As the UN climate talks go into their final hours, progress has been terrifyingly slow, with obstruction from key fossil fuel-pushing governments.

A UNAIDS oversight board has resisted calls for the agency chief's dismissal in the wake of a report that found the agency was rife with harassment, bullying, and abuses of power.

Rising violence in the Central African Republic threatens to spill across the border into neighbouring countries, a senior UN official has warned.

Nearly 30 million babies are born too soon, too small or become sick every year and need specialised care to survive, according to a report by a global coalition.

A generation of Rohingya children face extremely limited access to education in Myanmar and in refugee camps in Bangladesh, a UK-based Rohingya Organisation claims.

Novelist Amitav Ghosh has said that environment and climate are almost ignored in literary fiction precisely when they have become major agents of social and political change.

Poor working conditions in Zambia's health service and rigid application of one-size-fits-all models of care are among reasons why people drop out of HIV treatment in the country.

In Bangladesh, a bat-borne virus is poised to become the next pandemic—and medicine alone may not be sufficient to stop it. Is an ecological intervention the answer?