Stagnation in the proportion of women in the workplace and women’s declining representation in politics, coupled with greater inequality in access to health and education, offset...
Climate change affects women more profoundly than men. Often, women bear the brunt of extreme weather events because they lack economic, political and legal power, especially...
Young people matter. Not just because they can be powerful constituencies to recruit or consumers to develop. They matter in their own right and their growth...
Three years ago, world leaders committed to take effective measures to end modern slavery by 2030. By the best estimates, there are around 40.3 million people...
Sex and student debt are viewed as two inevitable facets of university-student life. Kingston University’s Dr. Ron Roberts writes about the disturbing connections between these two...
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, recently received a lot of hate on the same platform after his visit to India. On his visit, he formally met...
Child marriage will cost African countries tens of billions of dollars in lost earnings and human capital, says a new World Bank report launched ahead of...
I have a story to tell the world about the importance of education. I was born in a remote village in Madhupurupazilla, under Tangail district, Bangladesh....
For the third consecutive year, the number of those chronically hungry has increased in Latin America and the Caribbean, while 250 million – 60 percent of...
Eight areas of scientific research with the potential to have the greatest impact on life on earth are today highlighted with the publication of the World...
Across Africa, where less than a third of the population has access to broadband connectivity, achieving universal, affordable, and good...
So, mother, like Johannesburg, you cut me in deep, imaginative and raw ways. A cut from you was a project....
The polar oceans are among the most rapidly changing oceans in the world. The yearly cycle of the build-up and...
With a high-level informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of US, India, Japan and Australia on the side lines of...
At the end of September, the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), led by the former Chancellor – the 33-year-old “political prodigy”...
Qatar has announced sweeping reforms to its labour market, with a view to ending the kafala system and marking a...
The United States Department of Commerce’s decision to blacklist 28 Chinese public safety organizations and commercial entities hit at some...