Quake "shows why countries must prepare for worst"
Time “is running out” to help people trapped in the rubble nearly 48 hours after a massive earthquake struck the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, UN experts said Tuesday.
Time “is running out” to help people trapped in the rubble nearly 48 hours after a massive earthquake struck the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, UN experts said Tuesday.
Indigenous peoples can play a critical role in the fight against hunger, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Women in 250 villages in Pakistan provide literally the light of their communities.
They have been trained to operate solar lanterns which they then rent to their neighbours, thus allowing the women to earn an income while providing a much-needed service.
A political vacuum leading to a “climate of paranoia” helps encourage religious persecution and violence.
That’s according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Heiner Bielefeldt.
Europe can’t be divided and leave refugees to fend for themselves in winter, said the president of the European Union on Sunday night.
Negotiations aimed at ending the bloodshed in Yemen will soon get underway, aimed at restoring peace to the beleaguered country.
A surge in attacks has been reported against people with albinism in several African countries in the run-up to national elections, a UN human rights expert has warned.
Coffee farming is helping indigenous people in the Philippines to protect the environment, preserve their ancestral lands and secure their financial future.
The political dynamics in the areas that once made up the former Yugoslavia remain “extremely complicated”.
Poverty has fallen dramatically in Belarus, but some groups remain vulnerable, particularly single-parent households, families with more than three children and the elderly.