Inclusive opportunities to break barriers to ensure gender equality, improve access to water resources, and promote financial inclusion for rural women are vital to achieve the 2030 Agenda, a webinar hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, aligning […]

To date, crypto companies have been able to operate in California without a license, but that will change effective July 2025 under the state’s newly-enacted “Digital Financial Assets Law” (the Law), signed by Governor Newsom on 13 October. The Law is California’s first comprehensive framework to regulate the digital asset […]

Photo: Pixabay/qimono The seas have been awash with plastic waste, which can take decades, centuries and even millennia to degrade. This poses great risks to the health of marine ecosystems, but tiny bacteria can come to the rescue, at least to some extent. A strain of bacteria found in sea […]

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Countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Out of the 1 million people urgently requiring tarpaulin shelters in the eastern provinces, only 115,000 have received them since June. Disease outbreaks continue to ravage IDP sites in North Kivu.

Meet Our 2023 Indigenous Community Media Fund Grant Partners Country Global agnes Tue, 10/17/2023 – 11:07 Issues Human Rights Languages and Cultures Lands, Resources, and Environments Program 5 Main Image Indigenous community media is essential for Indigenous Peoples’ reclamation and resistance movements worldwide. They contribute to securing respect for individual […]

Competing demands for access to freshwater in the Asia-Pacific region are intensifying, and this could have dire consequences for the region’s massive agriculture sector and, ultimately, could interrupt regular and affordable access to food for millions of people in the region, water resource management experts have warned. The note of […]

On 4 October 2023, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco announced a new US Department of Justice (DOJ) Safe Harbor Policy for voluntary self-disclosure made in connection with mergers and acquisitions (M&A).1 Under the new policy, companies that timely and voluntarily self-disclose criminal misconduct uncovered during their pre-acquisition due diligence or […]

Country: Haiti Source: UN Children’s Fund In a daring rescue mission, 60 students and instructors from La Saline Salesian School were evacuated from their school, where they had been trapped for three days amidst clashes between armed groups.