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The UNCTAD15 conference will take place in Barbados under the theme “From inequality and vulnerability to prosperity for all” and will focus on global trade, economic recession and sustainable development especially of the least developed countries. UNCTAD’s 15th quadrennial ministerial confe

Aid , COVID-19 , Economy , Human Rights , Labour , Migration , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 08/17/2020

7 Ways to Reboot the Indian Rural Economy Post COVID-19

Avijit Choudhury As India is primarily an agrarian economy supporting 60% of the population, reviving agriculture and allied sectors would be critical post COVID. As India enters into the 4th phase of lockdown, we are caught between the dilemma of savings lives or protecting livelihoods by keeping t

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

Business , Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Economy , Governance , Labour , Sustainable Development / 08/13/2020

China’s economy is recovering quickly, as are its carbon emissions

Wang Yan Big investments in traditional infrastructures are driving the economy, but a path to green growth remains open Macroeconomic data for the first half of 2020, published on 16 July by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, revealed a striking recovery. Second quarter GDP growth turned po

Biodiversity , COVID-19 , Food , Forests , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Migration , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 08/12/2020

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 been increasing the number of acutely food-insecure people in the world over the past four years. In 2019, according to estimates

Aid , COVID-19 , Governance , Resources , Sustainable Development / 08/07/2020

The international humanitarian response to COVID-19

Fiona Tarpey The global COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis unprecedented in its scale and scope, with particularly dire impacts in fragile and conflict settings. The crisis has also highlighted the critical role of local and frontline humanitarian responders. Yet, the international system has been slow t

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

Business , Climate , COVID-19 , Economy , Environment , Labour , Sustainable Development , Transport / 07/31/2020

We’re flying less. And wild places that count on tourism dollars are starting to take notice

Dimitri Selibas Between flight shaming and a global pandemic, destinations that depend on travellers to protect ecosystems are finding themselves with fewer resources to do so. Rincon del Mar, a beachside hamlet on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, is part of a burgeoning industry that is helping to tur

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

Business , Corruption , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Economy , Labour , Resources , Sustainable Development / 07/24/2020

Who are the Corporate Pandemic profiteers-Big names out there

Pharmaceutical and tech companies and wealthy white Americans benefit from dramatic pandemic profits, further exacerbating inequality While the United States faces the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression because of COVID-19, a subset of corporations is reaping dramatic profits that

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