Early efforts with REDD+ are helping secure forest land tenure in Brazil

Refugees need resources to support them in their efforts to become self-sufficient

With 45.2 million displaced by violence, persecution or rights abuses, the number of refugees is higher than at any time since 1994, says UNHCR

While the message from this week's G8 was largely positive, action is now needed to push home the anti-corruption agenda

For indigenous communities in Latin America, reaping the benefits of timber depends not only on tenure rights, but on how well they deal with markets

From transparency and tax avoidance to an insight into Latin America's longest-running conflict, take a look at what Thomson Reuters Foundation correspondents are working on this week

Turns out the car’s not so bad after all, as long as you follow a few rules

Thomson Reuters Foundation sponsored its first ever journalism training class in Paraguay.

After more than two decades imprisoned in small rooms, a southern Indian girl becomes a famous female poet, activist, politician and the subject of a powerful documentary

Nearly all countries insisted that tangles, like that caused by Russia, must be avoided

Blair Glencorse analyses the governance problems plaguing Nepal’s universities and argues for higher education to be made a crucial concern on the post-MDG agenda

Putin vs. Pussy Riot: Why the hard crackdown?

The fight against money laundering has involved civil servants drafting reams of highly technical but ineffective regulations

Data must be available and user-friendly so that developing countries can follow the money, strengthen accountability and deliver improved development results

If corruption were punished by death - as it is in some cases in China - would you report the infraction?

Talking to a 10-year-old Indian rape victim - who was put in a jail cell when she reported the crime - is deeply upsetting for both the girl and the reporter

Planning for major heat waves can save lives

Thousands of monitoring stations across the continent create potential for Africa to have increased supplies of food, stronger economies and greater stability for its people

We are not acting boldly enough or quickly enough to avert an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe. Here’s a roadmap

Extractive transparency campaigners celebrate as the European Parliament signs off on a law to force companies to publish what they pay