CHINA

Food as carrot

In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?

Resetting the Africa-Europe Relationship

Africa faces a broad range of development challenges and overcoming them will require huge sums of foreign aid and investment. But as Africa …

Cutting emissions

With contributions from corporations and developed nations, the World Bank launches a programme for developing countries to invest in cleaner …

Blending green concerns into market economy

GERMAN environment minister Klaus Topfer has come under fire for his tough green laws such as the one against packaging. Environmental ministries,…

Public good, private concerns

Odisha is becoming a testing ground for ADB’s aggressive water sector reforms

Empower civil society

Arsenic cleanup

SOUTH AFRICA

UNITED NATIONS

Big brother

WSSD clearly illustrated the hatred of the US' bullying tactics

8 million women and girls require urgent humanitarian aid in Ukraine amid 2 years of conflict

Gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence and human trafficking, has surged: UN Women

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How global and local experience would play out in WTO top job

Okonjo-Iweala would be in a position to use her multifaceted experiences to energise the WTO’s 164 members to work harder to achieve the …

The great Western aid trick

Countries donate on condition that recipient nations buy goods from them, shows a report

Forced resettlement violates people's rights

The UN Commission on Human Rights adopts a resolution that will have direct bearing on the controversial Narmada clam in Gujarat.

Panel to smooth North-South squabbles on GEF

A special committee is being set up to solve clashes between the industrialised and developing countries over national and international gains in …

Busan meet to decide how to make international aid effective, transparent

India and China, two emerging economic powers, may also be included under the aid effectiveness strategy now

EU's helping hand

Stormwater channels

Banking on water

The Union government earmarks Rs 500 crore for augmentation of traditional water sources

Sanctions due to whaling

Eco-wisdom

Two Tamil Nadu Villages protect their natural wealth and prosper

Playing it cheap

Rich nations refuse to contribute funds to clean the planet of lethal organic pollutants

In court

Towards zero hunger in Africa: 5 steps to achieve food security

Without transformative change like the Asian Green Revolution, African food systems will continue to impede human development