Aid
Billionaires need to feed the hungry
Ikhtiar Mohammad While there are millions who cannot afford bread and butter even once a day, there are others who have ample wealth which […]
Category: Health
COVID-19
One stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds, according to first ever UN estimates
Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year – or 1 every 16 seconds – according to the first ever joint stillbirth estimates released by UNICEF, WHO, […]
Aid
New global index shows catastrophic failure to tackle inequality across countries
Norway tops index, United States flails at 26, South Sudan ranks last, majority of world’s countries are woefully unprepared for COVID-19 Very low spending […]
Aid
Leaked report: US halts funding to WWF, WCS and other Conservation NGOs over abuses
This news comes days after the UN Summit on Biodiversity, where numerous heads of government supported WWF and WCS’s call to declare 30% of the Earth […]
COVID-19
Adapting and responding to the pandemic: civic spaces in Southeast Asia
Nicola Nixon Focusing on health, food, and information needs, CSOs throughout the region have been working since the first outbreak to help minimise the […]
COVID-19
Boost for global response to COVID-19 as economies worldwide formally sign up to COVAX facility
By allowing participating economies to pool financial and scientific resources, the COVAX facility will help secure successful vaccines faster and more cost-effectively, and allow them to be distributed...
Aid
$ 200 Millions WB Loan for Bangladesh to help Water and Sanitation Access
The credit is from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), which provides concessional financing, has a 30-year term, including a five-year grace period. Bangladesh […]
COVID-19
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 […]
Biodiversity
If food is the vaccine, forests conserved by indigenous communities is what we need the most!
Ranjan Panda & Pragati Prava The Covid pandemic has aggravated the hunger crisis in the world. Conflicts, climate change and economic downturn had already […]
Cities
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 […]
Disasters
Why alluvial flood plains of north Bihar, India need alternative sanitation system
Flood is a recurring threat to the sustainability of open defecation free status in Bihar. Unique toilets, built on elevation, can show the way […]
COVID-19
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 […]