While the magnitude of the earthquake that hit Haiti was extreme, the worst in the region in 200 years, what heavily contributed to the devastation of the quake was the...

25-year-old Natalie was buried for seven days in Port au Prince amongst rubble from the Haitian earthquake. She survived after local and international Search and Rescue teams worked for 12...

Major international sports are always high stakes events ... but they can all too easily turn into a security nightmare. The UN 21st Century team travelled to the European Champions...

The earthquake in Haiti was catastrophic for all Haitians, and the United Nations suffered, too. The headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) was destroyed, burying hundreds...

For a decade, the lives of young Cambodian women were transformed by jobs in the textile industry. But the global economic crisis changed all that, threatening to undo ten years...

In the late afternoon of January 12th, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the small the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing an estimated 300,000 people, and affecting one third of the...

War-torn Afghanistan is an unlikely vacation destination, but the first and only female governor of the country Dr. Habiba Sorabi is reviving tourism in the hopes of boosting the local...

Sexual violence is the hallmark of conflict in Eastern Congo. Some women seek medical help for their injuries, but very few go further and demand justice for their attackers'...

50 years ago the mangrove forests on Haiti's north coast, critical to the preservation and survival of sea life, were destroyed almost completely for charcoal use. Mangroves act as a...

Bolivia's glaciers are sacred, breathtaking, and essential to the survival of thousands of people who depend on the water the glaciers provide. Some people are already feeling the disastrous effects,...

Vulnerable, small island nations, like those in the Caribbean are amongst those being hit hardest by climate change. In the tiny country of Grenada, Hurricane Ivan wiped out crops, homes,...

In September 2009, Typhnoon Ketsana hit Vietnam killing 162 people. While typhoons and other natural disasters are often seasonal, in Vietnam, the weather has become so wildly unpredictable because of...

They fled violence in Iraq and became stranded in the desert. Until recently, that was the lot of several hundred Palestinian refugees. But some of them have found a...

(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: February 18, 2010) Dubai's police chief claims there is a 99% certainty that the Israeli Mossad intelligence service was behind the murder of visiting Hamas...

The horror that occurred during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda - brutal and widespread sexual violence - has left a devastating legacy that is still felt throughout the country. Over...