From the 2020 U.S. Presidential election to the COVID-19 pandemic, social media bots have been found to sway public opinion on key global events. But how did we get here, and what rules are in ...

In February a now-infamous photo made its rounds on social media. Posted by US Vice President Mike Pence, the image, which showed the members of the US Coronavirus Taskforce, left many asking a ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stoning, a form of execution where a group throws stones at a person until they are dead, still happens in parts of the Muslim world, mostly as a punishment ...

A dairy cow of the Holstein breed stands in a field in Montitier, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, near Le Mont-Saint-Michel, France April 18, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal ...

Almost 400 leaders of the world’s main religions say countries should also scrap laws that criminalise same-sex relations LONDON, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 400 global ...

Meg Lewis is Campaigns Manager at Labour Behind the Label, a group that works to improve conditions and empower workers in the global garment industry. Stark figures from the Clean Clothes ...

NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Examples like this don’t just undermine the credibility of ESG. They also make it much ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The damaged furniture and mud-caked walls left by floodwaters have now been replaced or cleaned in Elizabeth Chong's family home, but lost ...

BANGKOK, July 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Phatsanee Phutkaew lost nearly everything she owned 10 years ago when her modest canalside home in Bangkok was damaged by Thailand's worst floods in ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery LONDON, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

Aidan McQuade is an expert on slavery and forced labour and former director of Anti-Slavery International. No one who has ever dealt with the challenges of agricultural livelihoods in the global ...