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FILE PHOTO: Cotton farmer Karim Traore surveys his cotton field outside Koutiala August 30, 2012. | REUTERS/Joe Penney
As cotton price tumbles during pandemic, farmers worry the state support they rely on to grow food in a warming climate will dry up.
FILE PHOTO: Women hold placards as they protest against gender-based violence, outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 13, 2019. | REUTERS/Marius Bosch
As South Africa's lockdown eases, a recent spate of brutal murders against women has sparked outrage and calls for justice.
Aqsa Mushtaque (R) distributes sanitary pads in the slums of Kolkata, India on June 10, 2020. | Photo credit: Aqsa Mushtaque
Campaigners say hard-won progress on menstrual hygiene has been eroded due to the coronavirus pandemic.
FILE PHOTO: A view of an empty beach is seen a day before the temporary closure of the holiday island Boracay in the Philippines April 25, 2018. | REUTERS/Erik De Castro
With fragile ecosystems under pressure, some island destinations hope to use the coronavirus crisis to develop a more sustainable tourism model.
Labourers on the hills of Bagrami, on the outskirts of Kabul, dig trenches to help improve the city's water supply, Kabul, Afghanistan, June 6, 2020. | Thomson Reuters Foundation/Shadi Khan Saif
The government aims to tackle both the economic fallout from COVID-19 and the capital's shrinking water supply.
iners eat in a tent set up on a street outside the Forbici Modern Italian restaurant in Tampa, Florida, in May amid the coronavirus pandemic. | Handout photo by Amy Pezzicara / Pezz Photo
As urban areas start to reopen, some are looking at their sidewalks, squares, parking lots and even streets as a hidden asset in boosting their economies.
ARCHIVE PHOTO: Boys play soccer in the streets of the Mercato market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 14, 2015. | REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
Thousands of street children in Addis Ababa are being moved to shelters as COVID-19 cases soar in the east African nation.
A student takes classes online with his companions using the Zoom app at home during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in El Masnou, north of Barcelona, Spain April 2, 2020. | REUTERS/ Albert Gea
As lockdowns lift but social-distancing rules remain, more services and businesses will continue to go digital.
A view of a Poda Thurupu bull for sale at an animal market in India’s Telangana state. | Photo: Nemani Chandrasekhar/WASSAN
Already hit by climate change and growing grazing restrictions, pastoralists now see their movement limited and markets closed.
ARCHIVE PHOTO: Boats are secured off as residents look on at Port Royal while Hurricane Matthew approaches in Kingston, Jamaica October 2, 2016. | REUTERS/Henry Romero
Countries from Jamaica to Kenya and Gabon "know how vital this process is" of boosting national action to meet global climate goals.
Wanea Mabele, mother of a measles patient, walks through the measles isolation ward in Boso-Manzi hospital in Mongala province in northern Democratic Republic of Congo February 29, 2020. Picture taken February 29, 2020. | REUTERS/Hereward Holland
As measles, coronavirus and Ebola hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, women face stigma and delayed sexual health treatment.
People holding banners in front of police officers near Downing Street during a "Black Lives Matter" protest following the death of George Floyd who died in police custody in Minneapolis, London, Britain, June 3, 2020. | REUTERS/Toby Melville
Concerns are growing over the ‘deep’ racial inequality that the spread of the virus has exposed in Britain.
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