Development

News Hour: The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, will visit Malawi next week at a time when the country is facing its worst food security crisis in decades. Ms....

News Hour: To mark this year’s World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the Government of Ghana this week launched an information campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking. The campaign will run through the end of...

News Hour: IOM and its partners the Colombian Consulate in Buenos Aires, the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Colombia Nos Une programme, and the National University of Tres de Febrero’s Institute of Migration Policies and Asylum...

News Hour: Following four days of bloody clashes between rival forces in South Sudan, which has left close to 300 people dead, at least 42,000 displaced and tens of thousands facing critical food and water shortages,...

News Hour: Save the Children and Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) today applauded the funding levels for maternal and child health, migration & refugee assistance and several other accounts provided by the U.S. House of...

Tanzina Nitol: “I didn’t like school at all. My parents and the neighbourhood tried to get me involved but I never went because the other children made fun of me and I didn’t like to study.”...

Tanzina Nitol: When Kajal was a baby, a sudden attack of untreated fever left her legs immobile.  Unable to handle this pressure, on top of the extreme poverty they were already suffering from, Kajal’s father fled. ...

Tanzina Nitol: “Not many women can attain a supervisory position in the food industry,” says Suma Begum with a sparkle in her eye. “Both employers and family members intervene to restrict them.” Currently working as an...

News Hour: The establishment of a National Human Resource Development Fund (NHRDF) was confirmed in Bangladesh on May 14th 2016 by the A.B.M. Khorshed Alam, CEO, National Skills Development Council Secretariat, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment,...

News Hour: Researchers announced Wednesday they have discovered a ferocious meat-eating dinosaur in Argentina, notable for having short arms like the T-rex but hailing from a different branch of the family tree, reports BSS. The Gualicho...