Taking a new approach to measuring aid effectiveness
The aid world must come up with better ways to measure effectiveness, panellists at an Overseas Development Institute talk say
Is Africa drought a chance to enact new UK policy?
Aid management is contested as global concerns mount over a hunger crisis devastating the drought-affected Horn of Africa
Book posits a grassroots approach key to poverty alleviation
Book suggests governments and aid agencies need to change their views on poverty alleviation
London pirate exhibit charts era of corrupt politics
Captain Kidd's controversial criminal trial is the basis for a new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands
WFP social networking site seeks to benefit from snacking impulses
A social networking website created by WFP has raised enough money to feed more than 100,000 children, the U.N. agency says
Day for street children highlights human potential - Danny Boyle
Governments should work harder to recognise rights of children living on the streets, say organisers of the "Louder Together" campaign
UK's Baroness Flather says women key to meeting humanitarian goals
Shreela Flather, the first Asian woman to become a life peer for the UK Conservative Party, argues in a new book that "women must be central to every initiative, business project and political goal
'Eco-cide' should be criminalised in negligence cases - lawyer
'Ecocide' - the destruction of ecosystems - should be criminalised when people are culpable and when they have been negligent in some way, says Andrew Waite, vice president of the European Environmental Law Association
Turning environmental destruction into a crime against peace
Criminalising ecocide -- the destruction of ecosystems -- is an idea that "just has to come," says David Hart, an environmental lawyer and advocate of 'wild law'
'Eco-cide' should rank alongside genocide, author argues
Current environmental measures do not go far enough to protect the planet, argues Polly Higgins, an international environmental lawyer who argues that destruction of ecosystems should be criminalized