Our world has witnessed unprecedented levels of economic development. The advance of our technological capabilities continues ...

Localization refers to the process of empowering local actors—NGOs, community-based organizations and local governments—to ...

The growing gender gap between men and women is reflected not only in the world’s highest political hierarchies but also in the daily social and economic lives—with most women fighting a losing battle ...

Climate justice recognizes differential impacts of climate crisis between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger ...

The effects of El Niño on agriculture in Central America are once again putting pressure on thousands of small farmer families who are feeling more vulnerable economically and in terms of food, as ...

Sudan has been plunged into a deadly cholera outbreak in the midst of the Sudanese Civil War. Sudan is currently home to an approximate 15 million people, many of which have had to bear the brunt of ...

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.

Since the establishment of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) category in 1971, the international community has worked hand in hand to support its most vulnerable members. For decades, the countries ...

As foreign donors drag their feet on injecting badly needed cash into the government’s coffers, local analysts are increasingly worried that this will affect implementation of key development projects ...

As international leaders gathered at the United Nations in the middle of September to address plans to eradicate global poverty, the Bush administration notified Congress that it will withhold the U.S ...

The future seems virtually bleak, particularly if current trends continue, when over 582 million people will be chronically ...

The Pacific Community’s PROTÉGÉ Project is striving to advance climate resilient development through protecting and better managing biodiversity ...