LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stoning, a form of execution where a group throws stones at a person until they are dead, still happens in parts of the Muslim world, mostly as a punishment ...

Meg Lewis is Campaigns Manager at Labour Behind the Label, a group that works to improve conditions and empower workers in the global garment industry. Stark figures from the Clean Clothes ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The war in Ukraine shows the high stakes risk of concentrating food production to just a ...

NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage ...

Up to 40% of global crop production is lost to plant pests and diseases, says the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization NAIROBI, June 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ravenous pests are on the ...

Reverend Angela Martin of the Maryland Poor People's Campaign takes part in a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Sept 8 ...

Farmer Qasim Abdul Wahad looks at one of his date palms which are struggling due to salination and lack of water near the village of Abu Al-Khaseeb in southern Iraq’s Basra governorate, March 6 ...

LONDON, Oct 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Making sure all girls are finishing secondary education by 2030 could boost the gross domestic product (GDP) of developing countries by 10% on average ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery LONDON, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

March 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic reversed women's workplace gains in many of the world's wealthiest countries as the burden of childcare rose and female-dominated ...

The United States has never gotten far on whether or how to compensate African Americans for slavery, now support is growing WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, June 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When ...

July 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The muggy heat swaddling Tokyo may be a forerunner of Olympic life to come, experts say, urging a rethink to make the world's oldest sporting spectacular fit ...