Global Warming And The Future Of Food
While there may be uncertainty as to the level of global warming, there is little to none about its reality and its anthropological basis. ...
Reimagining ageing: Older persons as agents of development
Older persons are highly visible across Asia and the Pacific: they work in agricultural fields producing our food supplies, peddle their wares as street...
Inclusive cities critical to post-pandemic recovery
A UN conference on transforming the world's urban areas is underway in Poland this week, which will include a dialogue on urban crisis recovery...
Healthy planet needs ‘ocean action’ from Asian and Pacific countries
As the Second Global Ocean Conference opens today in Lisbon, governments in Asia and the Pacific must seize the opportunity to enhance cooperation and...
70% of 10-Year-Olds now in Learning Poverty, Unable to Read and Understand a Simple Text
As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and...
The Human Price of Tea
There is nothing quite like that first cup of tea (or coffee) in the morning. The aroma swirls about in the nostrils and a...
Overturning of Roe v Wade abortion law a ‘huge blow to women’s human rights’
Friday’s decision by the US Supreme Court which overturns the 50-year-old Roe v Wade judgement guaranteeing access to abortion across the United States, was...
The World Cup and beyond: Thinking strategically about LGBT rights
When Egyptian football legend Mohammed Aboutreika came out swinging against homosexuality in late 2021, he touched a raw nerve across the Muslim world.
The tit-for-tat...
Life-Creating Mind Against Destructive Mindlessness
By becoming a totalitarian destructive order, capitalism called into question the modern way of thinking based on existential apriorism and the corresponding idea of...
Constructivist Methods in Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)
Constructivism is an important approach in education, particularly in foreign-language education where the classroom goals are focused on integrating all the components of communicative...