Offences against wildlife are criminal, say UNODC and CITES
Wildlife and forest offences should be recognized as serious transnational organized crimes with the appropriate penalties.
Wildlife and forest offences should be recognized as serious transnational organized crimes with the appropriate penalties.
Invest in the future. Defeat malaria, is the theme of the global campaign for World Malaria Day 2013 and the coming years.
Esther Madudu is one of the many midwives working in the rural areas of Africa who are facing many day to day challenges such as lack of electricity and running water, among other things.
More than one and a half million people have been affected by Sunday’s earthquake which rocked the Sichuan province of China. The earthquake measuring nearly 7 on the Richter scale killed more than 200 so far and 245 thousand have been evacuated.
Gerry Adams reports.
A political solution is crucial to end the crisis in Mali, according to the International Crisis Group (ICG), which is an independent organization committed to resolving conflicts around the world.
Over 30,000 people from the Central African Republic have crossed into the Democratic Republic of the Congo to escape fighting in their country, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
Cancer has always been a health problem in the South East Asia region, says Dr. Christopher Wild who works at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO).
With less than 1,000 days left to reach the 2015 Millennium Development Goals, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown
An interactive dialogue on harmony with nature began the commemoration of International Mother Earth Day 2013 at the United Nations in New York.
The second preparatory conference of the parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) began in Geneva on Monday.