Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The rape of a 6-year-old girl at a school in Bangalore has refocused attention on sexual abuse of children in India. (New York) – The rape of a 6-year-old girl at a ...
In the wake of recent tragedies, the United Nations refugee agency today called on European countries to take urgent action to stop the rising number of deaths among refugees and migrants attempting t...
Senior United Nations officials have welcomed the signing of an agreement on the cessation of hostilities by the parties in the Central African Republic (CAR) and highlighted the need to follow this u...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Australia should use the upcoming Australia-Vietnam human rights dialogue to press the Vietnamese government to make concrete and measurable improvements in its abysma...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The public debate over the recent surge in child migrants across the US border with Mexico should spur Congress to reform US immigration policy, Human Rights Watch sai...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is calling for urgent action to improve the health of the world's limited soil resources to ensure that future generations have enough suppli...
24 Julio 2014 “Las zonas devastadas por la guerra se están convirtiendo en un páramo en términos de atención sanitaria", afirma Fabio Forgione, coordinador general de MSF en Irak. Clínica móvi...
As more Africans and Syrians die trying to reach Europe, UNHCR calls for stepped-up rescue operations and more legal options for them to get there.
Esta página en: English La semana pasada, el periódico The New York Times publicó un editorial (i) que sugiere que el Banco Mundial debe convertirse en un centro de remesas. Declaró que las rem...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, 23 July 2014 – “On your mark, get set, go!” A group of Syrian refugee children burst across the starting line on the thin strip of fresh tarmac in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, running...
Bill Gates urged budget officers from the nation’s leading colleges to measure their own performance to ensure better student outcomes.
Last week many of us experienced strong emotions in a very short space of time in Vilnius, Lithuania. A group of people from different countries and backgrounds joined the Transparency International S...
Esta página en: English Hoy, el Gobierno del Reino Unido y el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF) organizaron conjuntamente la primera Cumbre de la Niña para movilizar esfuerzos...
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European Commission Press release Brussels, 23 July 2014 Significant new support to Ecuador for the years 2014-2017 will be announced by Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, during a visit to th...
Kosovo refugee Tefik Berisa and his family are proof that hard work and support from host governments and donors can lead to durable solutions in Montenegro.
What if the pathway to a medical procedure that could prevent HIV infections started on a soccer pitch? With a long-term objective of eradicating HIV in Zimbabwe, Grassroot Soccer initiated a series o...
Hi. My name is Ian and I'm a campaigner with Greenpeace. I'm also a new dad and a big fan of LEGO. She's a little young now, but I know that in a few years my baby girl will be building her own dreams...
SINJAR, Iraq, 22 July 2014 – The Zarifa Usi school, where Marwa now lives, is a far cry from the Golden Dunes school, where she used to study.
22 Julio 2014 Un estudio de mortalidad retrospectiva de Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) realizado entre familias refugiadas en Sido, en el sur de Chad, entre noviembre 2013 y abril de 2014 revela que al ...
22 Julio 2014 Los intensos combates en el norte y el centro de la provincia afgana de Helmand entre fuerzas gubernamentales y de la oposición elevado el número de heridos de guerra llegados al hospi...
Last week, I boarded a flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne, skimmed the official program of the 20th International AIDS Conference, circled a few of the stories I wanted to cover, and went to sleep. ...
Switzerland's cheese is famous for its holes and now one of the country's nuclear reactors is infamous for the same reason.I don't know about you but I'm terrible at home improvements and DIY. Ask me ...
The UN refugee agency and 16 partners are seeking urgent funds as CAR refugees continue to flee into the region in increasingly bad shape, especially in Cameroon.
European Commission Press release Brussels, 21 July, 2014 The EU's development contribution to Peru for the period 2014-2017 (€66 million), as well as new funding to support the fight against illega...
In this world where we seem surrounded by news of gloom and doom, we don't often hear stories of positive change.But here is one: a story of a village that has unshackled itself from darkness, after 3...
European Commission MEMO Brussels, 21 July 2014 Regional Cooperation with Latin America The EU has over 18 years of experience of regional cooperation in Latin America. Between 2007- 2013 the EU provi...
FORTALEZA, Brazil, 17 July 2014 – Rodrigo Xavier is 18 years old. But he’s had a ‘career’ as a health advocate since he was 11.
"Me cansé de perder amigos a causa de hechos de violencia con armas de fuego y ver cómo el potencial de mi generación se pierde en prisiones y cementerios”. Estas son las palabras de Ángel Bolí...
The 2014 World Cup had it all. Goals galore on the pitch, surprise results, tears and triumphs: a cornucopia of sporting excitement for a worldwide audience of more than a billion, culminating in a de...
Access to information (ATI) is not simply a piece of legislation. A country’s passing of such an act signals a change in culture from one of secrecy to one of transparency, and a strengthening of de...
En Vila Castelo, una aldea en el estado Pará en Brasil, las mujeres son pescadoras y aprenden a ser microempresarias con apoyo del BID.
La mujer lidera la transformación del municipio colombiano de Apartadó tras años de violencia.
El BID apoya la reestructuración y ampliación del aeropuerto internacional más grande de Costa Rica.