Governments must step up efforts to meet deadline to end hunger, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation World governments will need to lift 185,000 people out of hunger each day for the next 12 years in order to meet global goals to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday. The calculation was made by Kostas Stamoulis, assistant director-general of the UN Food and […]
Where is the promised money, campaigners ask at climate talks in Bangkok
Thomson Reuters Foundation Developed countries are dragging their feet on meeting their pledges of billions of dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change, leaving poor nations with mounting costs from rising temperatures, rights groups said. Rich governments have promised to mobilise $US100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020 to help poorer nations […]
ESSAY: FAITH AND FIDELITY IN BANGKOK’S URBAN CHAOS
ASH BARKER, Bangkok-based international director of Urban Neighbours Of Hope, reflects on the recent turmoil in the Thai capital…