South Africa’s Working for Water programme addresses environmental issues and provides temporary jobs. But it’s not equipping participants for stable employment.

There has been much and justified focus on the implications of a likely deal between US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and the overwhelmingly negative consequences ...

Cristina Álvarez from Amatenango del Valle, Chiapas shares: ‘My goal is to carry out actions that allow me to strengthen my Tzeltal language and at the same time work to preserve local knowledge and ...

With no end to numerous protracted conflicts - not least in Ukraine, three years to the day since the full-scale Russian invasion - UN chief António Guterres on Monday scorned the world’s “warmongers” ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a government, following coalition negotiations.

Ramadan is one of the most significant months of the Islamic lunar calendar. It marks the time when the Quran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him). Almost 2 billion Muslims worldwide ...

It has been nearly two years since a deadly train crash in Tempi, Greece on February 28, 2023, killed 57 people, most of them young, and injured dozens more. Recent mass protests across the country, ...

European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and EU foreign ministers should unequivocally condemn Israel’s atrocity crimes and other serious violations of international law during the EU-Israel ...

Ahead of the three-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and amid the start of U.S.-Russia peace talks, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said:   “At a ...

The transition to solar power has been slow, especially in isolated areas where electricity concession companies impose restrictions, but hotels are finding ways around it.

On 8 July 2024, a Russian missile struck their residential building […] The post ‘My family lived on the second floor – where the missile hit and exploded’ appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]> ...

Discretion, silences and underachievement marked Joan Lindsay’s life and work – despite writing an Australian classic. A new biography investigates her many mysteries.