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Transportation industry roped in to counter wildlife trafficking

Global transport leaders sign historic declaration at Buckingham Palace in fight to shut down Illegal wildlife trafficking routes A declaration at Buckingham Palace committing leaders of the transportation industry globally to taking major steps to fight illicit wildlife trafficking.  A game change

From Zorro to Zombie: the rise and fall of the microcredit movement

Milford Bateman, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia The global microcredit industry has achieved nothing more for the mass of clients than to plunge them into deep debt and irretrievable poverty. This is part of a series The Conversation Africa is running on financial inclusion and micro cred

Which wealthy countries have the best and worst development policies?

Where do donor countries stand in a barometer-Denmark has the most development-friendly policies while South Korea, Japan and US ranks poorly The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) for 2015 ranks the policies of donor countries especially when the Paris Climate deal, the SDG goals and the globa

The Paris climate agreement at a glance

Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; James Whitmore, The Conversation; Michael Hopkin, The Conversation, and Wes Mountain, The Conversation On December 12, 2015 in Paris, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change finally came to a landmark agreement. Signed by 196 nations, the Paris Ag

UN launches 2016 humanitarian appeal asking for $20.1 billion, the highest request ever

More than 125 million people in the world need humanitarian assistance. This will require a record US$20.1 billion in funding – five times the amount a decade ago. Through collective and coordinated action, aid organisations aim to bring urgent help to more than 87.6 million of the most vulnerable

The Story of a Solar Fridge: Film

Vincent Urban DR Congo is often a forgotten crisis. It doesn’t show up much in the news, but millions of people continue to be forced from their homes cut off from health care and other essentials because of ongoing waves of violence. In October 2015, I accompanied the humanitarian organisati

Sustainable Development Goals, an opportunity for transnational solidarity

Civil society activists share their ideas and strategies on SDG implementation-the need to think without a box and talking eye to eye A two day conference (6-7 November 2015) on SDGs and transnational activism in Berlin got together an exciting mix of open culture initiatives where activists a

Indigenous Baka people report more abuse despite assurances

In new video testimonies, Baka “Pygmies” in southeast Cameroon have reported ongoing abuse and torture at the hands of wildlife officers World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has helped to create a new protected area without the consent of the Baka or their neighbors. Baka living to the south of th

Social protection can eradicate hunger: FAO

Poverty among those employed in fisheries remains widespread globally At least 368 million children receive food at school each day In Zambia, a cash-grants program led households to increase livestock ownership In rural Brazil, gender inequalities reduced by making mandatory joint ownership of

Every year, 5-7 trillion US$ or Japan’s entire GDP is needed for fulfilling SDGs

Developing and emerging economies are leading a quiet revolution to forge robust and sustainable financial systems for 21st century needs but who will foot the SDG bill? The first ever report on sustainable financial systems The Financial System we Need  was released by the United Nations Envi

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