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UN Security Council to discuss Rohingya situation
Meeting sought by UK and Sweden as nearly 370,000 Rohingya cross into Bangladesh to flee violence in Rakhine.
Corporations are tackling forced labour but progress needed - index
"Modern slavery is embedded into almost every area of our society, a hideous crime that robs millions of lives from their basic right to freedom"
As climate threats grow clearer, risk-lowering investment is crucial - bankers
Turning shifts to clean energy and climate resilience into projects that bankers can sink trillions of dollars into is what's needed, bankers say
More than a billion live on degraded land, at risk of hunger - UN
More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertifica...
Message to the world from Rahimol, a Rohingya
"We want to go home and we want peace. I believe the world is watching our crisis and that they are trying to help us."
Rotary New Zealand to Receive $5 Million Grant
The New Zealand Government has confirmed it will contribute to Rotary New Zealand new funding for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to help the global fight to end polio.
Ahead of Hurricane Irma, UN agencies preparing supplies and communication lines to youth
As a category 5 hurricane, devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma is predicated to be record-setting.
'People are dying': violence forces aid workers out of Central African Republic
Threats, looting and violence prompt withdrawal of aid organisations at height of malaria season, denying access to healthcare and leaving thousands at risk
Gaza: 1 million children suffering in 'unlivable' conditions
A UN report in 2012 said Gaza would be unlivable by 2020. Save the Children considers Gaza to be unlivable now.
'We'd rather die than lose': villagers in Indonesia fight for a land rights revolution
Members of the small Pandumaan-Sipituhuta indigenous community are at the centre of a historic struggle that just might transform the rules of capitalism in Indonesia.
