Manitoba’s Camp Morningstar Continues Its Fight Against Silica Sand Mining on Sacred Indigenous Lands Country Canada agnes Thu, 03/21/2024 – 11:02 Issues Human Rights Lands, Resources, and Environments Program 5 Main Image By MJ McCarron Even though Camp Morningstar’s final appeal was denied, allowing Canadian Premium Sand to continue destroying […]
Read MoreCredit: UNDP By Ayodele OdusolaHARARE, Zimbabwe, Mar 21 2024 (IPS) This year’s UNDP Global Human Development Report (HDR) marks a dramatic shift away from the cautious optimism espoused in the HDR just four years ago: despite reaching a new high, the Global Human Development Index now evolves meaningfully below the […]
Read MoreCountry: Mongolia Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies The toll of lost livestock exceeds 4.7 million, with a worsening situation expected. More than 7,000 families lack adequate food, and heavy snowfall has buried more than 1,000 herder shelters.
Read MoreIn January, the Department of Defense (DoD) released its inaugural National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS), which seeks to “catalyze generational change” to the existing defense industrial ecosystem. This “first-of-its-kind” strategy outlines the department’s three-to-five-year roadmap for modernizing its defense and deterrence capabilities by investing in technological innovation, strengthening supply chains, […]
Read MoreOn International Women’s Day on Mar. 8, thousands of Chilean women of all ages took to Santiago’s central Alameda avenue to demonstrate peacefully for several hours and turn the Chilean capital into a stage for protest and demands for their rights. Some of them were women caregivers accompanied by dependent […]
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence and Indigenous Peoples’ Realities agnes Tue, 03/19/2024 – 18:41 CSQ Issue 48-1 Indigenizing Emerging Technologies March 2024 Read on Issuu Buy a copy Subscribe By Nina Sangma (GARO) Where are we, the world’s Indigenous Peoples, going to be in the age of Artificial Intelligence? What will be our […]
Read MoreCountry: Mozambique Source: World Food Programme While Filipo didn’t make the grade as a cyclone, it’s cast a spotlight on the huge problems WFP faces in Mozambique, especially in the north, where thousands of people have been displaced since 2017.
Read MoreAlmost one year ago, Washington State passed the “My Health, My Data” Act (the Act), which aims to protect Washington consumer health data, particularly data related to reproductive healthcare. The Act is the first law in the country aimed at protecting the vast amount of health data that falls outside […]
Read MoreOrange County/Palo Alto – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Mattias Luukkonen and Michael Gorback as partners in its Corporate practice. Luukkonen joins the firm’s Orange County office from Reed Smith LLP and Gorback arrives to the firm’s Palo Alto office from Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco. Rick […]
Read MoreCredit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images By Inés M. PousadelaMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 19 2024 (IPS) This year more than half the world’s population has the chance to go to the polls. That might make it look like the most democratic year ever, but the reality is more troubling. Too many […]
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