UN envoy for Somalia praises election of country’s new president
After decades of conflict, the new parliament of Somalia has elected the country’s next president.
The election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud ends Somalia’s transitional period.
After decades of conflict, the new parliament of Somalia has elected the country’s next president.
The election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud ends Somalia’s transitional period.
For centuries in one community in India, people have defecated in the street. Now, that community is working to change sanitation and hygiene practices. And the initiative is being led by children!
Charles Appel has more.
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Every year, three million girls and women across the globe are genitally mutilated.
Female genital mutilation (FGM), a procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, is practiced in many countries around the world.
India and China have enjoyed some of the world's fastest economic growth in recent years.
Since 1995, average income in China grew nearly ten-fold and in India, it has nearly quadrupled.
The on-going conflict in Syria and its effect on civilians is one of the key issues on the agenda of the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on Monday.
A successful suicide is completed every 40 seconds of every day, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
UN Habitat just concluded a week-long meeting in Naples, Italy where world leaders gathered to talk about the future of the world’s cities.
The Philippines was the second country to ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Uruguay was the first country to do so in June of 2012.
A group of HIV-infected mothers and their partners have formed a mothers’ support group attached to their local health clinic in Kitulo Ward, Makete District in Tanzania.
World leaders have called for eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
While the global number of child labourers has fallen in recent years, experts fear that the global economic crisis could retard further growth.