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An infestation of “boring beetles” means the bamboo in almost every shelter in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar – home to around 240,000 families – needs to be replaced. With just over four months to go until the beginning of the next monsoon season, the race is on to provide fami

Biodiversity , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Launches & Events , Sustainable Development / 12/19/2018

Brazil launches operation to save surviving members of uncontacted tribe

Brazilian authorities have completed a rare ground operation to protect an uncontacted tribe from violent ranchers in a region of the Amazon with the highest rate of illegal deforestation in the country. But there are growing fears that unless the remaining steps in the land protection process fo

Corruption , Gender , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 12/17/2018

UNAIDS leader to resign next year after review voices “no confidence”

Laura Owings An independent panel report, identified systematic bullying, abuse and sexual harassment under his watch. Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS, the agency overseeing the global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, will step down from his post in June 2019, the agency announce

Business , Corruption , Environment , Featured , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 12/05/2018

Calls for Police Protection for Uncontacted Tribe

Survival has launched an emergency action, “4 weeks for the Kawahiva”, to encourage Brazil’s government to map out their land and prevent their genocide before Jair Bolsonaro becomes President on 1 January.

Aid , Education , Human Rights , Labour , Migration , Refugees , Sustainable Development / 12/01/2018

Remittances and migration: the case of Nepal

To reach their place of work, Nepalese international workers must often pay fees for airfares, recruitment agencies, medical exams and orientation training. There are also often long and costly waiting times for passports and visas.

Data & Reports , Featured , Gender , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development / 11/26/2018

Global wage growth lowest since 2008: ILO

But, in many low- and middle-income economies, wage inequality remains high and wages are frequently insufficient to cover the needs of workers and their families.

Data & Reports , Education , Featured , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Sanitation , Sustainable Development , Water / 11/19/2018

620 million children’s education and health compromised by lack of decent school toilets

The health, education and safety of millions of children around the world is threatened because they don’t have a decent toilet at school or at home, according to WaterAid’s State of the World’s Toilets 2018 report. The Crisis in the Classroom, WaterAid’s fourth-annual analysis of the world�

Corruption , Energy , Environment , Human Rights , Resources / 11/09/2018

Indian Environmental activist assaulted by coal mafia

Environmental and social activist, Agnes Kharshiing fighting to safeguard environment and was probing illegal coal mining in the state of Meghalaya was brutally assaulted by the coal mafia On the 8th November afternoon, 30-40 miscreants attacked Civil Society Women’s Organization’s Agnes

Gender , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 10/13/2018

Innovation in Maternal Healthcare – Starts with a Chair in Bangladesh

Ishrat Jahan Through a midwifery led center in Mirpur, the Developing Midwives Project is trying to change how women can experience childbirth – and it begins with a chair. Inside the winding pathways of Darrusalam, Dhaka, BRAC, among its various maternal and child healthcare interventions, has

Environment , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development , Water / 10/11/2018

Indian Environmental Activist G D Agarwal passes away fasting for saving Ganga

These #martyrs of a lost cause, fighting #battles with #science and #religious sentiment together , against an obdurate and entrenched #bureaucracy, #politicians with double speak, a people resigned and full of indifference and apathy, dreaming of a clean and free flowing #river, was the stuff of le

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