In a significant move to address the challenges faced by people with disabilities and the elderly, six Egyptian parliamentary ...

Children in northern Syria are suffering from hunger, illness, and malnutrition as a result of poverty and poor living ...

Bronisław Malinowski (1884 – 1942) did for several years conduct socio-anthropological research in the Trobriand Islands. Returning to England after World War I, he wrote several ground breaking books ...

Food waste has been a pressing concern for environmentalists and humanitarians for decades. The Food and Agriculture ...

Last month, world leaders agreed on a pioneering Pact for the Future. This global accord offers much hope for the poorest and ...

While Kenya's Mung Bean Bill has moved to mediation, farmers are battling the fallout from the widespread distribution of ...

As Israel continues its siege on the southern borders of Lebanon, concerns among humanitarian organizations grow as the ...

A few years ago, Bernardo Olivera moved to Posadas, the capital of the Argentinean province of Misiones, to study mathematics ...

The Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave recently generated international discussion about the barbarity of slavery, but it is not alone in the attempt to break the silence around the 400 years of the ...

Flowers burst out of old tires and rows of pepper plants fill recycled plastic tubs as herbs pop out of old pipes. As utilitarian as it is cheery, this rooftop array is one of several urban ...

A holistic approach and transformative change of systems are needed to tackle biodiversity loss and to put the world on a ...

Seventy years after the brutal and militarily unwarranted atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, a nuclear weapons free world is far from within reach.