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UN urges Comprehensive Approach to Sexuality Education
Close to 10 years after its first edition, a fully updated International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education published today by UNESCO advocates quality comprehensive...
Road Deaths and Injuries Hold Back Economic Growth in Developing Countries
A new World Bank study, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, finds that reducing road traffic deaths and injuries could result in substantial long-term income gains...
Violence against Healthcare: Social and Humanitarian Implications
Historically, medical treatment during conflict has not been taken for granted as it is nowadays. For instance, in the 16th century, soldiers were not...
Humans’ intimacy with technology: Are we all becoming cyborgs?
Do you think you could live without your mobile phone? What about the navigation and backup camera in your car? Could you drive as...
Faces of change: Fighting for a mercury-free future
Charito Elcano turned 60 this year, a milestone in a life fraught with ups and downs, challenges and opportunities and – in her case...
Beating the big smoke
Londoners are used to inhaling poison. In Victorian Britain, the sickly brown smog that blanketed the capital was known as a “pea-souper”, so thick...
Republicans Should Use Tax Reform to Pursue the Real Deficit Driver: Entitlements
In the weeks preceding the holiday recess, GOP congressional leaders passed two sweeping tax reform bills, hoping to produce a final version for President...
The Real Reason Why the Supreme Court Had To Ban Petcoke
The Supreme Court of India recently imposed a ban on the use of petcoke and furnace oil in the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh...
Abortion: Deal With It Ethically, Not Politically
President Trump’s executive office, on October 2, backed the US House of Representatives ban on 20-week abortions, labeled the H.R. 36: Pain-Capable Unborn Child...
Climate Change and China’s Mission
Authors: Shrey Das & Wang Li The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was passed in Rio de Janeiro with a vision...