In the last two decades, wage inequalities have decreased in two-thirds of all countries, most notably in low-income ones, where wage gaps have shrunk by an average of up to 10% per year.
Progress is being made to reduce the prevalence of child marriage in India.
Global food security improved in 2024 amid a strong year overall for food production.
Somalia and Ethiopia have agreed to restore diplomatic ties.
Poland's capital has seen the lowest rate of road deaths since the city began collecting statistics in the 1980s.
The unemployment rate across the European Union’s 27 countries in 2023 reached its lowest point in over thirty years following a steady decline over a decade.
The President of Zimbabwe approved a law abolishing the death penalty with immediate effect, a decision hailed as a major milestone in ending this ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment.
The population of Sierra Leone exploded with joy when the World Health Organization declared the West African country finally Ebola-free after containing the outbreak that devasted the nation for a year and a half.
Indonesia is deploying its ambitious program providing free meals to schoolchildren and pregnant women, a plan which will feed a quarter of the population once in full swing in 2029.
$118 million has been secured to support over one million displaced people and refugees in seven eastern African countries.