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Malaysian Ship With Aid For Rohingyas Arrives in Bangladesh
A Malaysian NGO’s aid ship carrying food and emergency supplies for Rohingya Muslims arrives at the port in Yangon, Myanmar February 9, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun Dhaka: A Malaysian aid ship...
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Rights Group Alleges That Pakistan Has ‘Forced’ Afghan Refugees to Return
Human Rights Watch has described the treatment of Afghans in Pakistan as “a toxic combination of deportation threats and police abuses” An Afghan family, who were living as refugees in Pakistan,...
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Four Famines Mean 20 Million May Starve in the Next Six Months
An eight-year-old malnourished boy lies on a bed in the emergency ward of a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen September 27, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah Geneva: More than 20 million people – greater...
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The GDP Obsession Needs to Go to Counter Populist Policies
The world needs an alternative system, measuring economic value in face of the dissatisfaction that brought Donald Trump to the White House. Pro-Trump supporters in Manhattan. The new US president...
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UN Wants to Negotiate with US, Canada to Resettle Rohingya Refugees
Rohingya refugee children look on at Leda Unregistered Refugee Camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, February 15, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain Cox’s Bazaar: The UN’s refugee agency has asked...
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New UN Team Aims to Bring Syria War Crimes to Court
Women carry newborn babies while reacting after they were evacuated by the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters from an ISIS controlled neighbourhood of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, August...
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Trump Supports Two-State Solution, Says Nikki Haley at UN
Newly appointed US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley presents her credentials to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at UN headquarters in New York City, US, January 27, 2017. Credit: Reuters UN: US...
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When Ideas of Peace Meet Politics of Conflict
Research by an expert shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet African “realities and politics on the ground.” United Nations...
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Lessons for Colombia From Countries That Have Sought Peace
What can Colombia can learn from other nations’ transitions, both successful and unsuccessful, from war to peace? Thousands rally for peace in Colombia. Credit: John Vizcaino/Reuters After 55 years of...
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China to Suspend Coal Imports From North Korea
An employee walks between front-end loaders which are used to move coal imported from North Korea at Dandong port in the Chinese border city of Dandong, Liaoning province December 7, 2010. Credit:...
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Myanmar Soldiers Injured in Clash With Militants in Rakhine
Children recycle goods from the ruins of a market which was set on fire at a Rohingya village outside Maugndaw in Rakhine state, Myanmar, October 27, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun Yangon: Two...
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US Senators Plan New Sanctions Against Iran After Missile Test
US senator Lindsey Graham attends the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 19, 2017. Credit: Reuters Munich: US Republican senators plan to introduce legislation to impose...
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Bangladesh Calls for Efforts to Curb Rohingya Influx
Rohingya refugees collect aid supplies including food and medicine, sent from Malaysia at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 15, 2017. Credit: Mohammad Ponir...
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Russian UN Envoy Dies Suddenly in New York
Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin speaks during a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York September 2, 2015. Credit: Brendan McDermid/Reuters Moscow: Russia’s combative ambassador...
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Health Ministry Kit for Adolescents: Same-Sex Attraction Normal, Boys Can Cry
The health ministry’s ‘Saathiya Resource Kit’ for adolescents represents a glimmer of hope in a country that criminalises homosexuality. The health ministry hopes that 1.6 lakh adolescents across the...
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North Korean Coal Ban Cripples Chinese Border Towns
Mostly empty apartment blocks are seen in the New Area of Dandong, Liaoning province, China, February 21, 2017. Credit: Brenda Goh/Reuters Dandong, China: As Beijing tightens its grip on trade with...
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Around the Globe, People With Disabilities Face Unseen Discrimination
It’s past time to dismantle the (often invisible) barriers that keep people with disabilities less healthy, employed and educated than other groups worldwide. People with disabilities face physical...
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Millions at Risk From African Famine Worsened by Boko Haram, Says UN
The participants to the Oslo Humanitarian Conference on Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region pose for a family photo in Oslo, Norway February 24, 2017. Credit: Haakon Mosvold Larsen/Reuters Oslo: Aid...
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IMF Prescriptions Have Crippled West African Health Systems
West African health systems were weak before the IMF got involved. Sadly, the policy reforms demanded by the IMF in exchange for loans have undermined governments’ ability to repair these problems. The...
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Focus on Temperature Ignores Other Ways to Take Earth’s Pulse
We need international agreement on a set of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ and how to measure them. Reliance on just temperature goals won’t do. An artist’s impression of ice age Earth at glacial maximum....
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