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...
Bangladesh’s women have made progress in various aspects of health, education, and work, but still face sizable gender gaps, according to a new report from the...
When I was a child, my father, Captain Cousteau, an explorer and oceanographer, sometimes scolded me for my behaviour or actions that had an unfortunate outcome....
The beliefs and practices that revolve around menstruation differ across societies. In some cultures, the menstruating women are victimised due to the regressive attitudes that exist...
Across Africa, the impact of marital death and divorce falls more heavily on women, who may be excluded socially and lose their home and property after...
Last November Goodenough College and The Royal Commonwealth Society brought together four experts to discuss and debate the role that education can play in putting youth...
Close to 10 years after its first edition, a fully updated International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education published today by UNESCO advocates quality comprehensive sexuality education...
At YouthBank Romania young people take all the crucial decisions about how to raise funds and which sustainable development projects to back. The programme, an offshoot...
On Monday, May 21st, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out a dozen demands upon Iran’s Government — demands...
Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would...
Not even a month after Mark Zuckerberg’s grilling at the US House of Representatives, Facebook is announcing a partnership with...
Conventional wisdom has it that China stands to benefit from the US withdrawal from the 2015 international nuclear agreement with...
Back in the year 1958, the kingdom of Morocco become the second African country to recognize the People’s Republic of...
The official history of the Iraq’s oil began when a well at Baba Gurgur just north of Kirkuk was struck...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$150 million loan today to improve the capacity and reliability of...