World News

October 19, 2019

Reliance on information from banks hinders corruption investigations

Governments are failing to tackle international money laundering and tax fraud because police don’t have the tools to track down the owners of companies suspected of criminal activity, a new report by Transparency International claims.
October 18, 2019

World stumbling into a digital welfare dystopia, warns UN human rights expert

Digital welfare states risk becoming Trojan Horses for hostility towards social protection and regulation, said the UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston.
October 18, 2019

Research shows 31 states holding back progress on nuclear disarmament

The 2019 report of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor identifies 31 mostly European states as ‘nuclear-weapon-complicit states’.
October 17, 2019

Poor diets damaging children’s health worldwide, warns UNICEF

An alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them, UNICEF warns in a new report on children, food and nutrition.
October 17, 2019

Drought and commercial cattle farming causing devastating hunger in Angola

Tens of thousands of pastoral farmers who have been driven off their land to make way for commercial cattle ranches are at severe risk of starvation as drought grips southern Angola.
October 16, 2019

UN briefing on Turkish military offensive in Syria

The UN has received reports that a well-known Kurdish female politician was executed, apparently by fighters affiliated to Turkey..
October 16, 2019

Children affected by conflict in Africa call on goverments to protect most vulnerable

Some five million African children have been killed by conflict-related disease or hunger in the last 20 years.
October 15, 2019

European States urged to improve protection and support of child refugees and migrants

Child refugees and migrants continue to face risks and hardship once in Europe, including unsafe accommodation, being incorrectly registered as adults, and a lack of appropriate care, says the UN Refugee Agency.
October 15, 2019

Development banks reducing investment in renewables, says Christian Aid

A new report reveals that multilateral development banks such as the World Bank are decreasing investment in renewables.
October 14, 2019

Maldives government shuts down human rights group

Maldives Democracy Network has long faced threats and attacks for opposing violence by Islamist groups in the Maldives.