A one-size-fits-all approach to fighting the virus could lead to even more suffering in the developing world. The coronavirus pandemic that’s shattered lives throughout high-income countries is hitting the developing world as…
https://youtu.be/teQqYF_yDUc Washington, D.C. attorney Richard Sobol stands up to a racist legal system to defend Gary Duncan, a Black teenager wrongfully accused of assaulting a boy in 1966 New Orleans.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to cause the biggest fall in carbon dioxide emissions since World War Two but it will likely be short-lived and will not…
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…