Women and girls can play important role in managing water
Gathering in Stockholm, Sweden this week, people from around the world are talking about water: how to share it, how to keep it clean and for some countries, how to find it.
Gathering in Stockholm, Sweden this week, people from around the world are talking about water: how to share it, how to keep it clean and for some countries, how to find it.
The city of Beira in the eastern part of Mozambique has won an award for putting in place a flood warning system for its approximately 450,000 inhabitants.
Over two thousand participants from more than 100 countries have gathered in Stockholm, Sweden for World Water Week.
The theme of this year’s meeting is Water and Food Security.
The number of Syrians fleeing to Jordan has doubled over the past week, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
Half a million people are killed each year by illegal weapons across the world.
That was a message highlighted at the opening of a UN conference revisiting concerns about the use of small arms and light weapons.
Economic crisis are often the result of over confidence in the economic and financial system, according to economist Carmen Reinhardt of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Townships in Beira city in the eastern part of Mozambique are vulnerable to floods because they are up to 10 metres below sea level.
Thousands of Sudanese refugees living in camps and settlements across South Sudan face alarming health conditions, according to United Nations agencies.
Throughout the world, the traditional lifestyles of indigenous people are threatened by changing times, economic development and poverty.
Tropical storm Isaac hit Haiti over the weekend, killing at least six people including an eight-year-old girl.
The Caribbean nation is still on the mend following the deadly January 2010 earthquake.