Women are extremely under-represented in science, but a UN research centre in The Netherlands is trying to address the gender imbalance, by raising…
A doctor in Benin has been telling the UN about the challenging conversations she has had with the relatives of patients who have…
People wearing face masks paddle on Khlong Ong Ang canal in Bangkok. City Hall resumes the service along the canal on Friday after…
Karen forest dwellers nabbed Authorities defend move in national park, saying they were enforcing court order Ten Karen villagers who returned to their…
Elderly depression ‘on rise’ Bid to tackle suicide rates, mental illness A helping hand: A Krungthai Bank staff member helps 70-year-old Jira Sukyan,…
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will investigate Akara Resources Plc — a gold mining company operating in the northeastern region — after…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), was speaking at the end of a historic week which saw COVAX deliver…
“It gives me great pleasure to announce that for the first time, women now account for more than a quarter of parliamentarians worldwide”, IPU Secretary-General…
Christine Schraner Burgener welcomed the fact that the Council was meeting behind closed doors on Friday to discuss the rising death toll on…
To date, 18 Ebola cases have been reported in the West African nation (14 confirmed and four deaths); only 30,000 Ebola vaccines are…
Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, was presenting her latest report to the UN Human Rights Council, which…