Rural women play a fundamental role in the conservation of nature and the socio-economic development of communities and nations. However, the challenges are broad and deep-seated. Women throughout the world have to face major violations of their rights daily: Poverty, violence...

In the 1990s, Mrs. Gokila Devi Ranjith Kumar and her parents fled the conflict in Sri Lanka and sought refuge at a welfare centre in India. Now at age 33, she has returned to the island as a wife and mother who is a successful entrepreneur with her own masala manufacturing bus...

Ibrahim Agah, 65, has lived in an emergency shelter in Malkohi, in north-east Nigeria’s Adamawa State, for almost a decade.In 2013 he sought refuge in Malkohi with his wife Hadiza, 45, and their three children following a Boko Haram attack in their village in Gwoza, in neighbo...

Education Cannot Wait celebrates World Children’s Day with inspiring stories from Colombia, Lebanon, and Mali.

When you think of plastic pollution, you may think of plastic bags strangling sea animals or bottles littering the landscape.But the impacts of plastic pollution go far beyond the finished product and start with how plastics are made.The plastics industry is actually the faste...

Piloting a rite of passage expedition

 War. Nobody is prepared to go through war. Even I, who work for a UN humanitarian response organization (OCHA), was not ready when it arrived at our doorstep in Kyiv. On 24 February, when Russian Forces attacked multiple cities in Ukraine, my husband woke me up at 6 a.m. sayi...

Two young Ethiopian girls are one step closer to achieving their dreams of an Education with support from an innovative ECW-funded programme delivered by World Vision and UNICEF.

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