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Armed conflicts, civil wars, human rights abuses, forced migration, and other disasters cause millions of people across the globe to go missing each year. How do governments find these people? Forensic geneticist, Dr. Mayra Eduardoff,
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The problem of the commons is an old one. As far back as the Middle Ages, societies have been faced with the challenge of how to best manage public goods such as common land, fresh
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Markéta Gregorová, a 28-year-old MEP (Member of the European Parliament) representing the European Pirate Party, became a Pirate in her teens. She says she has always been an activist at heart and remembers listening
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On a bright, breezy autumn day, I make my way past road works and round-abouts to the shining waters of Rotterdam harbor. It is a mere 10-minute walk from the station. I find myself staring
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What are the biggest obstacles to gender equality? Female leaders, entrepreneurs, and activists tackled these and other vital questions at the SDG Action Zone on Gender. Kicking off with the prime minister of the first
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Women have been disproportionately affected by the ravages of the global pandemic. Yet COVID-19 has also served to highlight health, including women’s health to an unprecedented degree. This week at the UN General Assembly, we
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“Racism lives on because we allow it to,” said President of the UN General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, in his opening remarks at yesterday’s high-level meeting which focused on the theme of "Reparations, racial justice, and
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“Violence against women is a pandemic,” says Dr. Denis Mukwege at yesterday’s high level Women in Conflict event, in New York. Led by EU Council President, Charles Michel, the focus was primarily on the plight
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This is the question with which a group of experts from across the continent grappled today at a panel discussion organised by Brookings Global and the UN University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA). Fatima Denton, Director at UNU-INRA