JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly demanded global action to quickly scale up the development of and access to medicines, vaccines and equipment to battle the pandemic, while the…

Authorities are concerned villagers may take advantage of COVID-19 school closures to perform FGM on girls NAIROBI, April 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Village chiefs in Kenya will make house-to-house…

"We must also support other alternatives including the use of community radio and television broadcasts, and creativity in all ways of learning."       Paris: Half of the world’s school and…

Despite the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the world mustn't forget the "deeper environmental emergency" facing the planet. That's the view of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in remarks…

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Indigenous communities play a critical role in preventing the emergence of…

With scant contact with the outside world and little immunity to disease, isolated indigenous tribes could be devastated by the coronavirus, experts say. When John Hemming first arrived in 1971…

Two of the political data points that currently spell bad news for Donald Trump are steadily worsening public assessments of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and Joe Biden’s strong position among voters over 65, who…

(CNN)A Native American woman will no longer adorn the packages of Land O'Lakes butter. After nearly 100 years, the Minnesota-based dairy company has removed the Native American woman kneeling against a…

Naming the void left by the Holocaust is not only a moral duty but also the only way for us, as survivors, to maintain our own humanity. In a scene…

DETROIT – The man who raised Keith Gambrell, who loved him like a son and married his mother, died in a blue recliner of novel coronavirus in his Michigan home. …