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Agri-business

Paying More for Less Food

FAO report flags risks to food security from high food and agricultural input prices. It says that real prices for farmers are low and...

OWSA Contributor - 14 June 2022

Features

Palestine, Syria, Ukraine: The Life of Marsel, a Child of Wars

One day, Marsel would like to design schools for refugees, schools where children can learn, play, grow, and blossom like other children. This way, he says, he...

OWSA Contributor - 13 June 2022

Human rights

US President Biden Refuses to Mention Worsening Dangers of Nuclear War While Media and Congress Enable His Silence

A leader interested in informing the American people rather than infantilizing them would have something to say about the need to prevent nuclear war...

Inter Press Service - 13 June 2022

Health Policy

Improve Antibiotics Access to Beat ‘Silent Pandemic’

The WHO says after decades of careless exposure to antibiotics, superbugs are now widespread and represent a “global crisis that threatens a century of...

SciDevNet - 10 June 2022

Accountability

Living in Harmony with Nature

Indigenous communities have historically been at the margins of formal global negotiations on climate change. They were finally given a voice alongside governments in...

OWSA Contributor - 10 June 2022

Accountability

Youth Must Be Equal Partners in Digital Decision Making – ITU Youth Summit

The summit sessions also explored critical policy matters related to internet connectivity and technologies, such as cyber-safety, the future of work, and entrepreneurship. The...

Inter Press Service - 10 June 2022

COVID-19

Monkeypox Risk Is ‘Real’, Says WHO. Reiterates COVID-19 Pandemic ‘Not Over’

Over 1,000 cases of monkeypox infections have been reported from 29 countries so far, even as COVID-19 claimed over 7,000 lives last week, the...

OWSA Staff - 9 June 2022

Gender

War & Peace 2.0: Ukraine Showing the World How to Fight Back

Allegations of sexual violence by Russian troops in Ukraine are mounting. A national hotline on domestic violence, human trafficking and gender-based discrimination has been...

Inter Press Service - 9 June 2022

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