Aug 2, 2016
Many children out of school live in areas of conflict, others are girls living in societies that do not advocate educating women By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK, July 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Some 263 million children worldwide, nearly one in 10, do not go...
Aug 1, 2016
The first three months of 2016 have broken temperature records and 2015 was the planet’s warmest year since records began in the 19th century; By Beh Lih Yi, https://twitter.com/@BehLihYi JAKARTA, July 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rising temperatures...
Jul 28, 2016
irinnews.org, July 25, 2016, original Ten months ago, the UN’s 2030 Agenda laid out an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals to be met over the next 15 years as 193 countries committed themselves to “leaving no one behind” in the endeavour to end poverty and...
Jun 26, 2016
Haitians wash clothes in a stream January 8, 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Mario Tama / Getty) Since cholera first broke out in Haiti five years ago, Doctors Without Borders estimates that it has killed as many as 30,000 people, and another 2 million have survived...
Apr 16, 2013
What could have been happening in Afghanistan since 2002: MALI: The U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution to approve the creation of a 12,600-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali starting July 1, which would be able to request the support of...
