The global public health pandemic of lethal COVID-19 became a major challenge in the global landscape since the beginning of 2020. Its concomitant apprehension of the fatality of the disease created a sense of anxiety, fear, paranoia, and human...
UNDP invites you to the first Future of Development public conversation between Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, and Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator.
Amartya Sen introduced the concept of development of freedom. He was also, along...
In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its most important guidebook on international affairs. Japan’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, wrote the foreword, which begins: “The world is now at a turning point in...
An interview with Fatma Alloo (Interview by Heba M. Khalil)
Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women's Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.
Fatma Alloo’s activism grew in the decades following...
The Group of 77 (G77), consisting of 134 developing countries, concluded a two-day summit in Havana, Cuba, with a call for a new global order. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who chairs the organization, emphasized that it's time for the...
On 9 October 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations’ World Food Programme. In the citation for the award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee pointed to the ‘link between hunger and armed conflict’, noting that ‘war...
By Dr S Faizi
Dr S Faizi argues that the community of nations should criminalise ecocide and create a mechanism to prosecute the culprits. This should be done by establishing an Environmental Security Council as a democratic, independent multilateral body,...
Amnesty International is calling on G20 leaders meeting this week to take unprecedented steps towards tackling the global inequalities which are fueling the COVID-19 and climate crises – two of the greatest threats to human rights of our time....
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved three new FAO-designed projects in Argentina, Guatemala and Sudan for a total amount of $158.6 million aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening resilience to climate change, and combating deforestation.
FAO...
Bhakti Shringarpure
What counts as “authentic” decolonization as the term takes over our social media and influencer bubbles? And how we can sharpen our activism.
Decolonization has taken over our social media timelines with a vengeance. With hundreds of thousands of...
