In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret - the cover-up of child deaths with seven killed in the past two months, ...

Reverend Angela Martin of the Maryland Poor People's Campaign takes part in a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Sept 8 (Reuters) - ...

BANGKOK, July 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Phatsanee Phutkaew lost nearly everything she owned 10 years ago when her modest canalside home in Bangkok was damaged by Thailand's worst floods in ...

Web Summit conference hears plans by Danish architecture firm BIG and Chinese tech company Terminus to build an AI-run city in Chongqing Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From robots delivering ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stoning, a form of execution where a group throws stones at a person until they are dead, still happens in parts of the Muslim world, mostly as a punishment for ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery LONDON, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slavery ...

As energy demand grows, with much of it still met from fossil fuels, emissions from building operations hit an all-time high in 2019 ROME, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Planet-warming carbon ...

The inflation diaries: Rising prices are forcing many in Bangladesh to cut costs in the kitchen or seek out subsidised food DHAKA, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unemployed Bangladeshi ...

Farmer Qasim Abdul Wahad looks at one of his date palms which are struggling due to salination and lack of water near the village of Abu Al-Khaseeb in southern Iraq’s Basra governorate, March 6, 2022.

C40 network of mayors said filling up buses and trains that were emptied by the COVID-19 crisis can help cities revitalise their economy and tackle climate change LONDON, March 30 (Thomson Reuters ...

Most countries are at high risk of using slave labour in their supply chains, with North Korea ranked worst in the world LONDON, Aug 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 60 percent of countries ...

Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protests have broken out across Iran over the death of a woman held by morality police for "unsuitable attire", with activists warning of worse to come as the ...