EXCLUSIVE-Expose reveals child labour in Cambodian brick kilns despite crackdown

Poverty fuelled partly by climate change has pushed countless Cambodian families - often rural farmers - into the country's booming brick industry

INTERVIEW -Namibia's first lady pledges to give all her wealth to charity

Monica Geingos is on a mission to change the image of African first ladies and tackle sexism and inequality in Namibia, the world's second most unequal country

Locust swarms in East Africa: here's what you need to know

Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are being ravaged by the worst locust outbreak in decades

Each day, fossil fuel air pollution costs $8 billion, study says

Exposure to fossil fuel-generated air pollutants is blamed for some 1.8 billion days of work absences every year, worldwide, resulting in losses of about $101 billion, the study said

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

Popular projects to plant more trees in cities may not protect residents from soaring and often deadly heat, say researchers

Slavery not a crime for almost half the countries in the world - study

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery

Malian architect fights climate change with digital greenhouse

'If nothing is done against climate change, Africa won't be able to feed her children and that means war'

UEFA teams up with Disney in a bid to boost girls participation

The biggest-ever attempt to boost girls' involvement in the game will start this spring in seven European countries before being introduced across the continent

Mayors of 15 major EU cities ask for funds to fight climate change

The EU aims not to be emitting any more carbon dioxide than it absorbs by 2050, making it 'neutral' from the point of view of climate change and helping curb global warming

Radio show in small Indian town gives rare voice to child workers

A charity launched the weekly radio show on child workers to give children a medium to express themselves and to give the town a lesson on empathy and child labour laws


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