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With the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continuing to spread and its impacts upon human health and the economy intensifying day-by-day, governments are urged to treat waste management, including of medical, household and other hazardous waste, as an urgent and essential public service in or

COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Featured , Health , Migration , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 04/12/2020

Rich countries ‘raiding’ developing world’s nurses

Fiona Broom Rich countries are ‘raiding’ nurses from their lower-income neighbours, a global nursing organisation says, leaving parts of the global South with less than 900 nurses for every one million people. The first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report, timed to coincide with World Hea

COVID-19 , Health , Human Rights , Migration , Opinions , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 04/10/2020

In India, fight against corona is a fight for water, against inequality

In the country, 7 percent of the population are without even a basic water supply close to home. About 81 percent rural Indians don’t have a tap connection at home. Indians woke up very late to the threat of corona pandemic, in the first week of March. The first thing that people were advised to

Business , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Economy , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development / 04/09/2020

Half a billion people could be pushed into poverty by coronavirus

Oxfam’s new report ‘Dignity Not Destitution’ presents fresh analysis which suggests between six and eight percent of the global population could be forced into poverty as governments shut down entire economies to manage the spread of the virus. The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemi

Biodiversity , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Sustainable Development / 04/07/2020

Public Calls for Governments to Close Southeast Asia’s Wildlife Markets

A WWF public survey in South East Asian countries show that an overwhelming majority support closure of wildlife markets which are mostly illegal This World Health Day, as the world grapples with the worst public health emergency in recent memory, over 90 percent of respondents surveyed in Southeast

Business , COVID-19 , Health , Science & Technology , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 04/04/2020

Drug companies should drop their patents and collaborate to fight coronavirus

Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London and Andrea Baldini, Nanjing University As the coronavirus pandemic continues to claim victims around the world, the race is on to produce the right medicines to fight it. This includes developing a vaccine to stop people from falling ill in the first place,

Business , COVID-19 , Disasters , Featured , Health , Human Rights , Resources / 04/03/2020

Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies

Christina Jewett and Lauren Weber The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries It took this action more than a week before it announced Thursday that it w

Business , COVID-19 , Disasters , Food , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 04/01/2020

COVID-19 can disrupt world food supply

A joint statement by QU Dongyu, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Roberto Azevedo, Directors-General of FAO, WHO and WTO warn of an impending food crisis and urges measures to mitigate impacts of COVID-19 on food trade and markets Millions of people around the world depend on international trade for th

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Economy , Environment , Featured , Governance , Health , Launches & Events , Refugees , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 03/28/2020

Coronavirus hits a critical year for nature and the climate

Fermín Koop Covid-19 could derail new global agreements on biodiversity, oceans and COP26 climate talks This year’s packed agenda of negotiations on climate change, biodiversity and the global ocean was supposed to address the fortunes of a living world in critical condition. But the coronavir

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Health , Sustainable Development / 03/27/2020

DESTRUCTION OF HABITAT AND LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY ARE CREATING THE PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR DISEASES LIKE COVID-19 TO EMERGE

John Vidal As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the novel coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics Mayibout 2 is not a healthy place. The 150 or so people who live in the village, which sits on the south bank of the Ivindo River, deep in the great Minkebe fores

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