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In Argentina, Access to Water, Electricity Defunded for Low-Income Areas

A government program promised basic services to more than 850,000 people in low-income neighborhoods, but funding to do it is a casualty of new austerity measures. Advocates of the projects say austerity could undo decades of work to bring running water, electricity and other services to the country’s neediest neighborhoods.

By Lucila Pellettieri

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Zimbabwe
They Paid for Homes. Zimbabwe Never Gave Them Deeds.

A rent-to-own program aimed to help black citizens obtain property in a post-colonial world. Decades later, many homebuyers are still waiting to call their house their own.

By Evidence Chenjerai
Nepal
Nepal’s Media Landscape Faces a ‘Watershed Moment’

By Sunita Neupane
Nepal
The Forbidden Love Stories of Nepal’s Caste System

In a society still ruled by caste, couples fight families and courts to make a life together.

By Sunita Neupane

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They Paid for Homes. Zimbabwe Never Gave Them Deeds.

By Evidence Chenjerai

Zimbabweans Skeptical About Country’s Latest Currency

By Linda Mujuru

LGBT Ugandans Shut Out From Asylum by Impostors

By Nakisanze Segawa

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Americas

Coverage from Haiti, Mexico and Puerto Rico

In Argentina, Access to Water, Electricity Defunded for Low-Income Areas

By Lucila Pellettieri

Two Full-Time Jobs and Nothing to Eat: Argentine Families Adapt to Skyrocketing Food Prices

By Lucila Pellettieri

For Haiti’s Teachers and Students, Last School Year Was One of the Worst in Memory

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Asia

Coverage from Mongolia, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Nepal’s Media Landscape Faces a ‘Watershed Moment’

By Sunita Neupane

The Forbidden Love Stories of Nepal’s Caste System

By Sunita Neupane

When the Promise of a Job Is a Trap

By Thayalini Indrakularasa

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