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In 2018, Africa accounted for 70% of the world’s people displaced by armed conflict and human rights abuses.
Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
The lack of a clear formula to distinguish between donors’ adaptation and mitigation funds is hurting Africa’s climate response.
The human population has doubled in 48 years, and worsening climate change has left the world facing serious health risks, from infectious diseases to hunger and heat stress.
Employing children as waste pickers lowers costs but exposes them to hazards.
Marginalised or minority groups seem to suffer the most from heat-related deaths and disease.
Lockdown measures may stop the spread of the virus. But they can also lead to a larger and more protracted public health crisis in the form of deprivation and hunger.
The new coalition government must act quickly to address the kingdom’s massive socio-economic problems, and restore faith in democracy.
That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.
Punishing attendance problems fails to address the issues facing students, from family responsibilities to barriers related to racism or inadequate support for disabilities.
When people’s homes became cold, their risk of severe mental distress significantly increased.
Many small island nations are struggling to protect their land from rising seas while also facing paralyzing debt.
‘Unlegislating’ poverty demands a new course of action from governments that focuses on the expertise of people living with poverty who understand acutely how public policies fail.
Poorer Australians have shorter life expectancies and are more likely to live with long-term health conditions than their wealthier peers.
Regulating the sex work industry is the only way to protect sex workers from abuse and violence.
Affordability is a question of political and policy priorities. If we want a fair and adequate social security system, we cannot continue cutting the resources of those who already have the least.
Unable to change the country’s vulnerability to shifts in the global and regional economy, the new prime minister Matekane has few economic levers to pull.
The conflation of sex work and human trafficking fuels support for the continued criminalisation of sex work.
South Africa’s land reform programme is designed for a socio-economic context that doesn’t exist.
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