 | 'Women Not Speaking at the Same Table as Men' Means a Widening Digital Gender Gap in Africa Mercedes Sayagues 'Think Bigger', urge the colourful posters on the walls of Ideario, an innovation hub in Chamanculo, a modest neighbourhood in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. The message is right on target for the new female trainees, eager eyes glued to laptop screens as they learn internet and computer ... MORE > > |
 | Kofi Annan, the Last UN Secretary-General Who Paid for His Independence Roberto Savio This testimony to Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, comes a month after his death. Much has already been written, and it is now superfluous to recall his efforts for peace and international cooperation. It is better to place his figure in a crucial context: how the great powers progressively ... MORE > > |
 | Preservation of the Klamath River - a Life or Death Matter for the Yurok People Emilio Godoy Fishermen are scarce in the Klamath River delta, unlike other fishing season, because climate change has driven up water temperatures which kills off the salmon, the flagship species of this region in northern California. The increase in temperatures favours the proliferation of lethal fish ... MORE > > |
 | Global Warming Threatens Europe's Public Health Ed Holt Climate change and health experts are warning of the growing threat to public health in Europe from global warming as rising temperatures help potentially lethal diseases spread easily across the continent. This summer Europe has had to contend with record temperatures, drought, and destructive ... MORE > > |
 | Q&A: Achieving Sustainable Goals: “In the End it is All About People. If People Want, it Will Happen.” Manipadma Jena Today just over two billion people live without readily available, safe water supplies at home. And more than half the world’s population, roughly 4.3 billion people, live in areas where demand for water resources outstrips sustainable supplies for at least part of the year. Yet the world is not ... MORE > > |
 | “Running Out Of Time” - Local Communities Mobilise for the Climate Tharanga Yakupitiyage Local communities across the globe have risen up to demand commitments on climate change, as frustration mounts over the lack of action. Over the next few days, leaders from civil society, local governments, and the private sector will convene in California to highlight the urgency of the threat ... MORE > > |
 | Q&A: As Water Scarcity Becomes the New Normal How Do We Manage This Scarce Resource? Manipadma Jena Growing economies are thirsty economies. And water scarcity has become “the new normal” in many parts of the world, according to Torgny Holmgren executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). As climate change converges with rapid economic and urban development and ...MORE > > |
 | Great Recession, greater illusions Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram In 2009, the world economy contracted by -2.2%. Growth in all developing countries declined from around 8% in 2007 to 2.6% in 2009 as the developed world contracted by -3.8% in 2009. The collapse of the Lehmann Brothers investment bank in September 2008 symbolized the US financial crisis that ...MORE > > |
 | International Law Experts Warn Europe’s ‘Pull Back’ of Migrants is Illegal - Part 2 Maged Srour “The Italian and other European authorities are engaging – on the migration issue – in a policy which has the foreseeable results of numerous deaths.” It is a grim warning from expert on international law, refugees and migration issues, and member of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), Itamar ... MORE > > |
 | Salmon Farming, Questioned in Chile, Arrives to Argentina Daniel Gutman Questioned for its environmental and health impacts in Chile, where it is one of the country's main economic activities, salmon farming is preparing to expand in Argentina from Norway, the world's largest farmed salmon producer. The news has triggered a strong reaction from civil society ... MORE > > |
 | ‘All the Roads Leading to Agadez and Italy are Dangerous’ Issa Sikiti da Silva El Adama Diallo left his home in Senegal on Oct. 28, 2016, with dreams of reaching Europe in his heart and a steely determination that made him take an alternative, dangerous route to get there despite the absence of regular migration papers in his pocket. It was a journey that took him from ... MORE > > |
 | Four-Year Drought Forces Cuba to Find Ways to Build Resilience Ivet González Eastern Cuba has suffered drought since time immemorial. But the western and central regions of the island used to be almost free of the phenomenon, until the latest drought that plagued this country between 2014 and 2017. "For the first time drought is seen as a major threat, due to the ... MORE > > |
 | UN Begins Talks on World’s First Treaty to Regulate High Seas Thalif Deen After several years of preliminary discussions, the United Nations has begun its first round of inter-governmental negotiations to draft the world’s first legally binding treaty to protect and regulate the “high seas”—which, by definition, extend beyond 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) and are ... MORE > > |
 | Migrants as Messengers Explain the Dangers of Irregular Migration IPS World Desk Migrants as Messengers is a peer-to-peer messaging campaign by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where returning migrants share with their communities and families the dangers, trauma and abuse that many experienced while attempting irregular migration. The stories are candid ...MORE > > |
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