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Gang Wars Cripple Haiti

A year after Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise was assassinated by armed gangsters, armed gangs are back on the streets and control most of the...

OWSA Contributor - 17 July 2022

COVID-19

Microparticles could be used to deliver “self-boosting” vaccines

MIT researchers have developed microparticles that can be tuned to deliver their payload at different time points, which could be used to create “self-boosting”...

OWSA Contributor - 16 July 2022

Children

WHO, UNICEF Say Largest Fall in Vaccinations in Three Decades Accelerated by Pandemic

It was hoped that 2021 would be a year of recovery during which strained immunization programmes would rebuild and the cohort of children missed...

OWSA Staff - 15 July 2022

COVID-19

ILO-WHO Global Study on Gender Pay Gap in Health and Care Sector Silent on India

Lower wages and discrimination come out as important features of the challenges women employed in the health and care face, according to an ILO...

OWSA Contributor - 15 July 2022

Animals and wildlife

Narrow Valuation of Nature is Widening Biodiversity Loss

The Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature brought out by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services argues...

Inter Press Service - 13 July 2022

Child Rights

Governments Recommended Unsafe EdTech Products During Pandemic

Online learning or EdTech products endorsed by many governments across the world enabled surveillance of children. The products monitored or had the capacity to...

OWSA Staff - 13 July 2022

Policy analysis

What Future for a World of 8 Billion?

In countries where deaths outnumber births, the population is increasing very little, if at all. In some cases, it has already started to decline...

Inter Press Service - 12 July 2022

Disaster risk reduction

UN Predicts 68 Percent of World’s Population will be Living in Urban Areas by 2050

Securing stronger and more resilient cities, able to withstand the more frequent shocks and hazards, will require a new social compact, a re-distribution of...

Inter Press Service - 11 July 2022

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