Development banks' climate funding at all-time high in 2018
Financing from six multilateral development banks to boost projects addressing climate risks and cutting emissions topped $43 billion in 2018, up 22% from 2017
Richest countries skimp on parental leave: UNICEF
Australia and New Zealand offer only eight weeks maternity leave and the United States offers no time
End of a 'cure'? U.S. ban on gay conversion therapy gains ground
Nearly 700,000 LGBT+ adults have undergone conversion therapy in the United States, according to a study last year
INTERVIEW-No secret safe in age of AI, says French digital envoy
'We might not employ or insure someone because they risk depression, or a country might use predictions about your sexual orientation against you,' Verdier said.
Reverence for tradition threatens same-sex marriage in Japan
'To be honest, it's going to be tough to get this through parliament,' said Kanako Otsuji, the only openly out LGBT+ MP
Ecuador approves same-sex marriage as LGBT+ groups hail landmark week
The Latin American nation is the 27th country to allow same-sex marriage
INTERVIEW-'Too many' maps slow return of Indonesia's indigenous land
Indonesia's president had vowed to return 12.7 million hectares of land to indigenous people following a historic 2013 court ruling to lift state control of customary forests
The race to revive Spain's dying 'ghost villages'
Concerns over the emptying of rural Spain are driving several revival initiatives to try to bring people back to the countryside
'We hide': Abused migrants say Irish fishing reforms will fail
Ireland's 2,000-strong fishing fleet employs about 3,400 people and is worth some 400 million euros a year
U.S. Pentagon emits more greenhouse gases than Portugal, study finds
Using and moving troops and weapons accounted for about 70% of its energy consumption