2015 marked the outset of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which, alongside ‘Agenda 2030’ agreed on by the UN General Assembly, put the issue of sustainable...
In 2015, a photo of a Syrian boy found dead on a beach in Turkey after attempting to reach Greece made headlines across the world. Since...
Louisette Fanjamalala, has worked hard all her life, yet, like millions of working poor around the globe, she barely makes enough to survive. Fanjamalala, from Madagascar,...
Rape in all its horrendous forms is a marred and an abhorrent trace of patriarchy and misogyny. The direct victims are majorly women, but the fact...
“This is an urgent signal for action, and the report recommends the directions to follow,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UN Women, said on the...
Educational opportunities in Commonwealth countries should be transformed by a new framework being launched when ministers meet in Fiji. The new resource is designed to make...
It is time to support and invest in women and girls who want to pursue careers in scientific research, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in...
More than one billion women lack legal protection against domestic sexual violence, says new research from the World Bank. The study, Global and Regional Trends in...
What strategies are needed to reach gender parity in international and regional organizations like the United Nations and the OSCE? Some fifty delegates of OSCE participating...
Nearly three in ten young people between the ages of 15 and 24 living in conflict- or disaster-affected countries are illiterate, the United Nations Children’s Fund...
Singer and Actor Wang Junkai, or Karry Wang, best known for his leading role in the box office blockbuster film...
Animals can be beautiful; they can be sleek, graceful, powerful, or just plain adorable, even cuddly. A field of wild...
Traditionally in International Relations the concept of “hard power” remained the basic focus for states so as to achieve power...
Before 1800, just about everybody was poor. You had royalty, you had these huge landowners, but they were a tiny,...
Recognizing that the energy sector lags when it comes to gender diversity, the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and...
The World Bank announced today a new project to finance off-grid solar systems in Yemen to power vital basic services,...
Artificial intelligence (AI), a subset of machine learning, has the potential to drastically impact a nation’s national security in various...