Philippines uses ‘drug war’ tactics to fight COVID-19
The Duterte administration has assigned former military generals to deal with Covid-19 and has sent police Special Forces to contain communities.
More than 300 tech tools could be used to combat human trafficking globally, a...
The study examines how technology is misused to facilitate human trafficking, how more than 300 hundreds of tech tools have approached the problem, and how governments, civil society, and the private sector can strategically use tech to combat trafficking.
Pandemic profits for companies soar by billions as poorest struggle to get by
Thirty-two of the world’s largest companies stand to see their profits jump by $109 billion more in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare an economic model that delivers profits for the wealthiest on the back of the poorest, according to a new Oxfam report released this week.
150 million children plunged into poverty due to COVID-19, say aid agencies
There are not only more children experiencing poverty than before, the poorest children are getting poorer as well. Before the pandemic, the average number of severe deprivations per child was around 0.7. It is now estimated to have increased by 15 percent to around 0.85.
Severe food crisis hits Yemen: children malnourished, on the brink of starvation
War, rising food prices, a health system overwhelmed by COVID-19, and funding challenges are deeply impacting access to food for children all across Yemen, pushing up the number of children who are on the brink of hunger or even starvation, Save the Children has warned.
The Durban climate deal: Winners & Losers
by Tim Gore, Oxfam
In the early hours of a December Sunday morning, governments meeting at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa,...
Bboxx launches bPower20, aims to make solar energy more accessible in Africa
Bboxx, a next-generation utility that manufactures, distributes, and finances decentralized solar powered systems in developing countries, has launched the bPower20 product, to make solar energy more accessible at scale.
South Africa: Virtual technology offers hope to events industry during COVID-19
Inkanyezi Events, a Port Elizabeth-based marketing company has partnered with a local technology start-up in South Africa to create virtual exhibition software, which, according to Inkanyezi CEO, Andrew Binning, is receiving "intense global interest".
Migrants essential to recovery of global development post COVID-19, claims new report
The report, Human Mobility, Shared Opportunities: A Review of the 2009 Human Development Report and the Way Ahead, looks back at the last decade and assesses how future policy responses could facilitate safe, orderly, and regular migration.
Uganda welcomes thousands of DRC refugees amid COVID-19 lockdown
On humanitarian grounds, the President of Uganda directed its Government to temporarily re-open the Zombo border to allow life-saving aid and protection to be provided to the group of refugees.
