The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon today urged maximum restraint after two Israeli soldiers were wounded in the Shaba’a area as a result of an improvised explosive device, and Israel r...
The United Nations General Assembly today discussed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s report on the work of the Organization, which covers a range of issues and calls for renewed efforts to address pe...
The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq is more than a crisis of food and shelter, it is a “crisis of spirit” that requires urgent action from the international community, the Deputy Unit...
In Colorado's Montezuma-Cortez School District, two school leaders developed a peer coaching model which helped leverage teachers’ knowledge in new ways.
European Commission Press release Brussels, 7 October 2014 The European Union is scaling up its response to the Ebola disease in West Africa with an airlift operation to the affected countries. The Eu...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan should delay the execution of five men convicted in a badly flawed trial following the gang rape of four women in Paghman distric...
The Berlin wall was a symbol of the Soviet era like no other. When it was finally dismantled in 1989 it signalled the end of a system that had stood for nearly 70 years. A system that shaped the polit...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email At least seven people have been forcibly disappeared or gone missing in Crimea since May 2014, including two on September 27. (Berlin) – At least seven people have b...
Our first Grand Challenge on gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment signals a more concerted push to put women and girls at the center of our work.
Two hours from the city of Kharkiv, dozens of uprooted Ukrainians found themselves reverting to childhood in a corner once reserved for children.
6 Octubre 2014 Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) confirma que uno de sus miembros internacionales en Sierra Leona ha resultado diagnosticado con fiebre hemorrágica Ébola. Trabajadores de MSF en Sierra Le...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Two recent policy statements bring the United States closer to aligning its policy with the 1997 treaty banning landmines, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing a q...
The Grand Challenges community isn’t just open to scientists. It is open to everyone because we want to encourage new ways of thinking about the biggest challenges, irrespective of credentials or ex...
Transparency International Czech Republic has been monitoring campaign financing in the eight largest Czech cities and the results are not good. They show that nearly one-third of the parties monitore...
6 Octubre 2014 El pasado sábado 4 de octubre Médicos Sin Fronteras recibió con gran satisfacción una noticia: el Ministerio de Sanidad francés confirmó la recuperación de la trabajadora de MSF ...
That's the question lawyers were arguing about in Luxembourg last week. It is a case where Greenpeace is challenging the approval of up to €1.6 billion in aid to Spain's coal industry.Spain is a pos...
This weekend, something truly amazing happened. In more than 30 countries, and as many as 160 cities, more than 20,000 people took to the streets to make a strong and diverse call to save the Arctic, ...
N’DJAMENA, Chad, 3 October 2014 – Last summer, I traveled with a UNICEF production team to Tédjou, a small town in eastern Chad with a mix of arid and green landscapes, in the region of Dar Sila....
But the grants are under threat due to a funding shortage, which could force the World Food Programme to cut the subsidies at the end of the month.
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.