International human rights law, and frequently domestic law, obliges countries to ensure health equity. This implies the creation and maintenance of accessible infrastructure including transportation systems and associated services.
Carbon pricing is a policy approach aimed at reducing GHG. Simply put, it accounts for the price of all carbon-emitting activities and targets GHG reduction.
While some countries are yet to start with clean energy, others have gone far along the way. Iceland's renewable energy transformation has turned the country into a land of plenty that others look up to.
Since the origination of Bitcoin, dozens of other cryptocurrencies have appeared on the market. Crypto has become a widespread means of payment, investment, and fund transfer with their overall value hitting the cap of $3 Trillion in 2021.
The innovative technology has been attracting nearly 1,000,000 new users per week lately. Given its truly multimodal capabilities, the chatbot has taken the tech market by storm. It was having an estimated number of 100 million users by January 2023, making it the fastest growing platform ever.
Both Turkey & Syria have been massively affected triggering an acute humanitarian crisis. However, the situation in Syria has been further complicated by the country’s specific circumstances. Failing as a state under global economic sanctions and burdened by war and the refugee crisis, serving the populations in need has become a real challenge for the country.
Ukraine-Russia Conflict - a protracted conflict between the two breadbaskets of the World - does not go easy on global markets or overall economic growth. Besides the two countries providing 30% of the World’s wheat and barley, the Russian Federation has long been a top natural gas supplier.
According to the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook 2023, global employment is expected to expand by only 1% in 2023 with no major improvement awaited in 2024. This means that the gaps created by the infamous pandemic are not set to close within the coming two years. The situation is expected to vary across regions with Europe and Central Asia being hit the hardest due to Ukraine Conflict.
According to the WHO for the year 2019 reported tuberculosis cases reached 10 million with 1.4 million losing their lives to the infection. Unsurprisingly, the burden of tuberculosis is not evenly distributed among countries with developing states being affected the most largely owing to limited health expertise and lack of medical equipment.
Emergency logistics has been defined as the support function that ensures the timely delivery of emergency resources and rescue services into the regions affected by disasters. It is considered the key to efficient and effective alleviation of disaster impact in its immediate aftermath. Thereby, relief supply chains are expected to be the most agile and adaptive.
Potentially traumatizing experiences do not affect everyone equally. Men, women, girls, and boys of different ages may have different ways of experiencing and expressing distress.
There are approximately 258 million migrants worldwide. Considering the rising number and intensity of conflicts globally, this number is only expected to grow. Evidence suggests that there are strong connections between migration and criminal forms of exploitation and primarily modern-day slavery. There are many drivers to such a situation, but certain patterns exist.
