Raja Ampat is one of the richest in bio-marine life in the world. But many inhabitants of the cluster of islands in West Papua, Indonesia live in poverty.
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Despite financial crises and political differences among these five emerging economies, the BRICS coalition is here to stay. And it may just change the world.
A report from Habitat III in Ecuador, where 50,000 delegates are trying to change the world.
Medical entries on Wikipedia are widely consulted across the world. Doctors and medical researchers need to make efforts to ensure the content on the online collaborative encyclopedia is accurate.
Referendums are not only divisive as tools of political democracy, they also turn everyday life into a new challenge.
Wine lovers can rest assured. Wine will adapt to climate change.
Jeffrey Sachs wants to press governments to follow through on their promises.
Rates of child marriage increase among refugee communities, where rates of sexual violence are high and opportunities for families low.
The war on reproductive rights in Central Europe is not a backlash but a key tenet of a new illiberal form of governance.
From the yellow butterflies of his ‘Hundred Years of Solitude’ to his Nobel acceptance speech, author Gabriel García Márquez remains ever present in his country’s peace process.
Angst when you forget your smartphone is not only a real psychological phenomenon–it also highlights a quintessentially postmodern problem: what the author calls the “anxiety of the disconnected”.
Haiti has been struck by natural disasters before. Here’s what we learned about helping victims.
Duterte says there are three million drug users in the Philippines. There are almost certainly many fewer than that.
Mexico has signed every international human rights treaty, but abuses are still rife.
Integrating large refugee populations goes far beyond simply offering citizenship to some.
Of many ways to make fundamental decisions in a constitutional democracy, Colombia and Great Britain chose the riskiest of all options: the plebiscite.
Is food sovereignty possible in the global world we live in today? Yes, if governments can develop appropriate policies.
The international community seems totally incapable of stopping the bloodshed in Syria. But we can express our outrage.
It’s been ten years since “land grabbing” hit the headlines. What has changed?
Chinese parents and the state are concerned about the declining marriage rate in the country. But the focus on single men ignores the root of the problem.
The Pangsau Pass between Burma and India illustrates the complex issue of borders in the region.
Guterres must know the world we live in today more globally and more intimately than many a former minister or executive.
A week of extreme emotions in Colombia ends with a Nobel Peace Prize for its president. But will it help the country avoid descending back into civil war?
Why would anyone award a prize to a rejected peace deal?
Nobel Prize aside, Colombia continues to choose war over peace and uncertainty over resolution. Is it something ingrained in the national psyche, or the product of a tangled-up political process?