Tajikistan launches new methodology to measure poverty

The World Bank and the Tajikistan government have been jointly collecting, analysing and reporting high-quality poverty data

World Food Day: Preserving food diversity vital to achieve zero hunger by 2030

Increasing production of staple crops such as wheat, rice and maize cannot meet the rising food demand. That is why we need to fall back on …

Seeing through Big Tobacco’s smokescreen

Government leaders must be prepared to demonstrate their commitment to protecting people from heart and lung disease by supporting stronger …

World Bank sets up commission on poverty

Commission to present its report by April 2016

Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk

A 2018 workshop classified Shark Bay as being in the highest category of vulnerability to future climate change. 

WHO launches new five-year plan for universal health coverage

This three-point strategy aims at ensuring that 1 billion people get health coverage, are better protected from emergencies and enjoy wellbeing …

WHO stresses on universal health coverage at its 71st assembly

The six-day World Health Assembly kicked off in Geneva on Monday

Earth's wildernesses are disappearing, and not enough of them are World Heritage-listed

Wilderness areas are vitally important, yet are largely overlooked by the United Nations' list of Natural World Heritage

Seychelles launches world’s first sovereign blue bond

Proceeds from the bond will include support for the expansion of marine protected areas, improved governance of priority fisheries and the …

Paraguay now malaria-free

The country has worked on eliminating the disease for more than five decades and finally found success

Mein Kampf struggles free

Hitler's autobiographical manifesto of his National Socialism has come out of copyright

Delivering business

What the increase in caesarean operations worldwide tells us about the science and politics of birthing

'There is a need to introduce climate-smart agriculture in Africa'

In the southern African region, lack of sufficient rainfall led to failed harvests

Depression, an invisible burden for TB patients; and we must urgently address this

The risk of people with mental disorders being prone to developing TB has often been overlooked

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World Bank staff calls for ‘open’ system of presidential selection

The move comes even as the global body called for nominations to select a new president after Jim Yong Kim resigned recently

Wide differences in antibiotic use between countries: WHO

The discrepancies in consumption range from approximately 4 defined daily doses (DDD)/1,000 inhabitants per day to more than 64 DDD across 65 …

WHO releases a list of pathogens for which new antibiotics are required

The list categorises the bacteria according to the urgency of need for new antibiotics

‘Europe has double standards when it comes to the Roma’

For centuries, the Roma (colloquially known as ‘Gypsies’) have been discriminated against in Europe, to which they migrated to from …

World Health Assembly: Political will needed to curb non-communicable diseases

Non-communicable diseases kill 41 million people each year, low and middle-class countries account for 80 per cent of these deaths

More than half the world's most important natural sites are under threat: it's time to protect them

Many of the United Nations’ World Heritage sites are being rapidly destroyed in the pursuit of short-term economic goals

World Health Assembly: health issues of women, children and elderly in focus

Health facilities available for older people are unequally distributed across the world

Trash crisis in Lebanon, protests turn violent

Protests that started over garbage dump and shortage of landfills evolved into demonstrations against the government

World’s life expectancy up but gains uneven finds World Health Statistics 2016

A child born in a high income country is expected to live till 80 but life expectancy in sub- Saharan Africa is less than 60 years

How safe is your food. Not much it seems

Contaminated food leads to the death of 2 million people around the globe annually and is responsible for more than 200 types of diseases