Interviews
World Bank highlights new ways to measure and address poverty
The World Bank’s 2018 Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report explores how poverty is changing and introduces new ways to monitor our progress toward ending it. In order to see a more complete picture...
Marine life and World Heritage Sites threatened by rising sea levels and pollution
Coastal World Heritage Sites on the Mediterranean Sea are the latest areas to fall victim to the widespread complications of climate change. A recent UN report found that coastal regions are some of the...
World Food Day – 16 October 2018
Today is World Food Day and the 73rd anniversary of the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation. As one of the most celebrated days in the UN’s calendar, events organised by FAO country...
International Day of Rural Women – 15 October, 2018
Today marks the UN’s International Day of Rural Women, a day first observed in 2008 to recognize the role of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development,...
Ethiopia-Eritrea border sees families reunited after 20 years
A month after its opening, the Ethiopia–Eritrea border is bustling and filled with families that are reuniting, some after almost 20 years. For the last two decades, only soldiers, refugees, and rebels...
Investments into the clean-energy industry could help slow climate change
With global concern for climate change growing exponentially, some people are contributing to slowing climate change by means of investing into the “green” or clean-energy industry. The...
International Day for Disaster Reduction – 13 October 2018
The United Nations’ International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction is annually observed on 13 October to raise the profile of disaster risk reduction. Since its creation in 1989, the global...
UNHCR increases aid to Venezuelan migrants in Colombia
With over 4,000 Venezuelans entering Colombia each day, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) chief Filippo Grandi said Colombia is showing “extraordinary solidarity” towards Venezuelans displaced amid...
Save the Children trains mobile teachers to improve childhood education in Myanmar
Due to civil war and political tension, 75,000 children of the Karen people in Myanmar have missed out on an education, Theirworld report shows. But a new project, created by Save the Children, has been...
Weather and conflict limit Syria’s agricultural production, perpetuating food insecurity
A recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) shows the troubling effects that severe weather and prolonged conflict have had on Syria and the country’s agricultural...
Companies turn their attention to food waste as a way to tackle climate change
With the recent release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change, the need to address climate change is at the forefront of global conversations. Wasteless, an Israeli...
Upcoming winter weather poses threat to refugees around the world
Refugees from Syria, Iraq, and in Greece face the threat of freezing temperatures as winter weather approaches. Many refugee camps lack the supplies, space, and funding to provide the necessary items to...
