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Hu Yan.
Hu Yan. © Mercy Corps
In China, millions of families from rural towns where subsistence agriculture is the norm drift from city to city in search of industrial jobs and a better life. Due to the Chinese household registration system, however, these moves mean sacrificing all sorts of social services, including health care, pensions, and education. Nonetheless, in today's features, Hu Yan -- the daughter of a migrant laborer-- is able to attend a unique middle school in Beijing that serves only the children of migrant workers.

Unfortunately, no such innovative programs are aiding the people of Iraq, where five years of war has made the humanitarian situation among the worst in the world. That's in news, and in analysis, the president of an international development organization reflects on growing global poverty and the existence of more than 1,000 billionaires in the world.
Red Cross, Crescent and Crystal
Five years after the outbreak of the war in Iraq, the humanitarian situation in most of the country is among the most critical in the world, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a report issued today.
From: International Committee of the Red Cross
Image: Red Cross, Crescent and Crystal
Disagreements between rich and developing countries have come into the open at talks in Japan to lay the groundwork for a new deal on climate change.
From: AFP/Google
The recently published Forbes Billionaire list affirms the growth of global inequality and the inability of international financial institutions to keep up with and forcefully counteract this trend, writes Nancy Birdsall.
From: Center for Global Development
Kjell Havnevik, Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Atakilte Beyene and Prosper Matondi criticise the World Bank's destructive role in African agriculture and food production.
From Pambazuka News

Hu Yan.
Hu Yan's migrant family -- one of the million in China -- lived in 12 different cities before settling in Beijing, where she has finally gotten the opportunity to attend the capital's only middle school for the children of migrant workers.
From: Mercy Corps
Image: Hu Yan. © Mercy Corps
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Small and rapidly melting glacier
Europe's Alps could lose three-quarters of their glaciers to climate change during the coming century, says the World Glacier Monitoring Service.
From: The BBC
Image: Small and rapidly melting glacier


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