madagascar
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SDGs
Madagascar: Coordination, convergence and change from the grass roots up
How can people be best supported during humanitarian crises with limited aid budgets and what can be done to help…
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Asia Pacific
First Person: ‘Courageous’ 12-year-old reports relative after being raped in Madagascar
A 12-year-girl who was allegedly raped repeatedly by her stepfather has been described by Madagascar’s Chief Inspector of Police as…
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Women
First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born
Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are…
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Africa
First Person: Women in Madagascar too ashamed to seek help giving birth
Some of the poorest women in an underdeveloped region south of Madagascar are “too ashamed” to seek the maternal health…
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Climate Change
Madagascar Fishermen Roll with the Punches as Climate Change Turns Seas Deadly
Fishing communities in the south of Madagascar are facing sometimes deadly sea conditions due to climate change, but with the…
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Human Rights
A Wild Race Across Rural Madagascar: Rushing 200km to Save Mom’s Baby!
A young mother in Madagascar has been describing how she was forced to make a 200km emergency journey on challenging…
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Economic Development
Experience Financial Freedom in Southern Madagascar: Making Waves with Water
They live in the village of Ankilinanjosoa in Anosy, a region which has suffered a series of droughts leading to…
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Culture and Education
Student Chefs Spice Up Madagascar’s Fate: Cooking up Exciting Future Flavors
At Beabo Primary School in Ambovombe in the south of Madagascar, teams of students are in competition to cook the…
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Africa
“Girls in Southern Madagascar Get Hitched Before They’re Even Out of the Cradle!”
The arranged marriage typically involves the exchange of a highly prized and culturally important Zebu cow for teenage girls as…
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Human Rights
A Fearless 12-Year-Old Stands Up to Relative Over Assault in Madagascar
UN News spoke to Commissioner Aina Randriambelo, who described what efforts her country is making to promote gender equality and…
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