The United Nations humanitarian wing said today it will need an estimated $35 million in additional funding to continue helping hundreds of thousands of people affected by the ongoing crisis in Libya.
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email European Union member states’ justice and home affairs ministers meeting in Luxembourg should take forward a comprehensive and collective EU response to search and r...
In-depth descriptions of three new Grand Challenges are available online; the application period opens November 4 and will remain open until January 2015.
A group of independent United Nations rights experts today urged the Government of Malaysia to withdraw its Sedition Act of 1948 amid allegations that critics of the country’s authorities have faced...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today is launching a programme that will assist 90,000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as Secretary-General Ban Ki...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The World Bank, international donors, and the government of Haiti should include an emphasis on water and sanitation in schools at the October 9, 2014 donors’ confer...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Mexico’s efforts to address the large number of cases of enforced disappearances and abductions throughout the country in recent years have been marred by inexplica...
Faysal is among more than 170,000 people to have fled to Turkey to escape renewed violence in north Syria, but he fears for family still across the border
The Financial Services for the Poor team is excited to announce our involvement in this year's Grand Challenges, where we are looking to effectively reach women and girls with innovations that simulta...
This week’s launch of the Putting Women & Girls at the Center of Development Grand Challenge is an opportunity to identify new, better ways to reach and empower women.
HERAT, Afghanistan, 7 October 2014 – The temperature is over 37°C (98°F) in this ancient city in western Afghanistan, but the young men standing in line in front of a police recruitment centre don...
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...
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...
Two hours from the city of Kharkiv, dozens of uprooted Ukrainians found themselves reverting to childhood in a corner once reserved for children.
Una mujer camina por un signo de la conciencia del Ebola en Freetown, Liberia. © Tanya Bindra/UNICEF Como lo demuestra la propagación del virus del Ébola en África occidental, la importancia d...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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.