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Why the Coronavirus Should Worry Us All
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of MERS virus particles (yellow) both budding and attached to the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (blue). Credit: NIAID
By Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Jan 21 2020 – The coronavirus outbreak — which began ...
Geneva Staff Battles UN Chief over Unequal Pay & Illegal Salary Cuts
Credit: United Nations
By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jan 20 2020 – As the United Nations commemorates its 75th anniversary this year, the financially-crippled Organization is also saddled with a rash of administrative problems, plus an ongoing ...
UN Special Rapporteur Offers Assistance to Indian Supreme Court in Case of Rohingya Deportation
The United Nations on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance has recently offered her assistance to the Indian Supreme Court in a long hearing about India deporting Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. Pictured here are Rohingya refugee ...
Pro-Growth Demographic Dogma
By Joseph ChamieNEW YORK, Jan 20 2020 – Whenever the issue of population comes up, pro-growth demographic dogma invariably dominates. Governments, political parties, businesses, the media and many others typically praise population growth and lament ...
Slovak Journalist’s Trial a Fundamental Moment to Prove if Country can Punish Crimes Designed to Silence Journalists
A protester in the Slovak capital, Bratislava holds up a picture of murdered journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in protests across the country in the weeks after the killing, eventually ...
From Digital Diplomacy to Data Diplomacy
By Cathryn Clüver AshbrookCAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan 20 2020 – The digital revolution arrived late at the heart of ministries of foreign affairs across the Western world. Ministries latched on to social media around the time of Tahrir Square ...
Empowering Women in Poor Communities & Building Resilience Against Climate Pressure
Credit: Mahila Housing Trust
By Bijal BrahmbhattAHMEDABAD, India, Jan 17 2020 – As global temperatures continue to rise, vulnerable populations around the world are facing increasingly complex climate risks – with ongoing droughts in Zimbabwe ...
BIOGAS: Cow Dung Holds the Key to Nepal’s Green Economy
A company in Pokhara has enlarged household digesters into an industrial scale plant that uses climate-friendly technology that could ultimately be scaled nationwide to reduce Nepal’s balance of trade gap.
By Kunda DixitKASKI, Nepal, Jan 17 2020 ...
Women Activists Escalate Demand for “Bodily Autonomy” as 19 Nations Dissent
Credit: UN Women
By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 2020 – The United States and 18 other UN member states have come under fire for denying a woman’s legitimate right to “bodily autonomy”—the right to self-governance over one’s own ...
Genuine Reform Culture Lacking in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe needs urgent economic and political reforms to transform its economy amidst a growing national crisis, researchers say as more than 7 million Zimbabwean are food insecure owing to a projected 50 percent fall in the 2019 cereal harvest. Credit: ...
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