Thursday, December 12, 2019
OPINION: In October, the IMF published its first working paper dedicated to unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). Globally, women perform 76.2 per cent of the total hours of unpaid care work. While recognition of UCDW by the IMF is welcome and...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The Government of Finland has renewed its commitment to support children’s rights in Syria through a generous contribution of €3 million to strengthen access and quality of learning for children across the country. The new grant will contribute to the...
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Asia, Syria, Europe, Finland
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019
BLOG: Despite their effectiveness at preventing homelessness and increasing housing stability, voucher programs are falling short of their promise. Though originally conceived as a way to help low-income households (disproportionaly comprised of people...
Monday, December 2, 2019
The Assistant Foreign Minister, Abdullah bin Faisal bin Jabur Al Doseri, expressed Bahrain's keenness to respect ans promote the rights of disabled persons, based on the Kingdom's historical and civilizational heritage that is enriched with its...
Friday, November 29, 2019
BLOG: The promise of new technology to meet the needs of people in humanitarian crises has been in the news recently, but not always for the right reasons. Humanitarian organisations have long sought to apply the latest technologies to better...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
OPINION: Imagine finding yourself unable to prove who you are, your age, where you are from—or, indeed, that you exist at all. This is the mind-bending reality faced by over 1bn people worldwide who lack a legal identity. More than half of them are...
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Global, Asia, Bangladesh, Pakistan
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Friday, November 15, 2019
UNICEF is in Madagascar, working to put an end to child labor and exploitation. Help UNICEF give Malagasy children the childhood they deserve. In Madagascar's southern region, many children spend their days at the mica mines — hanging around or...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
BLOG: World leaders have a disappointing record when it comes to crises that take decades to unfold. Much greater investment in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s could have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars 20 years later, for...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
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Saturday, November 9, 2019
A damning new report from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, raises alarm about the rise of the digital welfare state, which uses data and technologies to automate, predict, identify,...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
BLOG: The Copenhagen Consensus a US-based think tank that researches and publishes the best ways for governments and philanthropists to spend their money says that every dollar spent on nutrition in the first thousand days could benefit an average of US$...
