About Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, a press briefing is held. Seated from left to right are: Michèle Audette, Senator of Canada; Coralee McGuire-Cyrette, Ontario Native Women’s Association; Bailey Oster, Director of Youth Programs and Services of the Métis Nation of Alberta; and RoseAnne Archibald
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Novgorodske, a typical industrial city in the Donbas, became even poorer. Residents of the city chose to alter the city’s name to New York as the war approached in order to attract help and money from the West. Yet the investments and visitors never came
A large number of Syrian men have migrated to Europe as a result of the deteriorating economic conditions in Iraqi Kurdistan. For the community and the women and kids left behind, this has created unique challenges
Battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the military coup and an ensuing civil war, Myanmar’s school system is in shambles. The number of high school students taking a key exam has plunged 80%, parents, teachers and educational experts say.
On the theme of “Towards the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000),” Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, addresses United Nations Security Council meeting on Women, Peace, and Security
According to Zambian officials, this year’s worst floods in 50 years, which started about four weeks ago, has rendered close to 400,000 people homeless.
On Sunday, when the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, will honor the best in filmmaking, all eyes will be on Hollywood.
Bangladesh inspectors are investigating the cause of a massive fire at a Cox’s Bazar camp that destroyed about 2,000 makeshift homes and left 12,000 homeless over the weekend, an official said Monday.
Chinese authorities in Tibet arrested a woman for contacting Tibetans outside the western autonomous region amid an increase in surveillance and security searches before a politically sensitive anniversary, a Tibetan with knowledge of the situation said.
United Nations Security Council meeting is briefed on the situation in the Sudan and South Sudan by Tareq Talahma, the acting director of the operations and advocacy division in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs