
WNN Breaking (WNN) Moreton-in-Marsh, ENGLAND: With a combined effort to ensure policies that promote the inclusion of indigenous people worldwide who face corporate development land projects without their consent or cooperation, indigenous groups are calling upon the GIF – Global Environment Facility to help bring better standards and safety to what is often “a rushed [...]

Ruth Eglash – WNN Breaking (WNN/CGN) Jerusalem, ISRAEL: It’s an issue that affects people’s lives across the world everyday yet most media institutions do not dedicate much time, resources or manpower to covering religion. That was the assessment of some 25 journalists from six continents and 23 countries who gathered last month in Bellagio, [...]

WNN Breaking (WNN) U.S./GLOBAL: ReSurge International and International Medical Corps are partnering to address a global burn crisis in which severe burns affect nearly seven million people a year – particularly impoverished women and children – in developing countries. The partnership will leverage ReSurge’s 42-year history of serving burn survivors in vulnerable communities through reconstructive [...]

WNN Breaking (WNN) Global: New research into the extent of protection of women and girls has revealed that the risk of human rights abuses, such as sexual violence, discrimination, trafficking and sexual exploitation, are at ‘extreme’ levels in just over 40% of the 197 countries studied. The results of the Women’s and Girls’ Rights Index [...]