Somalia launches campaign to vaccinate one million people against cholera

26 Januari 2023 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

Country: Somalia Source: World Health Organization About 6.4 million people face water shortages and poor sanitation and 1.8 million children are likely to suffer acute malnutrition – a combination of which boosts the likelihood of cholera infections.

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Litigation Minute: New Year’s (Dispute) Resolutions

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS As we enter into 2023, our team is focused on our own list of resolutions. Like traditional goals for the new year, our priorities revolve around well-being, productivity, and personal growth: the well-being of our clients, productivity of our practice […]

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Desalination could give the Middle East water without damaging marine life

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Photo: Pixabay/rjames1045 More than 2 billion people live in “water stressed” countries. These are territories where more than 25% of the available freshwater resources are withdrawn for human use each year. Desalination – the process of removing salt from seawater – is increasingly being used to tackle water scarcity worldwide. Roughly 16,000 desalination plants now produce […]

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Solar Energy Useless Without Good Batteries in Brazil’s Amazon Jungle

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Solar panels with a capacity to generate 30 kilowatts no longer work in the Darora Community of the Macuxi people, an indigenous group from Roraima, a state in the far north of Brazil. The batteries only worked for a month before they were damaged because they could not withstand the […]

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To provide food security, South Asian nations must engage in liberal trade (The Wire) 

25 Januari 2023 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

The South Asia region has about a quarter of the world’s population and is projected to grow to about 40 percent by 2050. It bears a high burden of poverty and undernutrition, writes the Wire in a report about trade, nutrition, and food security. About 42 percent of the world’s […]

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Red Cross scales up response to Malawi’s worst cholera outbreak in two decades

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Country: Malawi Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Since the first recorded case in February 2022, all 29 districts of Malawi are now affected. Cholera is putting more than 10 million people at risk, including more than five million children.

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As the pace of urbanization quickens in Asia-Pacific, so too does the threat of urban food insecurity – UN agencies report

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Asia’s cities are growing at such a fast pace that nearly 55 percent of the region’s enormous population is expected to reside in urban areas by 2030, and that will have equally enormous consequences for urban food security and nutrition, according to the main findings of a new report […]

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World: Fewer victims of trafficking in persons are being identified UNODC report finds

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Country: World Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime The number of victims detected globally fell by 11 per cent in 2020 from the previous year as the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises continue to increase vulnerabilities to exploitation.

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Get ready to be schooled! (…about IFPRI’s research on education)

24 Januari 2023 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

Building incentives to foster more effective teaching and learning.

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On International Day of Education, We Must Prioritize Girls in Humanitarian Crisis

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Credit: UNICEF/2022/Adebayo By Yasmine Sherif and Stephen OmolloNEW YORK, Jan 24 2023 (IPS) “Is it a sin to be a girl? We don’t want to be at home and illiterate. We want to go to school, study and be intelligent.” In just a few words, this plea for education from […]

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