Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the...
Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there...
Grave violations against children in conflict ‘alarmingly high’, latest UN report reveals
More than 19,300 boys and girls affected by war last year were victims of grave violations such as recruitment or rape, and the COVID-19...
LIVE-Ukraine crisis latest
A local school was damaged and a local community center destroyed after Russia attacks a city of Merefa in Kharkiv Oblast.
Merefa, home to 21,500...
Johnson-High energy costs the price we have to pay to support Ukraine
Boris Johnson on a visit to Kyiv said western countries must ‘endure’ higher energy bills and food prices as a result of the war...
Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological...
Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new Earth Commission study published today in...
Clear out for a good cause’ says British Red Cross, as more than half...
The British Red Cross is kicking off its 150th year with a campaign called It Starts With Her to show how women in the...
COVID-19 could kill more people through hunger than the disease itself, warns Oxfam
More people could die as a result of hunger linked to COVID-19 than could die from the disease, warned Oxfam in a new report...
WHO chief warns against ‘catastrophic moral failure’ in COVID-19 vaccine access
A “me-first approach” to COVID-19 vaccines on the part of some countries and manufacturers is putting equitable access to these lifesaving treatments at risk,...
Women in many poor households excluded from education– report
One in six of the world’s poor (215 million) live in households where no female has completed six years of school, but at least...
Researchers create system to quickly identify Ukraine atrocities using social media
Experts from universities in the UK and the USA have repurposed their research activities to quickly create a system which provides a running account...