While raising children is a major responsibility and protracted undertaking for couples, it becomes markedly more demanding and often onerous for lone parents. Children raised…
Millennium Development Goals
Jeffrey Smith Internationally renowned anti-GMO author/filmmaker Jeffrey Smith's meticulous research documents how biotech companies continue to mislead legislators and safety officials to put the health…
Myanmar held elections early November as the capstone of a wider range of “reforms” it has undertaken as an apparent means of escaping decades of…
For 70 years, UNICEF has been on the front lines of the defense of children’s rights in every region of the world. The organization was…
One of the long standing patterns in economies showing economic growth is longer life spans, and falls are see the result of severe distress and…
The UN Sustainable Development Summit last week projected a new set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the next 15 years to replace the…
UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster. At…
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…
Declining oil and commodity prices impact states in Africa and the Middle East 2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were scheduled…
Conflict in Yemen has triggered food insecurity in the poverty-stricken country. The Food and Agriculture Organisation said recently: Amidst escalating conflict at a crucial time…
Activists from around the world will defy the terrorists to attend the World Social Forum in Tunis on March 25, determined to make the occasion a beacon…
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 2015 (IPS) - The growing economic inequalities between rich and poor – and the lopsided concentration of wealth and power in the…