News stories by Bari Bates

Khadija Ismayilova sat calmly, her face, voice and movements doing nothing to break the composed demeanour with which she recounted the Azeri government’s attempt to completely discredit her as a journalist.

As Western forces step up their military presence in Somalia, locals and experts are worried that the country — struggling under multiple crises from piracy, to drought — is doomed to churn in a cycle of violence that fails to acknowledge root causes of the problems.

Decades ago, 15 of Europe’s wealthiest nations made a promise to allocate .7 percent of their respective gross national products (GNP) to official development assistance. Yet despite a commitment that comprises such a small fraction of a nation’s wealth, only a handful of countries are on track to reach this goal by the 2015 deadline.

Our oceans face a grim outlook in the coming decades. Ocean acidification, loss of marine biodiversity, climate change, pollution and over-exploitation of resources all point to the urgent need for a new paradigm on caring for the earth’s oceans—'business as usual' is simply not an option anymore, experts say.

Foggy details surrounding Europe’s anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) have divided pubic opinion, with activists on one end of the spectrum claiming it to be the end of Internet freedom and the generic drug market, while proponents continue to defend the act as a 'modest' agreement to protect Europe’s intellectual property.

Behind closed doors, a trade deal affecting a fifth of the world’s population has been quietly in the works for years.

Dozens of European Union-funded projects across several countries are ‘environmentally or socially unsound’, according to a map created by a joint effort between CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth Europe.

If the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.