NEWS
Canada and global vaccine equity: timid, late and insufficient
By Stephen Brown : The McLeod Group : 15-07-2021. Canada’s recent announcement that it would donate 17.7 million doses of vaccines to the global fight against COVID-19 is to be applauded. But don’t clap too loud. We weren’t ever going to use them anyway. For all of...
How The Pandemic (Nearly) Killed Global Cities
By Kenneth Rapoza : Forbes : 08-06-2021 Who wants to live in a city today? Between protests in the U.S. and London last year, and a pandemic where living in apartment buildings and touching things a hundred people just touched, and riding in their crowded trains,...
Lethal Heat Hits the Planet
By Robert Hunziker : 28-06-2021. The news does not get much worse than a recent scientific report that the planet is trapping twice as much heat as it did only 14 years ago. If this one report does not turn heads and create a sense of panic to get off fossil fuels, as...
The next pandemic: drought is a hidden global crisis, UN says
By Fiona Harvey : The Guardian : 17-06-2021. Countries urged to take urgent action on managing water and land and tackling the climate emergency. Drought is a hidden global crisis that risks becoming “the next pandemic” if countries do not take urgent action on water...
Finance, Growth, and Inequality
By Ross Levine : IMF : 11-06-2020 Finance and growth emerged as a distinct field of economics during the last three decades as economists integrated the fields of finance and economic growth and then explored the ramifications of the functioning of financial systems...
Failing the poorest: An assessment of ODA in 2020
By Nerea Craviotto : 27-05-2021 At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) announced that they would strive to protect Official Development Assistance...
How the Gates Foundation is driving the food system, in the wrong direction
Par Grain : 17 juin 2021 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly US$6 billion over the past 17 years trying to improve agriculture, mainly in Africa. This is a lot of money for an underfunded sector, and, as such, carries great weight. To better...
Call to action : Urgent Call to the United Nations and the International Institutions and Organizations
The Arab Campaign for Education for All and the Arab civil society community demand an urgent international intervention to protect students, teachers, and civilians in Gaza The Arab Campaign for Education for All (ACEA) calls on the international community -...
The UN should stop playing politics with children’s lives
Par Allan Rock : Aljazeera : 05-04-2021 Children around the world suffer the consequences of war – they are routinely killed, maimed, recruited to fight, and otherwise abused. In 2020, the United Nations reported more than 25,000 such grave violations in the previous...