Despite significant progress being made in the fight against Tuberculosis (TB), as we mark this year’s World TB Day and six months on from the first ever United Nations High Level Meeting on TB, it continues to be the world’s deadliest infectious disease, with around 4,500 people losing...
22 March 2019
For most of us, accessing water is as simple as turning the taps on in our kitchens and toilets. But for a large number of the world’s population, access to clean and safe water remains a major challenge. Even as recently as in 2015, at least 844 million people across the world — 12 percent...
22 March 2019
On Friday 15 March thousands of school children and young people in over 100 countries around the world went on strike, taking to the streets to send a strong message that inaction on climate change will not be tolerated. Governments have promised action, but average global temperatures are set...
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19 March 2019
This week marks the Second High-level United Nation Conference on South-South Cooperation, forty years since the initial UN conference on the topic in Buenos Aires. Since then, we have made progress in understanding South-South cooperation and the role of emerging countries in development aid...
18 March 2019
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To begin with, I appreciate everyone who has contributed to the struggle of realising so far, the achievements towards Gender Equality, on International Women’s Day. All those who have written, spoken and supported financially and morally. Balancing unpaid care work Women are mothers of...
13 March 2019
Rarely is it possible to observe such drastic change in a political system as Nepal is currently undergoing. After decades of constitutional monarchy, ruling elites agreed to the principle of federalism in 2008, at the end of the so-called people’s war, and not without another uprising in the...
12 March 2019
