The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is augmenting an existing facility and reshaping a second to help countries worst hit by the food and fuel...

The impact of climate change could fall disproportionately on women and children, UNICEF cautioned today, on the occasion of World Health Day 2008. ...

With soaring food prices expected to continue for the foreseeable future, the World Bank is calling for a “new deal” of long-term measures, ranging...

More HIV-positive children and pregnant women are receiving treatment but there is still a long way to go before the promise of an AIDS-free...

The countries and contexts highlighted by MSF on this year's list accounted for just 18 minutes of coverage on the three major U.S....

The world has the technical ability but lacks the political will to eliminate global hunger, a scourge afflicting one in eight people that is as...

For the first time in history, the Siemens Competition, formerly the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition, was won by two females. The competition,...

On the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the adoption of the convention on the Rights of the Child,  Ishmeal Beah, an author and former child...

In a January report, Save the Children UK - one of the more vocal non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on humanitarian financing reforms -...

The Vice-President and Secretary of State for Women Affairs, has informed the 62nd General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) about the...