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Video: Reframing Rio+20
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Sex education in Brazil's favelas
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Polio eradication at risk, warns report
20 Jun 2012: Taliban ban on vaccination contributes to worsening situation as millions of children miss out due to geopolitics and lack of funds
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Family planning and development
How has family planning – such a taboo topic – become a global priority? We want your views ahead of this month's podcast and next month's global summit
Counting the cost of family planning
As the London family planning summit looms closer, the debate begins over how much money is needed, what it should pay for and whether the fundamentally important issues of women's reproductive rights will be addressed
Rio+20: protecting the environment is not enough
Antonio Patriota: A three-dimensional approach to development is now needed – one that combines social, economic and environmental concerns
Sahel crisis funding tops agenda as European commission convenes
Duncan Green: With west Africa's food crisis worsening, high-level delegates in Brussels will look at the aid shortfall and need to build resilience
A litmus test for the new Burma
Zarganar: As Aung San Suu Kyi is allowed to go to the UK ethnic violence threatens to undermine my country's transition to democracy
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ICC's new chief prosecutor must resolve standoff with Libya and bring relations with Africa back from breaking point
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but the revolutionary spirit of Sirkis lives on to attack complacency at the Rio Earth summit
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Some members of Egypt's first freely elected parliament are pressing to scrap laws that protect women
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Ifad's Kanayo Nwanze wants Rio+20 to put smallholder farmers at the centre of the agriculture debate
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A cable linking west Africa to Europe will not only make it less frustrating to use the internet but will help achieve millennium development goals on education, health and the environment
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