New videos raise fresh questions in Chicago police shooting of black teen

Russia seeks economic revenge against Turkey over jet

Athletics-Coe cancels five-star apartment as IAAF reforms begin

EU signs program worth €3.6 billion with Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States

European Commission - Press release Brussels, 26 November 2015 EU signs program to provide support in the areas of human and social development, environment and climate change, private sector developm...

EU announces new support for Mozambique

European Commission - Press release Brussels, 26 November 2015 Today Commissioner Neven Mimica on behalf of the European Union, with Ms. Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane, Mozambique's Vice-Minister for Foreign...

'Nothing has changed' – UN expert on DPR Korea says two years after key human rights report

A United Nations expert on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) today warned that nothing has changed in the country since the UN Commission of Inquiry on ...

Surge in climate change-related disasters poses growing threat to food security – UN

Droughts, floods, storms and other disasters triggered by climate change have risen in frequency and severity over the last three decades, increasing the damage caused to the agricultural sectors of m...

Child brides in Africa could more than double to 310 million by 2050 – UNICEF

Nearly half of the world's child brides in 2050 will be African, if current trends persist, due to the continent's rapid population growth and lagging social reforms, the United Nations Children's Fun...

Afghan refugee defies oppression with paint

Through her colourful artwork, 26-year-old Manizha captures the untold stories of Afghan women

4 of ExxonMobil’s greatest climate denial hits

In the last few months, exposé after exposé has uncovered how Exxon knew about the dangerous reality of climate change before the media, politicians and just about everyone else. But instead of doin...

Reacción inicial de MSF a la investigación del ejército de Estados Unidos sobre el ataque a su hospital en Kunduz

25 Noviembre 2015 Christopher Stokes, Director General de MSF, escribe la reacción de la organización ante la investigación interna del ejército de EEUU. © Andrew Quilty La versión estadounidens...

Growing up too fast in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

PATE BANA MARANK, Sierra Leone, 25 November 2015 – John Kamara is growing fast, as he should be at 13 years old. But as the delayed second school term resumes across Sierra Leone, the one school u...

En memoria de nuestros colegas que murieron en el ataque al Hospital de Trauma de MSF en Kunduz

25 Noviembre 2015 El 3 de octubre de 2015 siempre será un día negro en la historia de Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF). En las primeras horas de la mañana, el Hospital de Trauma de MSF en Kunduz, Afgan...

Factsheet on Pan-African Action Plan projects

European Commission - Fact Sheet Brussels, 25 November 2015 The European Commission has announced nearly €150 million for nine projects to support governance and human rights, as well as innovation ...

Túnez: Los violadores quedan impunes mientras se culpa y castiga a sus víctimas

16 Days of Activism: UNHCR recognizes importance of access to safe education

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres marks annual 16 Days of Activism against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence with call for safe education

New friendships for first-time Syrian cyclists in Berlin

Shiraz, a Syrian asylum-seeker from Aleppo, is learning how to cycle so she can get around like the locals in her new home in Germany.

Could you go a year without buying new clothes?

The last time I bought something new to wear was July 2014: it was a pretty blue dress for my graduation. Since then, every piece of clothing that found it’s way into my closet has been bought secon...

Football on trial

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end the Germans always win, or so said Gary Lineker, the popular TV commentator and former England international. He wa...

Valoración de MSF del nuevo informe de ONUSIDA sobre el progreso global en la ampliación del tratamiento de VIH

24 Noviembre 2015 37 millones de personas con VIH son elegibles para tratamiento pero menos de la mitad (15,8 millones) tiene aún acceso al mismo. Los países deben comenzar a implementar las nuevas ...

España: Graves ausencias y retrocesos en la protección a las víctimas de violencia de género

25 de noviembre, Día Internacional para la Erradicación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres

¿Dónde están las leyes contra la violencia doméstica?

​ Las formas más comunes de violencia que experimentan las mujeres proviene de la pareja íntima. Un estudio reciente encontró que en 127 de 173 economías existían leyes en violencia doméstica...

Pakistán, a punto de alcanzar la vergonzosa cifra de 300 ejecuciones, menos de un año después de restablecer la pena de muerte

When Homelessness Becomes an Emergency

The encampments and tent cities that are now familiar parts of our urban landscape aren’t eyesores to ignore, but reminders of one of the greatest inequities in what we want to believe is a land of ...

Tackling Injustice and Inequality through Teaching

Within the local K-12 school systems, TeachingWorks will work with practicing district mentors, coaches, and other leaders to provide support for beginning teaching.

Pioneering the Transformation of Teacher Preparation in Massachusetts

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Massachusetts DESE will be able to prepare these new educators with the right tools, resources, and practices so that they are ready for thei...

Bulgarian politics: how to ensure a referendum fails

On Sunday, 25 October 2015, telephones started ringing at 7 am at the offices of Transparency International Bulgaria (TI Bulgaria). A team of eight colleagues was taking calls from concerned citizens....

Another historic day in the battle to stop the tarsands

Today people slowed the beast again but this time we did it at the source.After a string of pipeline victories and over a decade of campaigning on at least three different continents, the Alberta gove...

Limpiemos las maneras sucias de cocinar

Also available in: English Realmente – Hagámoslo. Es un hecho: la contaminación del aire en el interior de las viviendas provocada por cocinar con combustibles sólidos como la madera, el carbón ...

#Music4Dev del Banco Mundial contrae el “dengue”

La banda Dengue Fever de Los Ángeles comparte su giro al rock camboyano de la década de 1960, un estilo musical que casi fue aniquilado durante la era de los jemeres rojos, y habla de Cambodian Livi...

In Myanmar, uniting for children’s health and nutrition

KACHIN STATE, Myanmar, November 2015 - “I could hear the planes bombing the area, the constant gun shots and mine explosions,” Lwan No recalls. Lwan No was caught in the middle of the civil confli...

Why good governance in football associations matters

FIFA and its corruption scandals continue to dominate the headlines. As it struggles to find a credible candidate to take over as president, Transparency International has turned its attention to FIFA...

In Afghanistan, mending spirits and providing warmth

TALOQAN, Afghanistan, 18 November 2015 – “I am scared. I don’t want to come to school alone,” says 10-year-old Samira, a student at the Bibi Hajera High School in Taloqan, in Afghanistan’s T...

Canadá y el BID: socios para la prosperidad

En 2015, Canadá y el BID reflejan años de colaboración

La Pesca en Pará, un Negocio Femenino

En Vila Castelo, una aldea en el estado Pará en Brasil, las mujeres son pescadoras y aprenden a ser microempresarias con apoyo del BID.

Forjadoras del Nuevo Apartadó

La mujer lidera la transformación del municipio colombiano de Apartadó tras años de violencia.