The Guardian Weekly newspaper occasionally publishes supplements on global issues, such as aid, international development, health, diplomacy, water, trade and education. Here, you can download the most recent supplements in PDF form or read selected articles from each by following the links below.
World Aids Day: fighting ignorance
Wednesday November 26th 2008
As treatment improves and death rates fall, will we tolerate an 'acceptable' infection level?
We can't afford complacency on Aids
Donor countries must keep the funds coming as hopes of a quick cure are increasingly unlikely, writes Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley
Postgraduate degrees and research programmes bring a more scientific approach to the control of HIV and Aids, writes Stephen Hoare
Climate change and housing
Wednesday August 13th 2008
Homes are a major source of greenhouse gases, but there are ways to make a difference
Saving the world begins at home
Up to 25% of energy use is in homes, but simple efficiency measures can easily cut this by 40%, write David Adam and Paul Evans
Young builders shape the zero-carbon home
Trainees learn to lower labour and energy costs and to focus on lower material wastage, finds Stephen Hoare
Climate change and technology
Wednesday June 25th 2008
The race is on to find fossil fuels and come up with ways to reduce their impact
Can clean coal save the earth?
Carbon capture may be the technological answer to a power-hungry planet, but a change in consumption is the long-term solution, writes John Vidal
Leading climate scientist Wallace S Broecker challenges Greenpeace's preventative stance against deep-ocean CO2 storage
Special focus on Congo
Thursday June 12th 2008
A survey of development, security and governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The DRC was looted by Belgians and the corrupt Mobutu. Then came ethnic conflict. Chris McGreal and the Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen ask whether Congo can ever achieve stability
Hate passes down the generations
Teenage Hutu soldiers are too young to remember Rwanda, but they want to fight their way back there, reports Chris McGreal
Switching on: Connecting the world
Wednesday May 14th 2008
We look at how new technologies are improving the lives of people around the world in this special report for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
Technology in developing nations
Many third-world countries are being transformed by the introduction and affordability of mobile phones and the internet, writes Charles Arthur
We should be assisting the disabled 10% of the world’s population to plug into the information age and the technological advantages it brings, says the UN telecoms agency. Guy Clapperton reports
Every drop counts: the politics of water
Wednesday March 19th 2008
In a special report for World Water Day, we look at the global problem of poor sanitation and what governments are proposing to do about it
Thousands die from lack of sanitation
More than 1 billion people have no access to clean water, reports John Vidal. Polls of the poor prove that sewage is their top priority, but in many potential donor nations, toilets are still taboo
Since Israel blocked the electricity supply to Gaza last June, water and sanitation systems in the area are failing. Human rights groups warn of inevitable outbreaks of water-borne diseases and mass dehydration, writes Annie Kelly
Women and power: The global gains and losses
Wednesday February 20th 2008
While the male monopoly on leadership across the globe is fracturing, in some countries the advances are being reversed
First lady comes second in America
Female leaders remain scarce worldwide and it looks as if Clinton may not join their ranks. Anne Perkins asks if a woman in the White House might be too dizzying a prospect for the US
Since the invasion, rapes, burnings and murders have become a daily occurrence. Mark Lattimer says that Iraqi women are now counting the cost of freedom they have lost
Migration: A world on the move
Friday February 1st 2008
A special report on international human flows, which are rarely predictable, usually intra-continental and increasingly female
Traditionally the bulk of migration has been between developing states. But this is beginning to change, says Tracy McVeigh
Universities focus on the issues behind a world on the move, and the cross-disciplinary field is taking in legal, social and political perspectives, writes Stephen Hoare
The Year in Review 2007
Wednesday December 19th 2007
Guardian journalists sum up the year's biggest stories in North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, Australia and Britain
China's empire keeps expanding
In a special extended online version of our news review of China, Jonathan Watts explains why the Chinese steamroller powers on, regardless of the bumps
The superpower appears to hold the reins in the race to rescue the Middle East, Kosovo and the planet. But it’s in danger of doing too little too late, says Julian Borger
The gift of a future: saving the children of despair
Monday November 26th 2007
In aid of Universal Children's Day, this is a special report on the lives of children across the globe who are affected by conflict and poverty
Old enough to go into battle, but still a child
UN action, local pacts and personal testimony are starting to have an impact on world opinion, writes Jenny Kuper
New start for young sex workers in India
Raekha Prasad explains how girls as young as 10 have been forced into prostitution by poverty and prejudice
