Source: UN News Service Country: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, United States of America, World La medida restringe excesivamente el derecho a solicitar asilo y pondrá en riesgo a las personas vulnerables que necesitan protección internacional y que huyen de sus países por la violencia o la persecución. La medida […]

Event Post July 16, 2019 Forman Lecture: Harold Alderman on the pathways between childhood nutrition and economic growth Katarlah Taylor Why a development focus on early childhood nutrition is key—but should look beyond narrow goals such as eliminating stunting.

Online video viewing was responsible for carbon emissions equal to those of Spain last year, and it’s time to take seriously the impacts and become “digitally sober,” according to researchers at a Paris-based think tank on climate change. The new takeaways from The Shift Project follow on the findings of […]

Source: World Health Organization, UN Children’s Fund Country: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine, World, Yemen More than one in 10 children – almost 20 million worldwide – failed to receive […]

Source: UN Children’s Fund, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Country: Somalia Only 16 per cent of IDP children and 26 per cent in rural communities are enrolled in primary schools. Drought, food insecurity, and poverty also hinder efforts to get more Somaliland children in schools. Education Cannot Wait allocates $6.7 million […]