Populations in Latin America and the Caribbean have the world’s highest levels of differences in wealth and income, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in a new report that calls for social policies which tackle the problem of inequality in the region.Full story
The United Nations agency tasked with promoting education has launched an initiative to send donated books to camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haiti, in an effort to restart the learning process for the country’s children whose schools and libraries were destroyed by the earthquake in January. Full story...
A top United Nations official has promised to double the amount of food purchased from women farmers living in a Millennium Village in Uganda, part of a United Nations-backed initiative to help African communities lift themselves out of poverty. Full story...
They made their way from across Cambodia, young and old, rural and urban, cynical and optimistic. Some were weary survivors, while others were not even born when the Khmer Rouge carried out its genocidal policies in the late 1970s. But they all had the same desire: to witness first-hand whether justice would be delivered. Full story...
