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COVID 19 is disrupting life-saving immunization services around the world, putting millions of children – in rich and poor countries alike – at risk of diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio. This stark warning comes from the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Biodiversity , Business , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Human Rights , Resources , Sustainable Development / 05/19/2020

GLOBAL FINANCE ENABLING DESTRUCTION OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA RAIN FORESTS

A new investigation from anti-corruption NGO Global Witness has uncovered how global financial institutions – including the likes of Blackrock and the Norway Government Pension Fund – are backing Malaysian banks linked to a hugely destructive logging project in Papua New Guinea, that a

Biodiversity , Business , COVID-19 , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Resources , Sustainable Development / 05/09/2020

Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders

Mauricio Torres and Sue Branford Indigenous land rights have been under constant attack by the government since Bolsonaro took office in January 2019. Even before he took over, the presidential campaigner hinted that he would grab back land from the Indians. FUNAI, Brazil’s indigenous agency,

COVID-19 , Featured , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 04/26/2020

Pandemics and prejudice: When there is an epidemic, social prejudices resurface

Diseases don’t care for race or class. But they continue to be pinned to race, gender, sexual preference and geography In the early 1900s in New York, a strange event took place in the upscale enclaves of Long Island. Many of its denizens began to mysteriously contract typhoid. The emergence of a

Aid , Business , COVID-19 , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 04/24/2020

Governments, private sector and health leaders to ensure everyone can access new vaccines, and treatments for COVID-19

Heads of state and global health leaders today made an commitment to work together to accelerate the development and production of new vaccines, tests and treatments for COVID-19 and assure equitable access worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has already affected more than 2.4 million people, killing o

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

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

Aid , Data & Reports , Food , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 03/11/2020

43 million people face acute hunger: FAO

Acute food insecurity hotspots need urgent attention, with FAO estimating 900 million dollars are required urgently for supporting livelihoods While global attention has focused on the swarms of Desert Locusts attacking crops in East Africa, a number of other countries and regions are also confronti

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