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In the long run, the abuse of science and technology is severely harming women and it is increasingly harder to compensate this by offering the emancipatory image of an inclusive public space driven by media and science. Women are not being able to utilize these benefits and remain disengaged due to

Aid , Business , Cities , Climate , Gender , Monitoring , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 08/15/2020

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development failing in its gender framework commitments

Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath Evidence of meaningful implementation of the Gender Action Plan for EBRD and GCF’s Green Cities Framework – not found Knowledge is power. Informing women and men about the opportunities and risks of development projects should be the first step to empowering them to prote

COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Education , Gender , Health , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/14/2020

Millions of children may return to a school with nowhere to wash their hands

Children returning to school this September may find a very different classroom to the ones they left, with socially distanced desks and a renewed focus on handwashing. But in thousands of schools around the world, even this most basic defence against Covid-19 will be out of reach for millions of st

Cities , COVID-19 , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 08/05/2020

Britain’s public toilet shame: time for equal access to decent facilities for all

Natalie Boyd Williams, University of Stirling; Heather Roxburgh, University of Stirling, and Jennifer Dickie, University of Stirling Research work exploring sustainable ways of managing human waste, pointed to an important topic for reflection post lockdown: the inadequate provision of safe, clean p

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Environment , Food , Forests , Gender , Labour , Sustainable Development / 08/05/2020

How are farmers responding to COVID-19?

Pavel Devyatkin The cases from Ecuador, Ghana and Nepal show that the impacts of the pandemic are different for women, indigenous peoples and rural populations. Forest and farm producer organizations, known as FFPOs, and the people they represent, produce 70 percent of the world’s food while using

COVID-19 , Environment , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Opinions , Refugees , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 07/27/2020

Ensuring right to water during pandemics and beyond

It is the 10th anniversary of the recognition of human rights to water and sanitation and our approaches to ensuring water and sanitation during this pandemic should therefore be based on a rights regime and people should be provided with water that is safe. It should be supplied by adhering to the

Aid , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Education , Gender , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 07/13/2020

COVID brings Unprecedented Global Education Emergency

Almost 10 Million Children May Never Return to School Following COVID-19 Lockdown Deep budget cuts to education and rising poverty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could force at least 9.7 million children out of school forever by the end of this year, with millions more falling behind in learning, S

COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Gender , Human Rights , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 05/24/2020

SDG setback ‘tremendous’ as COVID-19 accelerates slide

Gareth Willmer & Fiona Broom Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled, the United Nations Secretary-General warns in a new report, as the COVID-19 outbreak moves from being a health crisis to becoming the “worst human and economic

Data & Reports , Gender , Health , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 12/14/2019

WHO urges focus on pregnant women, children to wipe out malaria

Inga Vesper Global malaria eradication efforts should focus on children and pregnant women to fight the most persistent pockets of the disease, a World Health Organization (WHO) report has urged. The Global Malaria Report 2019, launched in Switzerland, found that, despite drops i

Climate , Data & Reports , Economy , Education , Featured , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Labour , Migration , Refugees , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 12/09/2019

To answer global protests, tackle new inequalities — UN report

The new UN report on Human Development is a stark warning on the growing new inequalities that can push countries and societies into an abyss. There is an urgent need to address the inequalities now. The demonstrations sweeping across the world today signal that, despite unprecedented progress again

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