Mexico urges wealthy nations to help poorer states cut disaster risk
Mexico's president issued a communique with world leaders recognising the fast-growing cost of natural disasters, exacerbated by climate change
World Bank says nations ill-prepared to battle pandemic diseases
Containing pandemics would cost about $1 per person per year in investment
Mexican authorities urged to boost security after indigenous activists killed
Double homicide comes amid a resurgence in violence from drug cartels and follows a spate of killings of journalists and activists
Unequal rights for indigenous, rural women endanger forest lands - researchers
Community practices often relegate women's tenure rights solely to land access and use rather than full control over customarily governed land and natural resources
Drought insurance 'an experiment that failed' in Malawi - report
A policy taken out by Malawi cost the country $5 million but failed to deliver timely assistance to more than 6.5 million people affected by drought in 2016, says ActionAid
INTERVIEW-'Gender blind' disaster risk planning undermines countries' ability to cope - UN Women
Women and girls more likely to die in disasters or during infectious disease outbreaks, but disaster planning "gender blind", says U.N.
Hundreds of migrants staying in 'disastrous' conditions in northern France after camp fire - charity
Over 1,000 migrants are still scattered across the region and the numbers are growing, with 600 now living around Calais
INTERVIEW - Domestic violence pushes Central American women to flee for their lives - U.N.
"I met a woman whose face was disfigured and she had gone through years of beatings ... she saved her children by fleeing"
Emerging economies take lead on going green, but investment needed
Countries like India have grasped the benefits of shifting to low-carbon development, but they can't do it alone
In world's largest urban rainforest, it's conservation vs housing rights
Haydee has lived in her home in Tijuca National Park since 1942, but park authorities now want her and dozens of other forest residents to leave.