The European Parliament yesterday (19 January) approved legislation to strengthen the recovery of computers and other electronic and electrical waste while tightening exports of used goods to developing countries, ending months of hard-fought negotiations. More »

Abortion rates are higher in countries where the procedure is illegal and nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, with the vast majority in developing countries, a new study concludes.

Female prisoners around the world are being subjected to body cavity searches, beatings and force-feeding, are held in padded cells, shackled during childbirth, and made to work in chain gangs. Some of the worst conditions are in developing countries, but there are also serious abuses and overcrowding in Europe and North America. These are the major findings of a survey by The Independent on Sunda...

Britain and other rich countries are using aid money as a lever to bully developing countries over climate change, according to a new report by an anti-poverty pressure group.

Coal plants in developing countries get billions of euros in climate finance for new projects that do little to reduce CO2 emissions, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) says in a new report. More »

Coal plants in developing countries get billions of euros in climate finance for new projects that do little to reduce CO2 emissions, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) says in a new report. More »

In just over a decade, cyberspace has completely changed the way we live and work. Access has grown from 16 million internet users in 1995 to nearly 2 billion today, more than half of whom are in developing countries. On November 1st and 2nd, we will be hosting the London Conference on Cyberspace. The first of

while massively increasing the priority and resources for family planning and women’s empowerment programmes in developing countries, enabling the 215 million women with an unmet need for contraception to control their own fertility. All the woe is doom merchants about population, they’re all always going on about contraception. As I’ve said all too often before,

Experience shows that developing countries who strike oil invariably stay poor. I agree that many countries who have struck oil have remained poor. But invariably is much too strong. By the standards of today the US in 1859, when the Pennsylvania oil fields were found, was a developing country. Heck, we could make the argument

The arguments from the Chinese (and other developing countries) elite that "Democracy is all very well for the West, but our people aren't ready for it" is suspiciously similar to the old colonial claims about self-rule, but with a different...