Waterless toilet to set bog standard at Latitude festival

  6 Jul 2014:

  Journalist-turned-innovator Virginia Gardiner has received backing from the Gates Foundation for Loowatt – an invention that generates power from the waste we produce

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