Transparency International

MORE THAN 6 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN COUNTRIES WITH A SERIOUS CORRUPTION PROBLEM

This nine-year-old girl is one of them.

She lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh – one of 114 countries that scores below 50 out of 100 in our 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index, indicating serious levels of public sector corruption.

Instead of going to school, she spends her days sorting bottles at a recycling factory. Officially child labour is illegal in Bangladesh. Unofficially a bribe paid to the right official can mean exceptions are made.

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ALJAZEERA – As isolationism is sweeping through the West, China is to become the unlikely champion of globalisation.

Workers assemble mobile phones on a product line at a factory in Sichuan Province, China [Getty]

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UN News Center

By JON EMONT and SERGEY PONOMAREVDEC.
2, 2016 New York Times

Teu Kapik Sibajak, left, and Aman Aqwi Sakkukuret, members of the Mentawai tribe, on the island of Siberut in Indonesia. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

DOROUGOK, Indonesia — The older man wore just a loincloth, revealing taut muscles and leathery skin from decades of living deep in the rain forest. Like other members of his tribe, he was covered head to toe in tattoos. Though he appeared strong, he had a pronounced hunch, and a cough from smoking too much tobacco.

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