The United Nations envoy to Yemen today expressed concern over the high level of unrest in the country which he says is probably the most serious since the beginning of the political transition in 201...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed today’s announcement of an open-ended ceasefire for Gaza, brokered under Egyptian auspices, and said he hopes this will lead to a political process aimed a...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the signing by the South Sudanese Government and the opposition of a plan to implement a seventh-month-old ceasefire deal between the two side...
Vicki Phillips on how teachers are helping define what they need and contribute to classroom solutions.
Come and spend two weeks traveling the oil fields of the Komi Republic and you can see two hundred different places contaminated in one way or another by the oil industry: rivers, swamps, forests, and...
This past weekend thousands of people joined hands to form an eight-kilometer Human Chain across the border of Germany and Poland to protest against lignite coal mining in the area.30 different nation...
26 Agosto 2014 Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) ha puesto en marcha una intervención para dar respuesta al brote confirmado de enfermedad por el virus del Ébola en la provincia de Ecuador, en el norte d...
Janina Dziadez's farmhouse in the village of Biecz is surrounded by old red-brick barns and the 79 year old's immaculately-kept garden. She moved here with her husband in 1954 and the farm houses four...
26 Agosto 2014 Por primera vez los equipos de Médicos Sin Fronteras llevan a cabo una vacunación a gran escala contra el cólera en Etiopía. La campaña de inmunización masiva protegerá a los ref...
The past few days have been the deadliest this year on the Mediterranean for people making irregular crossings to Europe, with at least three vessels sinking.
Thanks to support across the country, hundreds of thousands of students now have access to classroom tools they need to succeed.
It’s the blockbuster policy book of the year: Thomas Piketty’s weighty Capital in the 21st Century, a 600 plus-page analysis of the scale and perils of rising inequality. As Piketty argues, wealth...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip should urgently act to stop executions of Palestinians accused of providing information to the Israeli military and appropriately p...
As we near "back to school" season for higher education, Dan Greenstein looks at promising solutions for the incoming college class.
25 Agosto 2014 24 de agosto de 2014. Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) confirma con gran dolor el fallecimiento de sus dos compañeros, un trabajador comunitario de Guinea y un enfermero de Liberia. Centro...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Bahrain should provide victims of torture with physical and psychological rehabilitation, Human Rights Watch and other human rights groups said today, based on a lette...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The Indian government should end “manual scavenging” – the cleaning of human waste by communities considered low-caste – by ensuring that local officials enfor...
The four Bahati sisters, former Congolese refugees," are making a name in Canada as "Thebahatizz" and using music to highlight the issue of sexual violence.
The report collates information through interviews, and from media reports, partners and governments. It highlights the abuses people are facing on their journeys.
This week Standard Chartered Bank reached a second settlement with regulators in New York for failing to monitor suspicious financial transactions. It had also promised to tighten up its anti-money la...
BANGUI, Central African Republic, 20 August 2014 – The grounds of the Boy Rabe Monastery in Bangui are filled with the sounds of children – singing, counting, reciting lessons. With almost two thi...
La campaña "Qué se necesita" permitó que la gente comparta sus ideas sobre la cómo eliminar la pobreza. © Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank. En septiembre de 2000, líderes mundiales se compromet...
On 24 July the town hall in Queimada Nova was packed. The citizens of this small town – which has about 8,000 residents and is situated 520km from Teresina, the state capital of Piauí – had gath...
Also available in English Hace unos años, los autores Peter Menzel y Faith D’Aluisio publicaron “Hungry Planet [Planeta Hambriento]”, un libro fascinante con fotos de lo que comen las familias...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, 19 August 2014 – In Burkina Faso, thousands of children under 5 die from preventable causes such as diarrhoea, a leading killer of children in this West African nation. Ac...
Por tercera vez en sus 66 años de historia, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha declarado una emergencia de salud pública a nivel global. Esta vez se trata del brote del virus del Ébola e...
AGADEZ, Niger, 18 August 2014 – Mahamadou Mala Saley is 12 years old. His friends call him ‘Shaolingue’, for the kung fu movies he loves. Like many other children living on the streets of Agadez...
European Commission Press release Brussels, 8 August 2014 The European Union is increasing by an additional €8 million its efforts to contain the spread of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This is...
European Commission Press release Brussels, 8 August 2014 The European Commission will provide additional funding for the Airport Communication Project (AIRCOP) to disrupt the illegal networks that ar...
European Commission Press release Brussels, 6 August 2014 The European Commission has launched the first phase of a new programme that will foster Africa's integration process at continental level - t...
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.