INTERVIEW - What it would take to get super-cold COVID-19 vaccine to West Africa

Hope is rising that a new vaccine could halt the COVID-19 pandemic - for some - but lessons learnt from past vaccine programmes in West Africa suggest millions more might miss out.

Biden rekindles American Dream for Africa's LGBT+ refugees

African LGBT+ refugees seeking new life in the United States celebrate Biden-Harris win


Public banks urged to share funding fairly, as climate batters poor farmers

Communities most vulnerable to floods, droughts and storms are still not getting the support they need to adapt to climate change, say aid experts, as world's development banks meet


Biden win called a 'restoration of sanity' for women's rights

President-elect Biden offers the possibility of reversing moves by the Trump administration that stymied women's rights, campaigners said


Tell the world we exist: the intersex child on a mission to inform

The nine-year-old star of short film "Girlsboysmix" hopes to help others to understand what it means to be intersex


U.S. domestic workers seen better off under Biden presidency

From housekeepers to nannies, workers in the caregiving economy allow untold numbers of others to do their jobs


On U.S. digital rights, Biden presidency could be 'a real opportunity'

Digital rights groups urge president-elect to make sweeping changes in his first 100 days in the White House


Financing for global goals under threat just when most needed, says OECD head

The COVID-19 pandemic is handicapping efforts to reach the Sustainable Development Goals in developing nations as cash runs short and recessions take hold


Hungary's ban on trans identity change 'very sad', says EU equality chief

As EU launches plan to tackle discrimination, Helena Dalli says Hungary’s transgender law saddened her


In blast-hit Beirut, 'invisible' elderly women face destitution

Without pensions, elderly women struggle in Lebanon amid COVID-19 and economic crisis


Egyptian transgender woman faces uphill battle against stigma

Abandoned by her family and left jobless, Farida Aly has fought hard to be accepted as a transgender woman in conservative Muslim Egypt


Opinion

OPINION: Viktor Orban is on a crusade against Hungary’s LGBT+ community

Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party wants to force children to be raised with conservative Christian values that exclude love and compassion for LGBT+ people


OPINION: Black women voters changed the shape of the U.S. election. It’s time to thank them.

When Black women show up, be prepared to follow. That is, above all, the most sincere form of thanks


OPINION: How can the U.S. renew the fight against human trafficking?

President-elect Joe Biden’s administration can restore the United States’ global leadership in combating modern slavery


OPINION: What does the Biden win mean for climate action?

On climate finance, faster emissions cuts and setting the climate action traffic signal for business from red to green, a Biden administration could produce big shifts



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