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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.
Year in review 2009
Wednesday December 16th 2009
Guardian journalists John Vidal, Julian Borger, Larry Elliott, Afua Hirsch, Patrick Collinson and Derek Brown sum up the year's biggest stories from around the world
World Aids Day 2009
Tuesday November 24th 2009
Ahead of this year's WAD, we analyse whether the massive push to save the lives of a generation could become a victim of its own success
The Guardian Weekly at 90
Wednesday July 1st 2009
On July 4 1919 the very first Guardian Weekly rolled off the presses. Read our special section, celebrating 90 years of the paper
March 1 1940: new Dalai Lamais enthroned in Lhasa
July 16 1959: a parade marks the first anniversary of the Iraq revolution
Year in Review 2008
Monday May 11th 2009
Guardian journalists sum up the year's biggest stories in the US, Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, Australia and Britain
America no longer world's sole superpower
Barack Obama's election victory will not prevent the US from only being the strongest of several world powers in a multipolar world rather than the globe's sole superpower, says Julian Borger
Earth teeters at its physical limits
It was not a great year for the environment, reports John Vidal. It became clear that climate change was already disproportionately hitting the people who can least tolerate it: the poor
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
