Development

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $300 million loan to support the Philippine government’s effort to expand financial services across the country, especially among entrepreneurs, small businesses, farmers, workers, and individuals,...

The Australian government said it is considering options including targeted sanctions on Myanmar in response to the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s report regarding last year’s atrocities against Rohingya people in Rakhine state. “The Australian Government condemns in...

Violence in northwest Syria has displaced more than 30,000 people this month alone, the United Nations said Monday, warning that a looming assault could create the century’s “worst humanitarian catastrophe”. Idlib province and adjacent rural areas...

Ongoing international dialogues and actions to support the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals sheltered in Bangladesh need to be stronger to ensure a safe and meaningful future for the more than 500,000 children from this community. The...

Bangladesh will be nominated as a member of the WHO Executive Board at Geneva Headquarters for a 3-year period beginning from 2019. The information was disclosed at the 71st Regional Committee Meeting of the Health Ministers...

Following claims that Syrian government forces are preparing an attack on Idlib, aid agencies CAFOD and SCIAF have joined calls damning an attack which would cause vast human suffering for the millions of civilians trapped in...

The UN Migration Agency (IOM) has co-organized a second regional forum bringing together non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to discuss cross-border cooperation to combat human trafficking in Central and South Asia....

A workshop to support the implementation of the new World Bank Environmental and Social Framework kicked off on Tuesday, August 28 in Jakarta. The workshop brought together Indonesian government representatives, civil society organizations and development partners, and...

UK aid will protect thousands of vulnerable men, women and children in Nigeria from modern slavery and unsafe migration through innovative prevention work such as public information campaigns, awareness raising at schools and universities, and new...

At the request of the Government of Chile, IOM, the UN Migration Agency has opened the first Visa Service Centre for Chile (CAVC) in Haiti, to help Haitian migrants find legal pathways to the South American...