The world’s 48 least developed countries (LDCs) have experienced some positive developments, yet challenges remain with new risks and uncertainties threatening development gains, according to a new ...
Close to 300,000 migrants and refugees have reached Europe between the start of this year and mid-September, with most of them entering through Greece and Italy, according to an update from the Intern...
Highlighting that the number of pledges to relocate asylum-seekers continues to be woefully low and its implementation slow and challenging, the United Nations refugee agency today called on European ...
The Justice Department on September 8 announced that it is dropping its corruption case against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen. Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court de...
First-generation college student, Danie Korac, reflects on her journey and the obstacles she has overcome to get where she is today.
SOSSUSVLEI, Namibia, 12 September 2016 – Thirteen years ago, Jeanette Swartbooi, 38, relocated to Sossusvlei, in the middle of the Namib Desert. This move was in response to a breakthrough in employ...
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While Ibrahim Al-Hussein did not make it through to the final of the 100 metre freestyle, competing at the 2016 Paralympic Games was a "dream come true."
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador heads top cast in exclusive Facebook film to promote UN Refugee Agency's #WithRefugees campaign.
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Ibrahim Al-Hussein leads Independent Paralympic Athletes Team into the Maracanã Stadium behind the flag of the International Paralympic Committee.
About this series More blog posts [[tweetable]]Cada año, alrededor de medio millón de personas son víctimas de homicidios intencionales[[/tweetable]]. Esto significa que se pierde una vida cada min...
We’re not there yet. As the limos leave Hanghzou and life gets back to normal in a city quarantined for the G20 summit, the leaders of the G20 countries are taking home a new set of prescriptions fo...
Give yourself a massive pat on the back! After constant pressure from cat, tuna and ocean lovers alike, calling on global food giant Mars, and its brand Whiskas, to face up to human rights abuses in ...
ATHENS, Greece, 6 September 2016 – Word finally came after months of anxious waiting from her father, Kasem Alsabsabi, in Bebra, Hessen, Germany – he had arrived, had an operation, was on radiothe...
Today’s average college student is no longer 18, living on campus, and going to school full-time. Rather, the majority of students work while going to college, 40 percent are 25 or older, one-third ...
With their hands up in the air, ministers, four-star generals and International Olympic Commission (IOC) officials danced to some of the most famous samba tunes at the closing ceremony of the Olympics...
How a small group of fishermen and consumers are creating an alternative marketplace for locally caught fish.Antonis is a low impact fisherman from Lesvos. He has been fishing since he was a child. In...
The Amazon is being burned. Here’s what you need to know.From July to November, it is fire season in the Amazon rainforest. But while fires can be a normal part of the life cycle in forests, most of...
If you gave a box with 400 LEGO pieces to a group of children, you’d get back some amazing creations. When the Gates Foundation, the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) la...
GWOZA/KONDUGA, Borno, Nigeria, 29 August 2016 – The Mandara mountains appear ominously on the horizon through the cockpit window. Clouds hang over the ridge that cuts across Nigeria’s north-east b...
European Commission - Statement Brussels, 1 August 2016 We have signed today an agreement on €50 million support from the EU's "African Peace Facility" to the Lake Chad Basin Commission Multi-Nation...
European Commission - Press release Brussels, 22 July 2016 The first report based on the new "EU International Cooperation and Development Results Framework" provides a selection of results achieved i...
European Commission - Fact Sheet Brussels, 22 July 2016 EU International Cooperation and Development Results Report: Questions and Answers What is in the report? The report draws on the results of the...
En 2015, Canadá y el BID reflejan años de colaboración
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.