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A candlelight gathering after the cremation on Sunday blocked a road in New Delhi, the city where the Dec. 16 rape occurred. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Indian women march: "That girl could have been any one of us" Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati New York Times December 28, 2012 Woman dies after gang rape that galvanized India Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati New York Times December 28, 2012 Dangers on the streets of India, shape lives, stifle dreams of country’s young women Associated Press Washington Post December 20, 2012
Indian schoochildren receive a free midday meal at a government school in Jammau. Photo: Washington Post
India wakes up to child malnutrition ‘shame,’ begins to make progress Simon Denyer Washington Post December 26, 2012 See other health and nutrition stories
Children of China’s ‘Immortals’ are new capitalist elite Bloomberg News Washington Post December 26 2012
Pakistan polio drive suspended after 8 health workers killed by extremists (video) BBC News December 19, 2012 Getting polio campaigns back on track (analysis) Donald G McNeil Jr New York Times December 24, 2012 See other health and nutrition stories
Opposition to labor camps widens in China Andrew Jacobs New York Times December 14, 2012
Five reasons malnutrition still kills in Nepal IRIN News December 14, 2012 See more nutrtition stories
How real are Myanmar's reforms? IRIN News November 19, 2012 See report
A man at the Yamuna River, an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes. Filthy standing water abounds in New Delhi. Photo:Enrico Fabian/New York Times
As dengue fever sweeps India, a slow response stirs experts’ fears Gardiner Harris New York Times November 6, 2012 See more nutrtion and health stories
Billions in hidden riches for family of Chinese leader David Barboza New York Times October 25, 2012
‘Mullah Radio’ believed to be behind attack on Pakistani schoolgirl Dana Priest Washington Post October 17, 2012 Malala Yousafzai: Taliban shooting victim flown to UK BBC News October 15, 2012 Taliban gun down girl who spoke up for rights Declan Walsh New York Times October 9, 2012 View Class Dismissed, a 2009 documentary by Adam B. Ellick that profiled Malala Yousafzai.
Rural India marches on Delhi over landless poor Jason Burke The Guardian October 9, 2012
WFP plans to fortify wheat in Afghanistan to address widespread malnutrition. Photo: Heba Aly/IRIN
Afghanistan: How do you tackle widespread malnutrition in a poor, corrupt country at war? IRIN News October 4, 2012
Cambodia wrestles with justice for ex-members of Khmer Rouge Andrew Higgins Washington Post September 28, 2012
Evicted and unhappy, a protester in Phnom Penh in January 2012 Photo: Phuong Tran/IRIN
Cambodia: Rural poor lose out on land deals IRIN News October 4, 2012 Land disputes in Cambodia focus ire on Chinese investors Andrew Higgins Washington Post September 26, 2012
A child’s height was measured after he was rescued from garment factory labor in New Delhi in June. Labor laws affecting children are often not enforced, due to corruption, one of several ways in which corruption diminishes poor childrens' lives. Photo: Kevin Frayer/Associated Press
How corruption affects the poor children of India Sonia Faleiero New York Times September 15, 2012
10-year-old Meena Devi, right, and her older brother Sunil, 11, outside their hut in Jhanwatola village, Bihar. Photo: Sonia Faleiro for The New York Times
Survival without adult supervision: stark reality in rural Bihar Sonia Faleiero New York Times August 25, 2012 See World hunger photos: the stories and images of people's lives
Coal lease scandal poses a riddle: will India ever be able to tackle corruption? Vikas Bajaj and Jim Yardley New York Times September 15, 2012
30% of children in southern Afghanistan malnourished, report says Emma Graham-Harrison The Guardian September 4, 2012 See more food and hunger crisis stories
An anti-child labour activist struggles to rescue a young boy during an operation targeting child traffickers. Up to 200,000 children a year fall into the hands of slave traders in India, many sold by their poverty-stricken parents for as little as £11. Now a group of activists has set out to rescue them from a life in the sweatshops of Delhi. Photo:Chamberlain/Guardian
Activists in India attempt to rescue children from being sold into slavery Gethin Chamberlain The Guardian (UK) August 4, 2012 See Child slavery in India in pictures See World hunger photos.
After 14 years, Philippines moves forward with bill to improve contraceptive access Floyd Whaley New York Times August 6, 2012 See more nutrition and health stories
Pakistan jails doctor who helped to find Bin Laden BBC News May 23, 2012 Fallout of Bin Laden raid: Aid groups in Pakistan are suspect Declan Walsh New York Times May 2, 2012 See Hunger Notes special report on foreign assistance
Bonded labor in Afghanistan’s brick kilns is one of the most common forms of hazardous labor in the country. More than half of the brick kiln workers surveyed in a recent report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) were children. According to the ILO, the kilns rely on debt bondage: Workers and their families are tied to a kiln by the need to pay off loans taken out for basic necessities, medical expenses, weddings and funerals.
Pakistan: Debt bondage or education? IRIN News May 23, 2012 Afghanistan: Debt bondage ensnares entire families IRIN News May 16, 2012 See Wikipedia debt bondage See Hunger Notes special report World hunger pictures and stories
South Korean report details alleged atrocities at North Korea’s prison camps Chico Harlan Washington Post May 9, 2012 See also Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West Blaine Harden Reviewed by Andrew Salmon Washington Post April 27, 2012
As China official Bo Xilai rose, his family’s wealth grew David Barboza New York Times April 23, 2012 Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai family connections--the close relatives of former Chinese Politburo member Bo Xilai and his wife, Gu Kailai, may have profited from the couple’s political influence New York Times April 24, 2012 Murder aside, China inquiry puts couple's wealth on trial Andrew Jacobs and Michael Wines New York Times April 12, 2012
Across India, nepotism as a way of life Manu Joseph New York Times April 11, 2012
Maid's cries cast light on child labor in India Jim Yardley New York Times April 4, 2012
Myanmar poll: Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD sweeps by-elections BBC News April 3, 2012
Pakistan schoolboy's self-immolation over school uniform raises alarm over poverty Richard Leiby and Haq Nawaz Khan Washington Post April 2, 2012
US suspends food assistance to North Korea William Ide Voice of America March 28, 2012 North Korea agrees to suspend some nuclear activities and missile tests in exchange for US food aid Associated Press/Washington Post February 29, 2012
The planned budget increase would lift annual spending on health to 2.5 percent of the country’s economic output, from 1.4 percent. The increase is aimed at giving free medicine to all Indians at government facilities, setting up free ambulances in rural areas, doubling the number of trained health workers, and lifting millions of young children and women out of chronic malnutrition and preventable deaths. Photo: New York Times
India plans big increase in health-care spending to catch up to rivals Rama Lakshmi Washington Post March 9, 2012 View photo gallery
Intractable Afghan graft hampering US strategy--Afghan government has yet to prosecute a high-level corruption case Matthew Rosenberg and Graham Bowley New York Times March 7, 2012
Pentagon commander says US special forces in India and four other Asian countries BBC News March 2, 2012
In China, human costs are built Into an iPad Charles Duhigg and David Barboza New York Times January 25, 2011 See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger
Nepal’s Monsanto debate spotlights seed sovereignty IRIN News January 12, 2012 See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger
Developed world failing on climate funds pledge, says Bangladeshi minister Fiona Harvey The Guardian January 2, 2012 See Hunger Notes special report Environment and hunger
As many as a million people live and work in Dharavi, a sprawling slum in Mumbai, India. Photo: Adam Ferguson/New York Times
In one slum, misery, work, politics, and hope Jim Yardley New York Times December 28, 2011
Vietnam: From rice to shrimps and ginger - adapting to saltwater intrusion caused by rising sea levels IRIN News December 28, 2011
Lentils in Nepal (short video) IRIN News December 2011
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies; hundreds of thousands starved as police state kept the world on edge Adam Bernstein Washington Post December 19, 2011 US, North Korea resume talks on food aid William Wan Washington Post December 15, 2011
