Amal Clooney, Barrister, addresses United Nations Security Council meeting on women and peace and security, with a focus on sexual violence in conflict
The study commissioned by the U.N. Development Program found that if the war ends this year, it will have caused economic losses of $88.8 billion. If the conflict lasts until 2030, it would leave 71 percent of the population in extreme poverty, 84 percent malnourished and cause economic losses of $657 billion
For most people, learning a different language is a choice. But for students at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, learning how to communicate in their selected region is a requirement
An animal orphanage in Zimbabwe is one of the organizations leading efforts to ensure poaching and other factors do not entirely destroy wildlife in the southern African nation
Researchers from Stony Brook University in New York state compared adolescents’ responses about their use of such substances against urine samples taken from the teenagers
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a native of the industrial southeastern city of Kriviy Rih, carried every region of Ukraine but Lviv in the west, a cradle of Ukrainian nationalism where Poroshenko beat him by nearly 30 percent.
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, chairs the interactive dialogue of the General Assembly on harmony with nature in commemoration of International Mother Earth Day
The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule and has since worked to promote religious and cultural autonomy for his people
Today as we observe World Immunization Week, we’re going to focus on a disease that could be eradicated from the earth, just like smallpox was, and as just as international programs are doing with polio. But instead this deadly disease is making a comeback
Nigeria’s women’s football team, the Super Falcons, dominate the African Women’s Championship – winning 9 out of 11 recognized titles. But the players complain of low salaries, delayed paychecks, and being treated as second class players to the men’s team