One year after actor Colin Firth launched a campaign to save the Awá, " Earth’s most threatened tribe", other celebrities have joined him in backing the cause.

A new era of high and volatile global food prices go beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and are causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn today.

European leaders' decisions today to crack down on tax dodging "will do little to help poor countries", says an international development charity.

The certification system run by the Responsible Jewellery Council - which meets in Milan on 23 May - is misleading consumers, say labour and environmental groups.

At least $18.5 trillion is hidden by wealthy individuals in tax havens worldwide, representing a loss of more than $156 billion in tax revenue, according to new figures.

Ask someone to describe Google and they’ll probably talk about a search engine that saved the web. Few would describe it as a highly-efficient, profit-driven business machine.

On Thursday the world will celebrate ten years of fighting fistula, a foul condition that affects up to 3 million women and girls in the Global South. But there are questions [...]

Mara Samba Diallo is an unlikely human rights activist. Married at 12 and living in a remote Senegalese village, all she has in her armoury is her own story.