Four blocks of Lucknow and Sitapur will launch a pilot project to check whether cash transfers work better instead of take-home rations for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children between six months and three years of age....

The Trump administration issued a final rule Monday that allows federal officials to deny green cards to legal immigrants who have received certain public benefits or who are deemed likely to do so in the future. President Trump's...

Brazil’s Senate is expected to consider extending pension reform to states and municipal governments as it moves to vote on a bill overhauling the social security system. Senators could also take up a plan for individual retirement...

OPINION: Every year, thousands of Chinese children are left in the care of state-run orphanages by parents either unwilling or unable to support them. Roughly 10,000 reach the legal age of majority each year.

Since the...

Over 700 schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) will open their doors in time for the new scholastic year 2019-2020 in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza...

Besides working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, what can we do to lessen the toll of climate change on the world's poorest people?

Make government assistance programs climate-smart, suggests a new...

South Africa published its draft National Health Insurance (NHI) bill on Thursday, with one senior official estimating universal healthcare for millions of poorer citizens would cost about 256 billion rand ($16.89 billion) to...

BLOG:  Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ilhan Omar discussed their companion bills to cancel all student debt in the United States. Unlike the plan put forward by Senator Elizabeth Warren, which limits debt cancellation for...

BLOG: Over eight years of destructive conflict has taken a heavy toll on Syria’s economy. Massive internal displacement, emigration and mortality have greatly weakened the population, out of which more than half are estimated to be...

Humanitarian agencies are setting up innovative climate risk insurance policies to protect up to 1.3 million people in West Africa from catastrophic drought. The countries benefitting include Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso...

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will propose that the Government reduce the eligible age for social welfare benefits from 80 to 75. Việt Nam has over 11 million senior citizens and 6.5 million people with...

The number of women benefiting from the government's social and economic support service has so far reached 400,000, while TL 40 million has been allocated to 22 million women within the scope of the half-day work allowance. Women...