International:

Agony without end for Liberia's child soldiers
The Observer - July 09
Tomorrow Charles Taylor becomes the first African leader to appear in the dock at The Hague accused of crimes against humanity. In the bullet-scarred region of Lofa, in northern Liberia, Annie Kelly meets his former child soldiers, who were first traumatised by war, then abandoned by the state - and have now been cast out by their own families.

Traumatised Tamils live in fear of new crackdown in Sri Lanka
The Observer - April 09
The Sri Lankan army is on the verge of wiping out the rebel Tamil Tiger forces. But, as Annie Kelly reports, there is concern that the displaced civilian population is suffering a fresh wave of human rights violations including arbitrary arrests and abductions.

Developing nations face malnutrition threat
The Guardian - April 09
Poor harvests, drought and rising food prices could have serious health implications for people living in developing countries.

Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks
The Guardian - March 09
Women live in fear of brutal assaults by male gangs and the country's 'macho politics' has lead to a lack of action.

Still waging war against infection
The Guardian - November 2008
HIV/Aids in Zambia is still wreaking havoc on communities, even though its prevalence has decreased. So, when people can't even afford to get to clinics, how is treatment being brought to rural areas?

Improving livelihoods is a slow, complicated process
The Guardian - October 08
One year on: Charles Marwa, Farm-Africa's regional monitoring and evaluation officer, reflects on the past year working with farmers in Katine

Liberia aims to become an inspiration to others
The Guardian - September 08
President Johnson Sirleaf explains how she's helped one of the world's poorest countries make great strides with two millennium goals...

Nicaragua: 'We no longer know what is happening to our land
The Guardian - September 08

Who Pays for the cost of our cheap school uniforms?
Action Aid - August 08
A 10-page report into working conditions affecting women in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka making school uniforms for UK supermarkets...

Green famine in Ethiopia
The Guardian - August 08
The rains have come, the land is lush but Ethiopians still go hungry...

Disappearing Daughters
Action Aid - June 08
Media report for Actionaid on India's "Disappearing Daughters", the millions of girl babies aborted following sex-selective ultrasounds..

Growing Discontent
The Guardian - February 08
One of the world's largest NGOs has helped millions in Bangladesh, but critics now claim it acts as a parallel state, accountable to no one...

Unsafe abortion in Argentina
The Guardian - August 08
Under current laws abortion is a crime in Argentina.û Annie Kelly reports from Cordoba city on the backstreet abortion clinics that are ending the lives of hundreds of women a year...

Hope dries up for Nicaragua's Miskito
The Guardian
Central American indigenous people are among first to suffer from climate change but least equipped to adapt...

Net losses
The Guardian
While Pakistan encourages foreign trawlers to fish in its seas, its traditional fishing communities are facing ruin. Now there are warnings that other countries are being pressured to follow its lead...

Cold logic
The Guardian
Antarctica is becoming a popular destination for tourists who want to experience its unspoiled beauty. But the huge increases in visitor numbers are threatening its ecology and its tranquility...

A tiny step for womankind
The New Statesman
Argentina is fighting the fashionistas with a law against micro-sized clothing. The road to physical perfection leads to Argentina, a country that takes its beautiful people very seriously - so seriously that, in a startling feat of political intervention, one regional government has implemented a law that is forcing the fashion industry to acknowledge that you can be too thin.

Argentina's veterans die of shame
The First Post
The losers in the Falklands war 25 years ago have been shunned by society. Twenty-five years ago, Miguel Boyero was aboard the Argentinian warship the General Belgrano when it was sunk by torpedoes fired from a British submarine at the start of the Falkland Islands war...

Women on top in the land of macho
The First Post
South America, bastion of macho culture, is having to come to terms with women taking over its politics...

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