Bridging Africa’s Great Gender-Financing Divide
Soi Cate Chelang, a self-taught palette seat designer and carpenter, hard at work. She says that even after a decade of running her business she is unable to get bank credit to expand. Her situation is not a unique one in Africa. Credit: Miriam ...
“For Generations, We Have Been Nominating Men Just Because They are Men”
Ms. Marlene Schiappa. Credit: UN Women/Antoine Tardy
By External SourceJan 21 2020 – Marlène Schiappa, Minister of State for Gender Equality and the Fight against Discrimination in France, attended the 25th year Regional Review Meeting ...
Ending Bullying and Humiliation over Menstruation as Girls and Boys in Conservative Eswatini are Educated about Reproductive Health
Nomcebo Mkhaliphi posing with girls from the Kwaluseni Infantry Primary School in Eswatini. Courtesy: Nomcebo Mkhaliphi
By Mantoe PhakathiMBABANE , Jan 21 2020 – When 14-year-old Nomcebo Mkhaliphi first noticed the blood discharged ...
School Lunch Programmes for Progress
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Wan Manan MudaKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 21 2020 – If well planned, coordinated and implemented, a government funded school feeding programme for all primary school children can be progressively transformative. ...
UN Report: Rising Inequality Affects More Than 70% of the Globe
Women ragpickers in Delhi scavenging through a pile of refuse for recyclable material. Credit: Dharmendra Yadav/IPS
By External SourceNEW YORK, Jan 21 2020 – Inequality is growing for more than 70 per cent of the global population, exacerbating ...
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 — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
