On 13 February 2017, the Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Dr. Farhadi, presented the 30th Kharazmi International Award to this year’s distinguished laureates. The Kharazmi International Award, administered... read more →
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, recalling the potential of tourism to advance the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development... read more →
Continuing uncertainty over travel restrictions to the U.S. is forcing international nongovernmental organizations to rethink staff deployments and disaster response, with some saying it places additional strain on their ability... read more →
The United Nations has launched a $511 million international appeal for humanitarian mine action in conflict and post-conflict settings for 2017, a 50 per cent increase from last year's $347... read more →
By Serge R. Nakouzi, The FAO Representative to Iran and to ECO Roughly one-third of the food produced around the world for human consumption, amounting to about 1.3 billion tons,... read more →
'Female engineers and computer programmers wanted,' is the call from a new United Nations report that shows women are increasingly graduating with life science degrees, but still rare in engineering... read more →
The delegations of Russia, Turkey and Iran as well as United Nations representatives held their first meeting to discuss the establishment of a ceasefire implementation regime in Syria that was... read more →
The United Nations condemned yesterday’s suicide attack outside the Supreme Court complex in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and stressed that those behind the deadly bombing must be held to account.... read more →
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres deeply regretted the adoption by Israel’s legislative body, the Knesset, of the so called “Regularization bill,” saying the measure contravenes international law and will have “far-reaching legal... read more →
NGO Advisor's new annual ranking of the world’s top NGOs yields important and even unexpected insights for the development community. The list — published each year since 2011 — aims to... read more →