Development

News Hour: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, roughly 400 million people around the world do not have access to any essential health services, and many families in low- and middle-income...

News Hour: UNICEF on July 15 appointed Indian-origin Canadian YouTube star Lilly Singh as its newest and youngest Global Goodwill Ambassador at a special event here. Lilly was in the capital to support UNICEF’s Youth4Change initiative,...

News Hour: The Government of Ukraine adopted a new State Migration Strategy Wednesday (12 July), which will inform national migration policy for the next eight years. The new document was developed to replace Ukraine’s 2011 State...

News Hour: Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell is reporting to jail at 4 p.m. yesterday in upstate New York after he was sentenced to a week behind bars for taking part in a nonviolent protest against a...

News Hour: Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, and Sameh Wahba, Director of the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice of the World Bank, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at UNESCO Headquarters to reinvigorate...

News Hour: IOM, the UN Migration Agency, was invited by Ecuador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility to participate in the first working session on the Foreign Policy Agenda of Ecuador 2017-2021, which focused on...

News Hour: An agreement has done between Brazil & IOM Haiti to extend Humanitarian Visa Application Centers for more visa assistance for Haiti people who want a visa for Humanitarian need. The Brazil Visa Application Centre...

News Hour: A senior level working group meeting is finalizing a 5-year strategy for promoting safe and environment-friendly agro-based value chains (2018-2022) for the Greater Mekong subregion (GMS). The 14th Annual Meeting of the Working Group...

News Hour: Britain is sending lifesaving aid to help the people of Mosul rebuild their homes, their city and their lives, International Development Secretary Priti Patel announced today. This follows the declaration of Mosul’s liberation after...

News Hour: Human rights, social cohesion and international cooperation are the focus of recommendations that IOM, the UN Migration Agency, made to the Estonian Government. Estonia has now taken the helm of the Presidency of the...