Will Indonesia mitigate COVID-19 by enforcing stronger tobacco control and ratifying global tobacco treaty? Bobby Ramakant – CNS President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, has been sent an appeal to ...

LET MY CHILDREN GO: WORLD EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR By René Wadlow June 12 is a red-letter day on the United Nations (UN) agenda of events as the World Day Against Child ...

UN Women, the agency responsible for gender equality, hosted the one-day intergenerational dialogue as a way “to galvanize the new generation of gender equality activists across various constituencies ...

Kathmandu Research Centre has recently established ' Surendra -Tara Distinguished Award in memory and contribution of Dr Surendra Bhakta Pradhanang - Father of Village Tourism of Nepal. The research ...

"Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you but to help you release the hidden potential and power". This quote by the late Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, a scientist and the 11th President of India, ...

Recognizing this week’s World Environment Day reminds us of the evolution of the concept of sustainable development since the phrase was coined in a 1987 United Nations’ report. At that time, ...

Nepal: People In Search Of A Future A desire for job, security and opportunity is sending many of Nepal's young people out of the county in search of better lives. "I feel secure. My son goes to ...

Pandemic treaty talks resume amidst lurking corporate pressure SHOBHA SHUKLA - CNS Unless profiteering from illness stops, corporations which are becoming richer even during disasters and pandemics, ...

The curtain is finally down on the World No Tobacco Day 2017 and we are back to business as usual. There was a flurry of activities in my city, and elsewhere too, during the weeks preceding this day, ...

12 May 2015 – Nuclear disarmament, as envisioned in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has simply not occurred, according to senior United Nations official Angela Kane, who cites a “growing ...

Artwork by Michael Anderson and Sam Ben-Meir The decertification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by Trump is most unfortunate. It seems that Trump was not swayed by either France’s ...

Key decision-makers and senior representatives of several constituencies are convening to review progress on the effective development co-operation (EDC) agenda and to discuss how to accelerate ...