Development

News Hour: IOM last week renewed its cooperation agreement with the Nairobi-based African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). Speaking at the signing ceremony at APHRC, IOM Southern Africa Regional Director Josiah Ogina said: “This agreement...

News Hour: IOM Kuwait has launched a study on the effects of social networks on Kuwait’s labour market. The launch also doubled as a consultation for 15 government officials from the country’s Public Authority for Manpower...

News Hour: UN Special Envoy for El Niño and Climate, Mary Robinson, is on a three-day trip to Ethiopia with Concern Worldwide, Trocaire and Goal Global at the moment. Ethiopia is currently facing its worst drought...

News Hour: Transparency International, the global anti-corruption group, will examine transparency levels of emerging market companies in a new study to be released on Monday, 11 July 2016. Now in its second edition, Transparency in Corporate...

CEO of BNNRC Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman who is also a celebrity community media policy advocate and journalist has been selected for the second time as one of the member in a jury panel in...

News Hour: Under suitably somber skies, a few hundred students, staff and faculty gathered on Sproul Plaza on Tuesday to mourn the death, and celebrate the life, of Tarishi Jain, the Berkeley student killed in last...

News Hour: At the occasion of the third Western Balkans Summit, today in Paris, AEDH, EuroMed Rights and the FIDH denounce the complete denial by the head of States in relation to the issue of the...

News Hour: The Observatory, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) strongly condemn the sentencing today of KCTU President Mr. Sang-gyun Han to an unprecedented five years in prison and...

News Hour: Reform of Vietnam’s land administration services got a boost today with the approval by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors of a $150 million credit for the Vietnam Improved Land Governance and Database...

News Hour: A new study looks at the status of women in China’s forest sector reform and highlights the need to integrate the gender perspective in the reform policies in order to improve women’s access to...