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Rising poverty has pushed more Malagasy women into sex work

Madagascar: Sex for Survival

In less than 20 years, the number of registered sex workers in Madagascar’s main port city of Toamasina has climbed from 17,000 in 1993 to 29,000 in 2012 due to rising poverty and the city’s proximity to the recently opened Ambatovy nickel mine.

World

Mupira Baziralo was a combatant for the Mai-Mai Kifua-Fua for seven years

World: Armed Groups Should Not Be A Law Unto Themselves*

The vast majority of the world’s conflicts involve not just government troops but also armed groups, which act without state sanction or control – and while some wear their complete disrespect for the laws of war as a badge of honour.

Politics

Part of a weapons haul collected in the past couple of months as part of the DDRRR process in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Arms Trade Treaty Failure Not All Doom And Gloom?

The failure of a proposed treaty to regulate the multi-billion dollar global conventional weapons trade does not mean disaster, according to some campaigners looking to develop effective international arms controls.