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🟠On the International #YouthDay2022 interviewed three inspiring #Youth4EiE Advocates from #Ecuador🇪🇨 #Lebanon🇱🇧and #Malawi🇲🇼
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While #farmers struggle to defend their #crops from pests, scientists from the Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT () have created an easy-to-use tool to detect banana pests and diseases.
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Publication day! A new biography celebrating the life of BRAC's founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, released today by . The author shares his reflections about Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty
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#Pandemic and poverty fuel #childlabor in #Peru🇵🇪
As per official figures, children & adolescents involved in child labor number 870,000 nationwide, some 210,000 more than in 2019.
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The National Water Authority () says it will drill 35,000 boreholes by 2025 countrywide, focusing on parched #rural areas where erratic rainfall has affected both people & livestock. However, there is concern about groundwater levels.
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🇺🇳 to host over 190 world leaders & delegates - despite threats from a deadly new #COVID19 variant.
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#EastAfrican Countries Seek Cross-border Cooperation to Combat #Wildlife Trafficking.
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Another #health crisis is certain to come, & the world needs to learn lessons of #COVID19 #pandemic to be better prepared next time.
Following civil society advocacy, an agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness & response is being drafted.
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🇵🇭#Philippines: Alliance of two #autocratic dynasties takes power after glorifying repressive past.
Their victory was fruit of a long #disinformation campaign aimed at rehabilitating memory of dictatorship era by claiming fictitious achievements.
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#Palestine: activism gone digital.
Technology is playing a key role in #humanrights work – & bringing backlash.
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Millions on the brink of starvation as 🇸🇴#Somalia experiences its worst #drought in decades, causing massive #displacement.
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🔴Civil Society Holding the Line in Contested Times: 2022 State of Civil Society Report.
#Economy | #Democracy | Challenging #Exclusion | #Environment | Global #Governance
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Narrow valuation of #nature is widening #biodiversity loss - warns Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature.
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#India & #China continue to lead –as world population projected to reach 8.0 billion.
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#WorldPopulationDay2022
Five takeaways from the 2022 State of Civil Society Report by .
#Energy | #SocialUnrest | #Democracy | #Justice | #Equality | #ClimateAction | #UN |
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Thousands of #UK workers join a 6-month trial to test viability of the four-day workweek.
Is this the future of work?
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#Migrant workers from 🇲🇽#Mexico, caught up in #trafficking, #forcedlabor & #exploitation.
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#Wild species central to human survival. New Report offers options for their #sustainable use.
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#Colombia’s historic left turn: The victory of #GustavoPetro in June 2022 presidential election represents the arrival of the left in power for the first time in the country’s modern history.
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🇪🇨#Ecuador:
Negotiations bring uneasy truce after more than two weeks of protests but divisions remain.
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It’s now over half a year since #Sudan’s military halted the country’s transition to #democracy, dismissing the government & arresting the prime minister. Little real progress has been made since.
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📌Save the date: High Level Political Forum hosted by alongside .
🔴Lessons in #Development from #GlobalSouth.
Moderated by IPS' Vice Chair, Farhana H. Rahman.
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🟢 to Release New Assessments on the Values of #Biodiversity & #Sustainable Use of #WildSpecies.
🟡IPS interview to Dr. Anne Larigauderie, Executive Secretary of IPBES: bit.ly/3y9H2gB
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🟢With world facing #biodiversity crisis, is ramping up collaboration with private sector agencies & philanthropic foundations to support science-based, #sustainable decision-making research.
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"Sharing Minds Can Change the World".
Read the opinion by Elena Seungeun Lee & Julie Hyunsung Lee, high school learners living in Asia.
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#COVID19 threatens to erase decades of progress towards #GenderEquality.
Women must be included in decision-making processes to ensure pandemic recovery plans don't leave girls & women behind.
More from Women Deliver Board Chair here: bit.ly/3yjs5K1
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#Transgender people gain their place in #Argentine society.
In 2012, Argentina’s #Gender Identity Law allowed people to change their gender, name & photo on identity documents, without need for medical tests, surgeries or hormone treatments.
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🟠Recent eviction debacle involving #Maasai community in Loliondo division in #Tanzania’s #Ngorongoro District has elevated #indigenous people’s concerns about losing ancestral lands under ‘30by30’ plan in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
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“#Women’s contribution to #biodiversity is often questioned because underreported & undervalued."
📌Centering #gender in the next biodiversity agenda: a long way to Montreal➡️bit.ly/3xYxB3u
#GenderEquality | #WomensRights
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Urgent global call to save 222 million dreams for #children impacted by crises.
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#educationforall | #SDG4 | #Education
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"Major focus was to leverage #drone #technology to support smallholder #farmers in increasing their productivity"
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"#Plastic Pollution Will Kill All of Us!"
Opinion article by learners from middle and high schools in #Asia and #USA.
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#Disability inclusion lifts #rural Ugandan families from #poverty.
🔴 supports people in need with primary livelihood assets like goats, cattle, pigs, and cash for petty trade - creating a pathway out of extreme poverty.
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