Significant growth in aquaculture has driven global fisheries and aquaculture production to a record high as aquatic foods make an increasingly critical contribution to food security and nutrition in the 21st century, according to a report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released today.   The 2022 […]

Analysis-Food export bans, from India to Argentina, risk fueling inflation (Thomson Reuters – KFGO)  Jun 29, 2022 Jun 26, 2022 pfowlkes Wed, 06/29/2022 – 15:18 Analysis-Food export bans, from India to Argentina, risk fueling inflation (Thomson Reuters – KFGO)  Analysis-Food export bans, from India to Argentina, risk fueling inflation (Thomson […]

Countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria Source: Save the Children A surge in attacks by armed groups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Nigeria in the past six months has forced nearly 36,000 people into the driest parts of Niger, exacerbating a severe hunger crisis, said Save the Children.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa said Tuesday the Philippine government has ordered her news organization Rappler to shut down.

Rapid acceleration of digitalization in rural communities in Asia and the Pacific is critical for regaining momentum towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), government policy makers agreed at the conclusion of a one-day event on the subject, convened today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). More […]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS One of the earliest modern environmental, social, and governance (ESG) cases decided by the Supreme Court, Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), turned on Article III standing.1 There, the Supreme Court held that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and other government entities had standing […]

Singapore – Lawyers from K&L Gates Straits Law LLC, the Singapore office of global law firm K&L Gates, with support from the firm’s London office, have assisted Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) with conducting a comparative review of the legal policy framework of pre-trial detention across the 54 Commonwealth Member […]