World | WPN World People News

Save the Children believes the Presidential Executive Order addressing family separation achieves one thing: further harming already vulnerable children.

A Rohingya woman and her child at a makeshift camp outside Sittwe in Myanmar's western Rakhine State.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (2nd left) meets with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of the Russia Federation in Moscow.

European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli presents the SDG flag he flew abroad the International Space Station to UNOOSA Director Simonetta Di Pippo.

Anti-Slavery International has worked for almost a decade on protecting children who are forced by their schoolmasters in their Koranic school to beg on the streets in Senegal, West Africa, making them vulnerable to abuse. But the issue is prevalent in adjoining countries too, where forced- begging is a common practice.

Representatives from across the North and South Pacific gathered on Monday to witness the launch of the first-ever Pacific Regional Food Security Atlas on the opening day of the Pacific Seed Forum in Nadi, Fiji.

Eight European Union countries will meet in Brussels Sunday to discuss Europe's largest migration crisis since World War II, a development that could affect the increasingly heated political disagreements among EU nations over the controversial issue.

British Prime Minister Theresa May told members of parliament Wednesday the United States' practice of housing children in cages is extremely troubling and inappropriate.

Following days of fierce global criticism, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end his policy of family separations along the U.S.-Mexico border.