The pandemic has affected local businesses the most. At this crucial time, the business should be continued as much as possible so that the local people get jobs/employment, and the economy stabilizes ...

‘Wake-up call’ data shows 63 million adolescents out of school – joint UN agency report Source:UN News 19 January 2015 – One in five adolescents worldwide is not in school, which means that some 63 ...

Why shouldn’t Canada buy F-35s? The F-35 is not a tool of peace or even of military defense. It is a stealth, offensive, nuclear-weapons-capable airplane designed for surprise attacks with the ...

Gender-based violence is among the most prevalent human rights violations globally. Urgency is palpable as governments worldwide have less than 7 years to end all forms of gender-based violence and ...

Additional photos and video are available to download here. OTTAWA — Hundreds of people have blocked access to the opening of CANSEC, North America’s largest weapons and “defense industry” convention ...

When the Maoist Victims Association, an organization of people displaced by Maoist violence, organized a sit-in protest, they were arrested by the police. The victims requested rehabilitation, ...

20 November 2016 – With more than 3,400 people, many of them young men and women, losing their lives on the world's roads every day, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked the World Day ...

The current exhibition of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art – the first of its kind to be mounted in North America – is indeed an extraordinary revelation.

If we look back over the past four decades since the first case of HIV was diagnosed, we cannot miss the stark writing on the wall: had the whole world depended only on the rich nations of the Global ...

12 October 2016 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is working with the Cuban Government to provide food for 180,000 people in hard-hit eastern areas of the island as they cope with the ...

Black History Month challenges all of us to learn, reflect and understand many things about the Black American experience, among them the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. This outrage, perpetrated by the US ...

11 April 2017 – Voicing concern over the impact of deteriorating security and humanitarian situation on the lives some 400,000 people trapped in eastern Ghouta in Syria, a United Nations spokesperson ...