Last year the global trade in carbon reduction credits generated more than $64-billion, but Africa has attracted almost none of these investments.

"Africa needs to realise that without dealing with the issue of women, there will be no progress in turning HIV/Aids around," says the United Nations special envoy for HIV/Aids…

There is wide recognition that Africa, the region least responsible for generating the polluting "greenhouse gases" that cause global warming, will need significant financial aid…

The international campaign for equal rights for homosexuals and other sexual minorities took a step forward on November 14 last year when South Africa became the first country in…

The world took a giant step towards eliminating impunity for human rights abuses when the International Criminal Court opened its first official hearing, in November, in a case…