A shortfall in funding has forced the UN agency in Gaza (UNWRA) to suspend aid to tens of thousands of Palestinians for repairs to homes damaged in

As evidence grows suggesting that global warming is accelerating, more climate change talks take place in Warsaw. Negotiators are still poles

The EU has pledged 650 million euros in what is being hailed as a ‘New Deal’ for Somalia. The money will be used to support the country’s new

This edition of Learning World looks at the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which include getting all the world’s primary aged children into

A eurosceptic British Member of the European Parliament has defended a comment he made about foreign aid being sent to “Bongo Bongo Land”. Godfrey

The EU’s poorest regions could be the biggest losers at this week’s budget summit as member states look to agree upon how much to spend on Europe

This year’s opening of the European Development Days coincides with World Food Day – an occasion to remind us that around one billion people face

The equivalent of about 13 billion euros in development aid has been pledged to secure the peace in Afghanistan. Representatives from around 80

After a decade of steady increases, EU development aid fell for the first time last year, latest figures from the OECD show. Collectively, the

A relaxed and smiling Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have appeared at their first official engagement as a married couple. Prince William and Kate

These are some of the questions you asked Craig Calhoun: 1- Did the US respond adequately to Haiti’s earthquake? 2- Was Hurricane Katrina a turning

Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been urging the European Union and its member governments to sustain foreign aid in their

What started out twenty years ago as a grassroots movement to collect rubbish in the villages of Mali has turned into a successful NGO helping women

Reducing extreme poverty and hunger, guaranteeing primary education for all and fighting disease are just some of the aims of the international

Two year ago, Rajendra Kuma Pachauri received the nobel peace prize alongside Al Gore for his work at the head of the international group of experts

Up to six billion euros is wasted per year in development aid given to other countries by the European Union; the EU aid Commissioner called the

European development aid, and how documentary films are bringing the Millenium Goals to the public’s attention. Behind the scenes at a new

Guinee Bissau. This small country in West Africa is one of the world’s poorest and, in recent times, among the least stable. In less than three years