Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email A draft government plan would entrench discriminatory policies that deprive Rohingya Muslims in Burma of citizenship and lead to the forced resettlement of over 130,00...
With a quarter of the world’s population living in urban slums, a sustainable response to improving the living conditions of the urban poor is becoming increasingly necessary, the United Nations age...
The United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui today condemned the school attacks in Syria, which reportedly killed over 39 people, 30 of whom were children...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Human rights groups, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights groups, should be able to register and carry out their work in Kenya, Human Rights...
2 Octubre 2014 Un año después del trágico naufragio frente a la isla italiana de Lampedusa, guerras como las de Siria, las crisis prolongadas que sufren distintos países en conflicto y el caos que...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The Syrian government should immediately and unconditionally free the prominent human rights lawyer Khalil Ma’touq, 26 organizations said today, on the second annive...
Barely two weeks after the monumental People's Climate March, a humble Climate Walk begins. A postscript, if you may, in the letter written by thousands of empowered individuals calling on the world's...
European Commission Press release Brussels, 2 October 2014 EU Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, has today announced a new project to promote and protect the rights of migrants moving between ...
En la fundación de Bill y Melinda Gates, trabajamos para asegurar que haya oportunidades educativas para todos los alumnos.
Navigating the school system can be a challenge for parents. It’s even harder when you don’t speak English. Here are some tools that could help.
Those making the crossing in the first half of the year faced a 1.06 per cent chance of losing their life, compared to 2.4 per cent for those crossing in the third quarter.
A mother is reunited with the daughters she was forced to abandon in a refugee camp in Tanzania in order to avoid being forced to marry her late husband's relative.
Twenty-four-year-old Letebrhane never wanted to see the sea again after nearly drowning off Italy a year ago, but she decided to return and remember the dead.
As we work together to ensure all higher education students succeed, faculty must have a voice and a seat at the table.
El 9 de octubre se realizará el primer evento TEDxWBG (i) en la ciudad de Washington. Un grupo de destacados intelectuales, artistas y emprendedores se reunirá y reflexionará sobre el fin de la p...
European Commission MEMO Brussels, 1 October 2014 Virunga National Park Established in 1925, Virunga National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which has been strongly supported over the years by t...
1 Octubre 2014 El brote de Ébola declarado el pasado agosto en la provincia de Ecuador, en el norte de la República Democrática del Congo (RDC) aún no está bajo control. © Gabriel Casani / MSF L...
Vietnam is one of the most attractive emerging markets for international businesses. Even though growth rates have slowed compared to a few years ago, they still look attractive in a challenging globa...
Ever have a moment when you feel like something extraordinary just happened, a small step that might start something really big?Last Monday I had one of those moments. I read an announcement by the ma...
1 Octubre 2014 Decenas de miles de personas están refugiadas en un campo cerca de Bentiu, uno entre los diferentes campos de "Protección de civiles" administrado por la Misión de la ONU en Sudán d...
European Commission [Check Against Delivery] Andris PIEBALGS European Commissioner for Development Speech - At the meeting of the Sustainable Energy for All Access Committee Brussels, 1 October 2014 F...
LAGOS, Nigeria, 30 September 2014 – Martins, 17 lost his mother to Ebola. At times he also feels like he has lost a part of his life.
¿Cómo puede el crecimiento económico beneficiar a más personas? ¿Qué se necesita para duplicar la proporción de energías renovables en la combinación energética mundial? ¿Tendrá el mundo ...
Algunas buenas noticias La edición de septiembre de 2014 de Alerta sobre precios de los alimentos (i) señala que los precios internacionales de los alimentos han alcanzado su nivel más bajo en c...
Amnistía Internacional tiene en marcha una ciberacción para poner fin al sufrimiento y las muertes en las fronteras
We had only been on the rock next to the melting Nordenskiöld glacier for a few minutes when I looked up and saw a white furry head looking down at me from a cliff 60 meters away.Our polar guide, who...
GAZA, State of Palestine, 29 September 2014 - Ten-year-old Shaima lives in Shuja’iyeh in eastern Gaza City, a crowded neighbourhood now mostly reduced to a vast expanse of rubble. The threat of expl...
An independent judiciary that is free of corruption and external influence is a vital component of a healthy democracy. Yet Transparency International Cambodia’s first National Integrity System asse...
DAMASCUS, Syria, 26 September 2014 – “I love my new school bag,” says Dania*, a fourth grade student at Abdurrahmaan Khazen elementary school in Damascus. As part of a UNICEF back-to-learning ca...
Legal protection for whistleblowers living in the world’s biggest economies, the Group of 20, is patchy at best and needs to be strengthened to bolster the fight against corruption. The good news is...
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.