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A campaign to change the name of a road in London’s ‘Little India’‘ has succeeded. While some members of the local Sikh population welcome it, others aren’t so happy.
Las olas de calor extremo no se vigilan sistemáticamente en la mayoría de los países del África subsahariana. Esto provoca muertes innecesarias y prematuras que a menudo ni siquiera se registran.
Extreme heatwaves aren’t systematically monitored in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This leads to unnecessary and premature deaths which are often unrecorded.
Un estudio internacional auspiciado por la UNESCO acaba de revelar que tres de cada cuatro mujeres periodistas han sufrido acoso en el entorno digital por su trabajo y en un 20% de casos ese hostigamiento se ha traducido en violencia física.
Twenty years after the first China-Africa forum, the perceptions of ordinary African citizens still need to be better considered in government-to-government interactions.
There’s no guarantee future COVID-19 vaccines will work in the elderly. So we can consider vaccinating the young first to protect them. Here’s what we need to work out first.
Global Head of Wildlife Research, World Animal Protection, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford