Five-week conflict could undermine efforts to build lasting peace in the the world's youngest nation

These communities tend to want very simple things: basic and stable incomes, access to education, healthcare and food for their children, and the opportunity to influence decision-making.

Centralised management of forest resources has exacerbated deforestation and environmental degradation, researchers find

African children living in communities surrounded by forests have healthier diets, including more fruit and vegetables

Last week, Malawi’s president declared: “Let there be light in every home.” Small-scale lighting schemes are the answer - especially for women

Challenging social norms is vital to tackling anything from AIDS, poverty and gender-based violence

Climate change is an economic, political and social risk, not just an environmental one

Some experts are starting to doubt the effectiveness of voluntary corporate initiatives because without enforcement mechanisms, they lack muscle

Despite 12 years of armed conflict, investment and capacity-building by foreign governments in Afghanistan, including by EU governments and the EU itself, women’s rights remain in peril in Afghanistan

Predictions of a rise in global consumption of meat and vegetable oil are worrying for deforestation, but the two issues can be tackled together

Practices like vermi-composting can boost food security and climate adaption, while being mindful of mitigation goals

Lowering global temperatures by reflecting sunlight, for example, could change rainfall patterns around the equator - with potentially devastating impacts for poor people

Educated and otherwise respected members of Thai society rear their sexist heads - condoning and even calling for sexual violence to bring down Thailand’s first female PM

Latin America's stiffer drug laws disproportionately affect women, who often work on the lowest rung of the drug business as petty dealers and mules

Sectarian violence in Iraq is pushing entire families to move to Turkey or Jordan, a new wave of refugees that is putting added strain on two countries struggling to cope with huge numbers of Syrians escaping their civil war

In Liberia, a corruption scandal is developing – and it came about after a Thomson Reuters Foundation journalism trainee used her new skills to report on suspicious practices at the Liberian Embassy in Brussels.

“Even though not all men are a part of the problem, all men can and need to be a part of the solution”

Having the right policies in place in advance can help build a happier future for people who leave their homes because of natural disasters, sea-level rise and other effects of a changing climate, experts tell online debate

In June 2013 #Withoutwords: Emerging Syrian artists opened at the P21 gallery in London. The idea behind the exhibition was to collect the work of Syrian artists who are responding to the humanitarian crisis.