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Cultural Healing: Sudan – a creative peace-building project that trained journalism students, civil society representatives and young people to make short films expressing their cultures and traditions.

Four steps towards ending global poverty outlined in Cambridge International Development report

28 Nov 2013

A new report released by Cambridge's Humanitarian Centre aims to set the agenda for a new round of international development goals in 2015.

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Robert Zoellick

Head of World Bank to deliver prestigious Roskill Lecture at Churchill College

22 Feb 2012

The President of the World Bank, Robert B Zoellick, is to deliver the biennial Roskill Lecture at Cambridge University’s Churchill College this...

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Sarah Radcliffe

‘Extreme Sleepover #3’ – gathering the views of indigenous women in rural Ecuador

24 Dec 2011

In the third of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, geographer Dr Sarah Radcliffe describes her work with women from...

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Vegetables in whole food market.

The future of food: your chance to ask the experts

04 Jul 2011

How can we feed the world’s expanding population? Should we be using GM technologies more to boost the yield of our crops? How will global warming...

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un-techo-voluntario

Innovating sustainable housing design

06 Jun 2011

A new building initiative aims to innovate sustainable housing design for the developing world.

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View of hills in Kigali, Rwanda.

Cambridge students spur entrepreneurship in Rwanda

11 May 2011

A group of Cambridge students are spearheading an initiative to create an Entrepreneurship Week in Rwanda to help lift the country out of poverty.

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cell phone always in reach

How mobile phones are transforming healthcare

21 Apr 2011

New research highlights examples of medical care transformed by mobile networks.

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