Cities need net-zero commitments as climate induced internally displaced people keeps increasing

Women and girls make up over half of the world’s IDPs, 5 million IDPs are living with disabilities, an estimated 2.6 million are elderly, and over 30.5 million are children and youth. As world governments sharpen their negotiation skills to bargain for better deals for their respective countries and regions, I would suggest cities to… Continue reading Cities need net-zero commitments as climate induced internally displaced people keeps increasing

Sex for water: Humanity’s new low in Libyan refugee centres

This July, as the world was preparing to celebrate eleven years of ‘Human Right to Water’- recognized by the UN – an investigation into detention camps in Libya made some shocking revelations that would shame the civilized world.  Refugees and migrants are being forced to trade sex for water, the Amnesty International report found out!… Continue reading Sex for water: Humanity’s new low in Libyan refugee centres

Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change

In the next three decades, it is expected, humanity would have turned an exclusively urban species.  By then almost 80 to 90 percent of people would be living in urban areas.  At the moment, cities in the Global South are growing much faster than they did in industrialized countries 100 or more years ago.  The… Continue reading Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change