Twenty years ago, they lost family members to malaria. Today, Senegal’s villagers are at the forefront of the fight against this pandemic, which currently kills more people than AIDS in Africa.

Being a girl in Ethiopia is a full-time job: carting water, cooking, cleaning, collecting firewood and looking after younger siblings. As a result, many girls are not able to play or to enjoy their childhood, and see their education, self-worth and future prospects seriously [...]

“When we told our husbands and our in-laws that we wanted to manage some of the land, they laughed at us. But now we earn more than they do, and they look at us quite differently.”

Despite the roadmap to eradicate child labour by 2022, published by the Indonesian government in 2015, the presence of minors in the country’s factories and plantations continues to be an everyday reality. Pending concrete measures, the development and the lives of thousands of children remain under [...]

“We want the poor to have access to the city, the amenities it offers and to be incorporated into the urban fabric as welcome citizens.”

There are an estimated 1.1 billion people worldwide who cannot officially prove their identity. Almost half – some 500 million people – can be found in sub-Saharan Africa.