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Thousands of stateless in Dominican Republic risk deportation – Trust.og

This means up to 200,000 people are in legal limbo and stateless – not recognised as a citizen by any country – and denied the basic rights most people take for granted.

In recent weeks, long queues of stateless people, the vast majority of Haitian descent, have formed at immigration offices in the capital Santo Domingo waiting to apply for residency permits before the Feb. 1 deadline.

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Nicole Oliveira hails from São Paulo, where climate change has worsened flooding and landslides. The extreme weather has already created major traffic problems in her city, and she worries that rising deforestation and Brazil's new push into offshore oil drilling could raise the country's emissions.   Climate change "has no borders and it's the most urgent issue that has to be solved," she says. "I'm very much motivated because I know that the solution is in the hands of industry and the people who profit, and not the people who are impacted."

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Poor people who did little to create climate change are paying the highest price for it. That injustice – and the struggles of her own neighbours to cope with growing climate pressures - is what is motivating Zephanie Daniels to take action. In her home country of the Philippines, she has seen how vulnerability to extreme weather is worsening the already existing gap between rich and poor. “When I hear the words ‘climate change’, it reminds me of a lot of faces,” she said. “When I hear the words ‘climate change’ it’s about a village in my community who fear being relocated when they are flooded, and families that are still at evacuation sites until now.”

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"For every dollar you spend on reproductive health services, you gain 9 dollars in other development costs, for example your water and sanitation networks and your transportation. "

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In its latest Millennium Development Goals Report, the United Nations has included fighting malaria among six main targets designed to promote progress in developing countries. Check out “5 Facts” we prepared for World Malaria Day back in April as essential background to efforts to combat a disease that kills a child in Africa every minute.

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Today is World Population Day (‪#‎worldpopday‬) ! In 2011, the world population reached 7 billion people. According to the UN, we are set to reach 10 billion by 2050.

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TWO-MINUTE TALKING POINT - What does population growth mean for climate change? by Laurie Goering

"You might think that cutting population growth is most important in places like Africa, where birthrates are higher than anywhere else in the world. ...But in fact, it’s curbing population in rich, developed countries that has the biggest influence on climate change." -- Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate editor/ Head of Climate Programme

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Thomson Reuters Foundation correspondents offer digestible commentary on pressing issues. “Two-minute talking points" bring you distilled insight from the front lines of humanitarian crises, climate change, corruption and human rights.

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