Latest boat tragedy off Libya coast spotlights rising Mediterranean death toll – UN agency

Search and rescue operations are ongoing for survivors following the latest boat accident in the Mediterranean, this one incident off the Libyan coast of Tripoli this past Sunday, according to the Uni...

Escalating violence in Central African Republic threatens aid delivery – UN agency

Warning about the deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that the violence there was threatening humanitarian assistanc...

‘Time is not on our side’, says Ban, hailing new report on curbing carbon emissions

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, introducing a new United Nations-backed report outlining pathways major industrial economies can use to cut their carbon emissions by mid-century, called today for broad...

Thailand: Editor Arrested for Facebook Comments

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The arrest of a magazine editor for posting comments critical of the military on his Facebook page is emblematic of the military government’s deepening disregard for...

Nepal: Fix Flawed Truth, Reconciliation Act

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The Nepal government should act immediately to fix crucial flaws in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Act, particularly those highlighted in a new United N...

Fossil of world's smallest hedgehog unearthed in Canada

Fifty new Ebola cases, 25 deaths in West Africa - WHO

Dozens injured in South African commuter train accident

Improving Learning Experiences for Students with Special Needs

One way in which Common Core improves experiences for both teachers and students is how the standards address the learning needs of students with disabilities.

LEGO: Everything is NOT awesome

Raw HTML.. This morning we released a new video asking much-loved toy company, LEGO to ditch its partnership with oil company Shell. The film depicts an Arctic made entirely of LEGO and imagines an o...

Roaring Ahead to End Measles

For the past 89 years, the Lions have embraced Helen Keller’s challenge to become “knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness.” I felt honored to address them at their 97th Annual Inte...

Morocco: Homosexuality Convictions Upheld

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email A Moroccan appeals court on July 2, 2014, upheld the convictions of men accused of homosexual acts. At least four of the six defendants in the case in central Morocco ...

"Hello Sweden – to feel home in a new country"

Sweden gives a warm welcome to UNHCR refugee awareness project

Latest tragedy off Libya adds to death toll in Mediterranean

UNHCR says governments must do better, as more than 500 people have died this year trying to reach Europe in often dangerous boats.

Syrian refugee women fight for survival as they head families alone

One quarter of Syrian refugee women are caught in a spiral of poverty, isolation and fear, UNHCR report finds

6 myths this Indonesian logger didn't want busted

A new study published last week shows Indonesia's forests are disappearing faster than anywhere else in the world. In Sumatra and Kalimantan, much of this destruction is in forested peatlands. Drainin...

Mia Farrow talks about the tremendous loss suffered by children and women displaced in the Central African Republic

BODA, Central African Republic, 7 July 2014 – “There’s not only the loss of possessions, a home or the lives of family members… there’s the trauma of insecurity, the sense that they don’t ...

Summer Reading Picks From the Gates Foundation

Gates Foundation employees share their inspiring book picks.

Arabia Saudí:Se aplica nueva ley antiterrorista para encarcelar a activista saudí de los derechos humanos

We are all agents of change

At Greenpeace, we are agents of change. We see the way we are consuming our world, and we neither accept it, nor the status quo that drives it. Our impatience with finding ways to make our planet bet...

Bangladesh: Cutting off our heads to cure a headache?

Three years ago my team visited Khulna, a district in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh. We went to meet the communities trying to rebuild their lives there after their villages were almost co...

Egipto:Tortura, detenciones y reclusiones arbitrarias; catastrófico deterioro de los DD. HH. un año después del derrocamiento de Morsi

El año pasado se informó de al menos 16.000 detenciones y al menos 80 muertes bajo custodia La tortura y otros malos tratos bajo custodia continúan imparables

Casi el 60% de los migrantes centroamericanos atendidos por MSF en México ha sufrido episodios de violencia

2 Julio 2014 El 58% de los migrantes centroamericanos atendidos por Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) en México ha sufrido uno o varios episodios de violencia a lo largo de su ruta, sobre todo robos, exto...

Emiratos Árabes Unidos:Un año después del juicio mediático masivo, los opositores al gobierno se consumen en prisión

A Malian refugee girl in Niger chooses school over marriage

INTIKANE, Niger, 1 July 2014 – Aïchatou Mohamed attends primary school in Intikane, in northern Niger, where more than 10,000 refugees from Mali are living. Aichatou likes school and is always on t...

Una reorganización para poner fin a la pobreza y reducir las desigualdades

Hace dos años, en un día como hoy, asumí con mucho honor y humildad el cargo de presidente del Grupo del Banco Mundial, cuya misión —poner fin a la pobreza— es un área en la que he trabajado ...

MSF alerta sobre violencia generalizada contra la atención médica en Sudán del Sur

1 Julio 2014 Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) alerta, en un informe hecho público hoy, de las consecuencias que están teniendo los ataques a los hospitales y la destrucción de las instalaciones médica...

“We were forced to kill”

N’DJAMENA, Chad, 1 July 2014 – As he sits on a tree trunk, staring at the ground, Ibrahim* recalls how a rebel group in northern Chad recruited him three years ago. His voice is monotone, as if hi...

Revista Agroindustria

Es una estadística desalentadora para un planeta ya saturado que la población mundial superará los 9000 millones de habitantes en 2050. Eso significa 2000 millones de personas más que se deben ali...

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...

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...

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...

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.