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The Global Learning XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to develop open source and scalable software that will enable children...

A new mobile app could make childbirth safer in Ethiopia, home to one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world. “Safe...

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An estimated one in three women and girls worldwide report suffering physical or sexual abuse, most often at the hands of an intimate...

Getting aid to impoverished Africans is hard enough, what with blockades of bureaucracy and red tape. But in many African countries, bad...

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The Commonwealth spans every region of the world and has a population of some 2.2 billion people – an estimated one-third of the world’s...

Nominations are now open for the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work, which recognise outstanding young...

Regional winner of the Commonwealth short story prize, Stefanie Seddon writes about her experience at Calabash alongside Man Booker...

A Canada-based scheme that funds mobility scholarships for projects promoting global leadership between Canada and the Commonwealth has...

Establishing a youth desk in every government ministry so young people can influence policy, ring-fencing at least 17% of GDP for...

Young leaders from across the Commonwealth have come together to establish two new Commonwealth Youth Networks, one focused on Health,...

Vancouver Island branch member Donna Petroski, seen here receiving the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award from His Excellency,...

How health and education policies can end the scourge of female genital mutilation (FGM) will be the big question on the Commonwealth’s...

Andrew Harper has a staff of 600, a budget of more than $280 million,and an office littered with color-coded maps marked by hand-drawn...

Earth Overshoot Day isn’t one of those fun holidays, like International Cat Day or Squirrel Appreciation Day. Instead, it’s a depressing...

Refugees arriving in Germany likely treat their smartphones as a lifeline and a way to break the ice with locals in their host country....

Over the past decade, China with its growing new consumer class has represented an exciting and vast new marketing opportunity for luxury...

We have a bias towards stories of African innovation in the sense of big ideas, creative vision, entrepreneurship and homegrown, globally...