One year after actor Colin Firth launched a campaign to save the Awá, " Earth’s most threatened tribe", other celebrities have joined him in backing the cause.

Only about one in every ten dollars spent on disasters goes towards preparing for and preventing them, according to new research.

Global inaction on human rights is making the world an increasingly dangerous place for refugees and migrants, warns Amnesty International's latest assessment.

Almost half of all money invested in developing countries is channelled through tax havens, a new report revealed today.

A new era of high and volatile global food prices goes beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and is causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn today.

Ask someone to describe Google and they’ll probably talk about a search engine that saved the web. Few would describe it as a highly-efficient, profit-driven business machine.

On Thursday the world will celebrate ten years of fighting fistula, a foul condition that affects up to 3 million women and girls in the Global South. But there are questions [...]

Mara Samba Diallo is an unlikely human rights activist. Married at 12 and living in a remote Senegalese village, all she has in her armoury is her own story.