Forestry Award honours late Kenyan environmental pioneer Wangari Maathai
Nominations will close on 20 July for the first ever Wangari Maathai Award.
Nominations will close on 20 July for the first ever Wangari Maathai Award.
An estimated 600 thousand people in Timor-Leste turned out on the 7th of July to make their voices heard in the 2012 Parliamentary vote.
The polling started in the wee hours of the morning throughout the country. Gerry Adams reports.
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The former president of Botswana says maybe he could have done more to decriminalize laws that hamper AIDS progress.
If you’re feeling short of a little cash, here are a few ideas to earn a bit extra – you can rent out your forehead as advertising space, worth over $700.00; you can serve as a human guinea pig in a drug safety trial -- over $7,000.00 for that one; or what about fighting in Somalia or Afghanistan
Sexual and physical attacks, emotional abuse, humiliation, rejection, neglect.
These and other forms of violence are more likely to be suffered by disabled children, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The end of conflict does not always mean peace has arrived. That is one of the reasons the United Nations created its Peacebuilding Commission.
Approximately 220,000 people have been newly displaced in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of insecurity stemming from movements by the M23 rebel group.
It took more than a decade, but a group of families are finally returning to Tanzania, after living in exile in Somalia.
A groundbreaking meeting underway in London on Wednesday aims to support women's and girls’ right to choose whether, when and how many children they will have.
Unemployment in the Eurozone could reach almost 22 million over the next four years, says a new report from the International Labour Organization.