A new life in the Netherlands: a Syrian refugee family’s story
Hanadi Alkalas and Walid Albitar and their three daughters are Syrian refugees who have been granted asylum in the Netherlands through its fast-track asylum process.They have settled in the suburban Dutch town of Kessel-Eik
Herders suffer in fight against Boko Haram
The Nigerian government shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency, leaving many residents with no livelihood, including many of the two million people displaced by the war
Feeding the Asian slave trade
Testimonies from Bangladeshi and Rohingya trafficking survivors provide evidence of a shift in tactics in one of Asia’s busiest human trafficking routes
The ten biggest recipients of humanitarian relief since 2004
These 10 crises attracted the most humanitarian aid funding in the ten year period 2004-14. The figures show the total humanitarian assistance provided according to the most available data from UN OCHA's Financial Tracking Service and OECD DAC data.
El Salvador protects its forests from onslaught by ranchers
El Salvador's forests, many of which were damaged in the 1980s civil war, are now under threat from cattle ranchers who burn off trees to convert the land into pasture
One book can change the world: Barriers to education
Plan’s #10DaysToAct initiative runs from 16-26 June 2014, when young people from across Africa will call on governments across the world to deliver on their commitments to safe, quality education and raise their domestic spend on education to 20 per cent
Hardship and hope: Typhoon Haiyan survivors in their own words
Two years after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Phillipines, survivors told the Thomson Reuters Foundation their stories. Yolanda, as it is locally known, was the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, killing more than 6,300 people and uprooting 4.1 million from their homes.