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Indigenous leaders lament disconnect between SDG indicators and reality at UN
An annual review of the Sustainable Development Goals is underway at the United Nation’s high-level political forum in New York — but indigenous leaders attending the summit stressed the need to look ...
Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt
By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of up to US$535 trillion.
Calls for tighter legislation on Australian businesses in wake of Solomon Islands mining controversy
As aid-for-trade continues to play a key role for donor countries to grow developing economies and create future markets, governance is crucial. The need for better regulation on businesses operating ...
Are innovation labs delivering on their promise?
Next month, a first-of-its-kind event will take place in Denmark, and it will draw on traditions and ways of living in one of the happiest countries in the world to unlock new perspectives on achievin...
Diplomats to Tillerson: don't eliminate state department's refugee office
National security officials are arguing the elimination the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration would have ‘profound and negative implications’
EU countries seek to cut aid budget for 2018
European Union countries have proposed cutting the bloc's development aid funds by 6.5 percent as an amendment to the 2018 budget, in a move that was swiftly condemned by a coalition of NGOs.
End of Ebola sparks crisis for Sierra Leone’s teen mums
Just over a year since the country was declared free of Ebola, the government has pledged to prioritise fixing the dire state of maternal and sexual health services. One of its aims is to increase the...
Trump's Unethical Aid Cuts
Peter Singer, for Project Syndicate, finds no compelling justification for reducing US funding for global health programs.
Promoting Sustainable Population Growth, Key to Raising Human Rights Standards
The world population has witnessed a remarkable growth during the recent decades. In 1965, it stood at 3.3 billion people. In 2017 –52 years later– the global population reached a staggering 7.5 billi...
Fiji govt looks to inject youth into sugar industry
The Fiji Government wants to see young farmers coming into the sugar industry.
