Meg Lewis is Campaigns Manager at Labour Behind the Label, a group that works to improve conditions and empower workers in the global garment industry. Stark figures from the Clean Clothes ...

NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage ...

Reverend Angela Martin of the Maryland Poor People's Campaign takes part in a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Sept 8 ...

Farmer Qasim Abdul Wahad looks at one of his date palms which are struggling due to salination and lack of water near the village of Abu Al-Khaseeb in southern Iraq’s Basra governorate, March 6 ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The war in Ukraine shows the high stakes risk of concentrating food production to just a ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery LONDON, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

In February a now-infamous photo made its rounds on social media. Posted by US Vice President Mike Pence, the image, which showed the members of the US Coronavirus Taskforce, left many asking a ...

July 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The muggy heat swaddling Tokyo may be a forerunner of Olympic life to come, experts say, urging a rethink to make the world's oldest sporting spectacular fit ...

A recycling project in a rundown Johannesburg neighbourhood is cleaning up the streets while helping to feed thousands of people JOHANNESBURG, Nov 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mimi Ngalula ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. While we must scale up the immediate health response to curb the spread of COVID-19, the ...

The United States has never gotten far on whether or how to compensate African Americans for slavery, now support is growing WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, June 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When ...

The costs of more extreme weather and rising seas are already hitting India's vulnerable groups hard, as their work and health are highly exposed, says a new report MUMBAI, June 8 (Thomson Reuters ...