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Society Kazakhstan

7. November 2025

A Win for Women’s Rights: Forced Marriages Are Coming to an End

In a major step toward gender equality, lawmakers and activists in Kazakhstan are moving to outlaw bride kidnapping — a long-standing custom that has devastated countless women’s lives and families.

Muetaz Mhd Semir, the Syrian-born owner of Amerogn Chicken, has expanded his restaurant chain to eight branches in Ethiopia

Society Ethiopia

5. November 2025

New Work Rights Open Doors for Thousands of Refugees

In Ethiopia, a groundbreaking directive is transforming refugee lives by granting, for the first time, the legal right to work, run businesses, and earn fair wages.

Sri Lankan Women War Survivors Work As De-Miners After The Civil Conflict

Society Sri Lanka

4. November 2025

Landmines Cleared, Lives and Land Restored

In Sri Lanka, the clearance of 300,000 landmines marks a decisive step toward healing and renewal after decades of civil conflict.

Society Burkina Faso

3. November 2025

Marriage Equality for All: Legal Age Raised to 18

A landmark reform in Burkina Faso has set the legal age of marriage at 18 for both girls and boys, ending a long-standing gender gap and advancing child protection.

Society USA

1. November 2025

Gun Deaths Plunge to Record Low

For the first time in a decade, the United States is on track for its lowest number of shooting deaths since 2015.

Group of Vietnamese schoolboys, South Vietnam

Society Vietnam

31. October 2025

Education Lifts Millions Out of Poverty

Vietnam has achieved one of the most remarkable poverty reductions in modern history — cutting extreme poverty from over 45% in the early 1990s to about 1% by 2022, largely through decades of sustained investment in education and rural development.

Society Europe & Central Asia

29. October 2025

Child Poverty Halved Across These Regions

Child poverty across Europe and Central Asia has dropped by nearly half in the past decade, marking one of the region’s most significant social achievements.

Society Morocco

27. October 2025

New Generation of Learning: Preschool Enrollment Soars

A bold national commitment to universal preschool access is transforming early education for children across Morocco.

Drone Aerial View of a Container Port, Shenzhen, China

Society The World

25. October 2025

Global Trade Growth Defies All Predictions

Global trade is surging far beyond expectations this year, with the volume of goods traded rising by 5% in the first seven months of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024.

Portrait of a schoolgirl having lunch in the cafeteria at school

Society Brazil

23. October 2025

Beating Hunger by Empowering Small Farmers

Brazil has achieved a remarkable comeback, leaving the UN Hunger Map just three years after 33 million people were going to bed hungry.