As ongoing violence and conflicts continue to grip the warming planet, the number of people worldwide forced to flee their homes this year is on…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
GENEVA— The U.N. refugee agency warns the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes is likely to exceed 60 million in 2015. The UNHCR…
Europe, the small tail end peninsula of the great Euro-Asian land mass, gears up to receive the brunt of a mass migration of peoples from…
Is the world really overpopulated, or are humans just utilizing resources at an unsustainable rate in irresponsible fashion? Debate persists, but what is known is…
Democracy is on the retreat and authoritarianism is on the rise in more than 96 of the U.N.’s 193 member states, according to a new…
As wars and persecution escalate worldwide, one out of every 122 people on the planet is a refugee, seeking asylum, or internally displaced, the Office…
On April 22, Reuters reported that the Congolese government is accusing Rwandan troops of crossing into the Democratic Republic of the Congo and wounding a local soldier.…
It’s called the urban survival gap – fuelled by the growing inequality between rich and poor in both developing and developed countries – and it…
Ask a particularly extreme proponent of the free market how they see the future, and they might conjure up schools run by Coca-Cola and education…
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has published a report that ranks countries according to how well they protect the rights of workers. The Global…
It is much easier to rule over those people who have lost all their dignity. There is no reason to fear resistance where cynical consumerism,…
It has been claimed that if all terrorists are not Arabs or Muslims, that most terrorists are Arabs or Muslims. Is this true or another…