Friday, August 18, 2023
Two women who received World Food Programme school-feeding support as children on their passion for serving WFP as humanitarian workers today. Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999. She...
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Africa, South Sudan, Uganda
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
In 2020, South Sudan witnessed the first locust invasion in over 70 years. The locusts destroyed crops and grazing land in many parts of the country, significantly affecting the incomes and food security of thousands of people, the majority of whom...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
The Polish government has unveiled plans for a new child benefit scheme. It hopes that the policy will provide an “incentive to have more children”, who will “create the future of our nation”. Under the “Family Welfare Capital” scheme approved by the...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
About one in three or 33.4 per cent of working Cypriots received support from special schemes to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the second highest rate in the EU 27 and nearly double the EU 27 average of 1.5 per cent, Labour Minister Zeta...
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Asia, Cyprus, Europe, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Wales has become the latest country to explore the idea of a universal basic income, which gives every adult a fixed amount of money, regardless of their employment status. Announcing plans for a pilot scheme was a bold move by the first...
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Africa, Kenya, America, Canada, United States, Asia, South Korea, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, we have seen some remarkable developments in the fight for the labor rights of essential workers. This is in no small part related to the fact that many of us have finally understood and recognized...
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Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, America, Chile, United States, Asia, Thailand, Europe, Poland
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Friday, April 30, 2021
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Nine months after European leaders agreed the European Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of €672.5...
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Europe, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Everyone participates in the social contract every day, and we rarely stop to think about it. Yet social...
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Africa, South Sudan, America, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, United States, Asia, China, India, Europe, Denmark, United Kingdom
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The dramatic increase in working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the poor working conditions experienced by many homeworkers who, prior to the crisis, numbered an estimated 260 million people worldwide.
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Africa, Egypt, Ghana, South Sudan, America, Argentina, Mexico, United States, Uruguay, Asia, India, Europe, France, United Kingdom
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
While globalisation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have benefited the world greatly, it has a number of far-reaching consequences that include exacerbating inequalities across societies, with inequality rising even in some countries where economic...
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Armenia, Georgia, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Asia, Europe
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