Featured Interview
Kids for Kids: Helping Communities in Darfur - Interview with founder Patricia Parker
By empowering the women, and providing a wide spectrum of projects, we are lifting individual families out of poverty, and transforming whole communities long term... The goat loan is just one of many integrated projects... This includes providing midwives…
World News
Volunteers Speak of Dire Conditions at Calais Camp, Following Recent Report
‘I’ve seen the exact conditions that the report details. Sewerage runs through the streets and the tap water isn’t safe. People are sleeping in tents which simply won’t be adequate for winter' - Amanda Wells.
SOS Syrian Children - Helping Those Still in Syria
"My husband is Syrian and it was our dream to spend more time in his country... In October 2011, we left without knowing it would be years until we could go back. Home in Belgium, we saw the situation get worse and worse... all at once I got the idea to do something for the Syrian people."
Asylum-seekers, Refugees, Migrants - What's in a Name?
The charity 'Doctors of the World' reports appalling conditions for migrants in and around Calais... one of the most outwardly ostensible issues is a lack of understanding of the asylum rules in the UK and France, which is in turn hindering the provision of key aid to the migrants....
Advocating for Women's Access to Land Rights in Peru
The event took place in the city of Lima and all the organizations formed came from the coast, mountains, and jungle of Peru. A number of 50 grassroots women leaders shared their work experiences and explained about the problems they have in their communities.
The Complex Issue of Legalising Prostitution
Examples from countries with legalised prostitution tend to indicate that the biggest benefactor from legalisation is national governments who stand to profit from taxation...
Child Piracy – The Somali News Story You’re Not Being Told About
The failure of the international community to address and acknowledge the problem of child piracy is leading to serious children’s rights abuses, as they are continually recruited and used by pirate commanders for the same reason warlords recruit children to be soldiers: they are easier to manipulate and are seen as expendable by the groups which recruit them.