The United Nations General Assembly held secret-ballot elections for the Human Rights Council (HRC) on Friday.  As of 1 January next year, the 18 newly-elect...

UNICEF and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) renewed their commitment to fighting poverty and promoting the health and wellbeing of children and young people ...

Many of us think about the impacts of climate change as something happening only in the distant future. But for Joanna, a superstorm took the lives of her fa...

Girls have long been the subject of photographers’ lens—but they have far less often been the ones behind it. When we set out to document the lives of 18-yea...

India's success in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals can change the face of the world, UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa has sa...

Around 10pm one night in October 2017, in the rain forests of central Sumatra, Feri grabs a hammer, loops it over his shoulder, and scales a tree so massive ...

The Challenge Violence is perhaps the most significant and destructive challenge to the development, growth, wellbeing, and the very survival of countries ar...

With over 826,000 people affected by heavy flooding affecting most of Nigeria, humanitarian agencies continue to step up efforts to provide life-saving assis...

Are synthetic rhino horns an ingenious conservation tool–or a misplaced idea that will make things worse? When 1,028 rhinos were poached in South Africa in 2...

"I can’t read or write but I think education is very important in life." KHARTOUM, Sudan, 28 September 2018 – Bahri market, north Khartoum, bustles with acti...

India is “totally committed” to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) said Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday, addressing the Unite...

The 2018 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Forum convenes business leaders and policy experts from Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union; l...

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) has launched a global initiative which aims to create greener, more liveable cities that will improve t...

The United Nations Secretary-General launched a new partnership strategy with the world’s 1.8 billion young people on Monday, to help put “their ideas into a...

Nyle DiMarco is just a foreigner speaking a different language. That’s how the actor, model and advocate introduces himself to people who have not met a deaf...

Dimiana Nange Clement is a young refugee and a budding farmer. The 11-year-old lives with her family in the Kalobeyei integrated settlement in northern Kenya...

As conflict continues to rage in Yemen, leading to widespread economic hardship and a rampant inflation, the World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm...

In the background, AI is being used in a huge range of settings, from helping to land a plane, to getting a parcel to you more quickly, and deciding whether ...

Do you know much about seaweed farming? No? Well, neither did we until our interest was piqued by a story in The Jakarta Post about a development project in ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) airlifted, through several shipments in August, over 500 tons of essential medicines and medical supplies to Sana’a airpo...