Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Bahrain should immediately release the head of the country’s leading political opposition group having failed to present any evidence that justifies his detention, H...
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has today condemned the killing yesterday of a family, as well as the driver of the taxi they were travelling in when the vehicle hit a pre...
Twenty years after 6,434 lost their lives in the Kobe earthquake, the Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, took part yesterday in the official commemoratio...
Three days after the end of the first round of talks under the Libyan political dialogue process, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has today welcomed the unilateral announcements b...
In 2002, global warming denialist and anti-environmental gadfly Bjørn Lomborg consigned the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, to "the dustbin of history." However, 42 years of data now appear to vindi...
Las cifras hablan por sí solas: en América Central 8 millones de personas no tienen acceso al agua potable. Y 12 millones de personas no cuentan con instalaciones e infraestructura para disponer de ...
Las autoridades salvadoreñas deben poner fin a su implacable campaña contra los derechos de las mujeres y liberar inmediatamente a una mujer encarcelada en 2007 tras sufrir un aborto espontáneo. As...
In Benin, a flexible, accelerated course of learning is giving children a second chance at obtaining the formal education that they need to fulfil their dreams. Long-time UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador An...
16 Enero 2015 Alrededor de 20.000 personas se encuentran aisladas en el sur de Malaui por las inundaciones a las que se enfrenta el país en los últimos días. La ayuda llega con mucha lentitud a la ...
Millions of children in northern Nigeria are not receiving a formal education. One way UNICEF is addressing the issue is to help traditional Koranic schools like Maiunguwa Shuaibu’s include basic su...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Dramatic evidence presented at the trial in Chad of 21 former security agents confirms that torture was systematic during the Hissène Habré dictatorship, from 1982 t...
Finding illegal fishing vessels in the vast expanse of the Southern Ocean – over 20 million square kilometers of deep, rough and icy waters – sounds like a near impossible task. But it turns out t...
Despite the bailouts and regulation after the 2008 financial crisis, unethical behaviour at banks has cost shareholders close to US$10 billion over the past two years in the form of fines. No wonder t...
16 Enero 2015 La Oficina de Patentes india rechazó ayer la petición de Gilead para patentar el medicamento sofosbuvir usado para el tratamiento de hepatitis C. © Siddharth Singh El fármaco oral, q...
Undeterred by the government of India trying to halt her speech when she was barred from boarding her flight to London, Greenpeace India campaigner Priya Pillai stuck to her commitment of taking the v...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Bahrain’s allies including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and other European countries should publicly call on Manama to drop charges against the human rights a...
Refugees fleeing the fighting between militants and government forces in north-east Nigeria continue to arrive in Niger and Chad with harrowing tales.
The displacement has been centred around Benghazi, Derna, and near the Gulf of Sidra in Ben Jawad and Ras Lanuf. Some 400,000 people are displaced across Libya.
BAUCHI, Nigeria, 15 January 2015 – As Jamila Nuhu, 25, replaces the cover of the plastic jug she has filled at a hand pump a few minutes’ walk from her home, she remembers how she used to walk lon...
Nueva Delhi. Esto sucedió fuera de un centro comercial de lujo en Gurgaon, un floreciente centro financiero e industrial que se encuentra al sudoeste de la capital de India. Una mujer de 21 años, re...
También disponible en: English Los aterrizajes en Paro (Bhután) implican realizar una maniobra con forma de signo de interrogación y, al mismo tiempo, disminuir la altura rápidamente para evitar q...
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At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we are fully supportive of the government’s vision and we share their ambition. It is in this context that we signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with th...
Amid the onset of winter, UNHCR takes the lead in planning and constructing a new camp, Al Wand 2, in Iraq's Diyala province for some 2,500 people.
The final two months of 2014 saw a surge of positive news for civil society whose collaborative and consolidated efforts over recent years to push for greater corporate transparency measures are now s...
Investigations and surveys by Transparency International Slovakia show that healthcare procurement is considered corrupt in Slovakia, but over the past years only a handful of cases have been formally...
13 Enero 2015 El pasado 3 de enero, el grupo militar islámico Boko Haram lanzó un ataque masivo en Baga, localidad cercana al lago Chad en el Estado de Borno, en el norte de Nigeria. La ofensiva del...
European Commission - Press release Brussels, 12 January 2015 Today, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, presented a new Eurobarometer survey to mark the begin...
European Commission - Speech - [Check Against Delivery] Speech Speech Riga, 09 January 2015 Jean-Claude Juncker President of the European Commission Prime Ministers, Ministers, Commissioners, Members ...
European Commission - Fact Sheet Brussels, 08 January 2015 On 12 January 2010, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake that took 222,750 people's lives, injured many thousands and made 1.5 millio...
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.