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4 May May 2016 1650 04 May 2016 Millennials at work: less bureaucracy wanted
Millennials are facing a tough time with regards to employment. In most regions - despite being more educated, richer, and better fed than the baby-boomer generation - they are twice as likely to be unemployed than their elders. According to the founder of the global youth think tank ThinkYoung, Andrea Gerosa, we need less bureaucracy and more highly skilled workers.
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4 May May 2016 0950 04 May 2016 Most poor renting families struggle to obtain and maintain housing
While the Canadian city of Medicine Hat has recently become the first city to end homelessness, many people are increasingly being made homeless because they cannot afford their rent, or their landlord kicks them out at the end of a tenancy agreement.
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2 May May 2016 1223 02 May 2016 Leaked papers affirm TTIP deal would put corporate interests before health and environment
The 248 pages of the leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiating texts obtained by Greenpeace Netherlands, unveil U.S. attempts to undermine EU environment and health protection laws.
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27 April Apr 2016 1151 27 April 2016 More women signing the cheques
Nannying? Cleaning? Not so much anymore. Those sitting behind the board room desks signing the cheques are increasingly women.
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26 April Apr 2016 1758 26 April 2016 Hope for the children of Chernobyl
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion: the disaster that remains the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and continues to affect thousands of people across Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. With generations of children affected by the radiation, Chernobyl is an everyday reality, and not just an anniversary the world remembers once a year. The Nadeshda rehabilitation centre in Belarus was founded to give hope to children living in towns and villages contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster.
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25 April Apr 2016 1743 25 April 2016 The feminisation of poverty
With the recent Panama Papers disclosure, inequality in world wealth is gaining greater media attention. Alongside this, feminism is living its fourth wave, and Hillary and Bernie - one representing a chance for women, the other inequality - are up against each other in America. But what is often ignored is that tackling issues relating to gender and poverty can be done intersectionally.
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21 April Apr 2016 0935 21 April 2016 Fighting poverty is big business
With the West spending more than a trillion dollars in the past decade on programs to promote development, the business of doing good has never been better.
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20 April Apr 2016 1213 20 April 2016 The leadership puzzle for the nonprofits: No training no managers
There are talents but there is not training. The new challenge of the philanthropy world:the lack of teaching for tomorrow’s charity leaders.
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19 April Apr 2016 1623 19 April 2016 10 years of human rights for persons with disabilities
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Celebrations are being held by the UN in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, to praise the Convention that saw the change from viewing persons with disabilities as objects of charity and social protection, towards seeing them as full and equal members of society.
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19 April Apr 2016 1545 19 April 2016 Human rights? Any of our business
The Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed in April 2013, killing more than 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh. The tragedy brought attention and pressure to the longstanding debate about the responsibility of companies in protecting human rights and led people to demand more corporate disclosure.
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19 April Apr 2016 1444 19 April 2016 Ladies, united we lobby
Strengthening women’s movements and creating alliances with other organizations. But also understanding the power within ourselves. The European Women‘s Lobby and its members set their mission straight, and the roadmap to achieving it.
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15 April Apr 2016 1627 15 April 2016 This new tool helps businesses protect children's rights
Businesses can do more to protect children's rights. With the Children's Rights and Business Atlas, this has become easier. The new interactive tool developed by UNICEF and the Global Child Forum provides analysis and data across 198 countries and 10 industries that will help companies to realise their significant potential to respect and support children’s rights throughout their business operations and investments.
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15 April Apr 2016 1129 15 April 2016 The open source campaign that aims to build a more youth inclusive politics
Amongst young people in the EU, there is a growing belief that the formal structures presented as the only way to ‘do’ politics simply aren’t working. When parties trade power and voting doesn’t seem to change anything, for today's youth casting a ballot feels ineffective and disempowering. They feel that democracy has been reduced to a darkened, solitary polling booth once every five years, and that there is a lack of real opportunities to effect change. As a result, young people are opting out.
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15 April Apr 2016 1119 15 April 2016 Islamic finance: the future of banking?
Since 2008 Islamic banking has been growing at an estimated annual rate of 10-15% in no Muslim countries, such as the USA, Britain and France, amongst others, as an ethical and sustainable alternative to the conventional, profit-driven banking system.
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14 April Apr 2016 1640 14 April 2016 Women work more and earn less
The fight for women’s rights is far from over. This week was Equal Pay Day in the US, but the problem of pay inequality persists globally. The annual pay for women only now equals the amount men were earning ten years age, and the gender pay gap continues to be a global reality for women everywhere.
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14 April Apr 2016 1116 14 April 2016 Growing inequality for children in world's richest countries
UNICEF have released new figures that show growing inequality among children in high income countries. Israel was the lowest ranking of the 41 countries, and Denmark the highest. “As our understanding of the long term impact of inequality grows, it becomes increasingly clear that governments must place priority on enhancing the well-being of all children today, and give them the opportunity to achieve their potential,” says Dr. Sarah Cook, Director of the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti.
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13 April Apr 2016 1508 13 April 2016 #MentalHealthNow: depression and anxiety are on the rise
When you’re sitting down at the dinner table tonight, look around. One in four of you will be affected by mental illness at some point in your life. Not only that, but the latest WHO statistics show that common mental disorders are increasing worldwide. Between 1990 and 2013, the number of people suffering from depression and/or anxiety increased by nearly 50%, from 416 million to 615 million.
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13 April Apr 2016 1018 13 April 2016 How gambling contributes to inequality
Numerous studies tell us that the largest numbers of gamblers come from the poorest segments of the population, who see it as a way of getting out of poverty. This fact contributes to increasing inequalities.
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12 April Apr 2016 1509 12 April 2016 #endSH: Stop telling women to smile
This week is International Anti-Street Harassment week. Trending on Twitter with #endSH, people across the globe are speaking out against the endemic problem of street harassment.