International stories

Enabling ethical producers in Cambodia to connect with the outside world. After decades of violent warfare, Cambodia has finally...

That point had come for the Chen family. Four months after Mrs Chen’s stroke, her speech had not returned...

“Hope is the hardest thing to find…” say those trying to rebuild Uganda’s northern areas devastated by two decades...

When Rwanda suffered its inimitable ethnic fighting, the result was not simply war. It was genocide. In 100 days,...

When Typhoon Sendong hit the Philippines in December 2011, Merlinda and her husband knew they were looking death in...

In the dusty refugee camps, towns and villages around Bethlehem, people with mental disabilities can often be shunned and...

“This epidemic is creating a nation of widows,” said an NGO worker in Swaziland, speaking of the AIDS crisis...

There are between 1 million and 4 million child labourers in Cameroon aged between 5-14. Some of them work...

Meiman, of China, knows the meaning of fair trade first hand. For almost a year, Meiman worked in a...