Strongly condemning murder of missing Israeli teens, UN chief urges calm on all sides

Strongly condemning the murder of three Israeli teenagers abducted in mid-June in the West Bank, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today declared that the perpetrators’ attempts to stoke tensions in the...

U.S. justices uphold firms' religious objections to contraception

For Alibaba, a challenge is to turn mobile into money

China's Xi heads to Seoul with North Korea on his mind

‘No one could have predicted’ scope of South Sudan crisis, outgoing UN envoy says

As the top United Nations envoy in South Sudan prepares to complete her tenure, she says that no one could have predicted the horrible conflict that has gripped the world’s youngest nation for the p...

UN reports on new roadmap to boost small-scale, family forest producers

If small-scale forest and farm producers joined to form producer organizations, they could increase forest productivity and improve livelihoods of local communities, the United Nations agricultural ag...

Success Factors for Women’s and Children’s Health: Saving Lives in Nepal

This blog is part of a series linked to the Success Factors for Women’s and Children’s Health studies presented at this year’s Partners’ Forum. PMNCH, WHO, World Bank and the Alliance for Heal...

Russia: “Foreign Agents” Law Hits Hundreds of NGOs: Updated June 30, 2014

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email In early March 2013 the Russian government launched an unprecedented, nationwide campaign of inspections of thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to identi...

Can a Village Revolution for Mothers and Newborns Go Global?

Hopefully, this will mark the beginning of one of the world's greatest health crusades in history -- ending preventable deaths of mothers and newborns and stillbirths within our own lifetime.

21st Century Progress in Africa: Achieving MDG 5 in Rwanda

21st Century Progress in Africa: Achieving MDG 5 in Rwanda

Pakistan: Rampant Killings of Shia by Extremists

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Pakistan’s government should take all necessary measures to stop Sunni extremist groups in Balochistan province from committing further killings and other abuses aga...

Russia: Anti-LGBT Law a Tool for Discrimination

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law has served as a tool for anti-gay discrimination in the year since it entered into force, even though Russian authorities have...

Ebb and flow of forced displacement in Iraq

There are families that fled fighting in central Iraq almost a decade ago, who settled elsewhere, and are now finding they have to flee to safety yet again.

Crowds turn up for polio vaccinations in Nigeria’s north-east

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, 26 June 2014 – Young women hold their little ones as they sit patiently on wooden benches, waiting their turn at a health camp that provides polio vaccination and much-needed hea...

Irak:Los testimonios apuntan a decenas de ejecuciones de detenidos suníes por venganza

Pushing for transparency in Congo Basin palm oil

The global palm oil industry is at a critical juncture. In 2012 we published a report that outlined how Africa is a new frontier for industrial palm oil production. This may bring much needed developm...

Rusia:Un tribunal de Moscú consolida la caza de brujas contra las ONG

Egipto:Una abogada de derechos humanos, última víctima de la represiva ley de manifestación

TEPCO senior management still out of touch with their victims

It has often been pointed out that TEPCO has been badly managed for years and that it caused the triple meltdown of its reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. So, I attended the 90th Annual General Meeting of...

Thousands flee fresh violence in Central African Republic town of Bambari

The violence began early on Monday when armed elements attacked a camp just south of Bambari housing Muslims from the Peul ethnic group.

Sharp rise in Ukrainian displacement, with more than 50,000 internally displaced

Increases are also being seen in the numbers of Ukrainians in Russia and other countries, although so far only a relatively small number have applied for refugee status.

What we've achieved together - the 2 year anniversary of Save the Arctic

It's pretty flat out on the Arctic campaign these days and there often isn't much time to stop and reflect on things.But if the 2 year anniversary of what is possibly the defining environmental battle...

Territorios Palestinos: MSF asiste a los afectados por la operación militar en Cisjordania

26 Junio 2014 MSF está dando apoyo psicológico a los afectados por la operación militar que el ejército israelí está llevando a cabo en el distrito de Hebrón en Cisjordania. Como respuesta a es...

EU announces significant new funding for education

European Commission Press release Brussels, 26 June 2014 New funding to support education in developing countries over the next seven years, through the Global Partnership for Education, (or GPE), was...

Opening speech at the Brussels Global Partnership for Education Pledging Conference

European Commission [Check Against Delivery] Andris PIEBALGS European Commissioner for Development Global Partnership for Education Second Replenishment Pledging conference Brussels, 26 June 2014 Your...

Filipinas: Educación sin fronteras

Esta página en: English El campeón de boxeo filipino, Manny Pacquiao, completó su educación secundaria a través ​del Sistema de Aprendizaje Alternativo, luego de aprobar el examen ​ obligator...

G20 anti-corruption meeting: progress, but without ambition

The G20 is making progress in the fight against corruption. However for all the talk, the representatives of the world’s leading economies are not setting the bar high enough. From our point of view...

In South Sudan, educating children in crisis

JUBA, South Sudan, 24 June 2014 – It is a rainy morning in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Despite the weather, people appear to be going about their activities as normal at the Mahad settlement f...

El Banco Mundial ayuda a impulsar un desarrollo libre de corrupción en el mundo

El sector privado ha sido durante mucho tiempo un asociado clave del Grupo del Banco Mundial, proporcionando los bienes y servicios requeridos a los países que los necesitan y, al mismo tiempo, estim...

Datos muestran aumento del crédito interno en países en desarrollo

El acceso a financiamiento, la disponibilidad de crédito y el costo de los servicios son elementos clave en el desarrollo financiero. El crédito financia la producción, el consumo y la formación d...

EU signs new support for government reforms in Haiti

European Commission Press release Brussels, 24 June 2014 Today the EU will approve a direct payment to the government of Haiti of €34 million in order to support ongoing reforms to modernise the sta...

Adolescent theatre builds peace in Sierra Leone

KENEMA, Sierra Leone, 23 June 2014 – As the growing crowd waits expectantly in a square in Sierra Leone’s Kenema district, 17-year-old Ibrahim Jalloh and his fellow actors are brimming with excite...

Ébola en África Occidental: MSF reclama una movilización regional excepcional para controlar la epidemia

23 Junio 2014 El brote de Ébola sigue propagándose en Guinea, Sierra Leona y Liberia. Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) alerta que para poner la epidemia bajo control se requiere un despliegue masivo de ...

HOW THE G20 COULD UNMASK THE CORRUPT

The G20 leaders meet in Australia later this year. Pressure is growing on them to build on the commitments from last June’s G8 Summit on beneficial ownership. That’s an obscure phrase for an ugl...

Sudán del Sur: MSF advierte sobre las deplorables condiciones de vida en Bentiu

20 Junio 2014 Las enfermedades prevenibles y la desnutrición aguda severa están causando un alarmante número de muertes entre los alrededor de 45.000 desplazados que han buscado refugio en la base ...

Czech construction job: honest official makes sure citizens win

Unhošť is a small, sleepy town about 20 kilometres from Prague’s city centre – home to around 3,500 inhabitants. Normally, this is a peaceful place, but a controversy a few years ago has taken i...

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.

Listos para despegar

El BID apoya la reestructuración y ampliación del aeropuerto internacional más grande de Costa Rica.