“This is a society where people rarely trust the government. But when religious leaders began to lend their voices, there was a huge turnaround for the country. Getting the right message out early saved [...]Read the full article
The governments of Europe are trying to maintain employment even if it means that the states themselves assume payment of a portion of salaries. Will they be able to save millions of families from ruin? What formula is being developed by the EU [...]Read the full article
Japan is celebrating 20 years of a social care system that provides cover in the final stages of life. In health crises like the current one, this policy can make fundamental differences in the quality of life and life expectancy of the [...]Read the full article
“There are tools for government and employers to address this increase in violence. We know that there is a strong connection between violence at home and violence at work, and we absolutely need to address this in terms of human [...]Read the full article
In 2016, Malta introduced a policy that required all companies with more than 20 employees to ensure that 2 per cent of their staff are people with disabilities. Failure to do so obliges companies to pay a financial contribution of €2,400 for every [...]Read the full article
The coronavirus pandemic, and our concerns about contact with people and things, has reopened the debate about single-use plastic. Even the most well-meaning consumers have gone back to it, following the reinvigorated campaign led by the [...]Read the full article
As the world retreats and nations implement drastic social distancing measures in response to the coronavirus, aid workers are facing, with very little means, an additional danger which threatens to strike already highly vulnerable [...]Read the full article
The inmates of prisons across the Americas are fearful. They are terrified of the coronavirus and see just how slow the authorities are to make decisions that could protect them from the disease.Read the full article
Living in conditions that are often more precarious than the rest of the population and with much higher health risk factors, Indigenous peoples around the world know that their very survival is on the line if the coronavirus reaches their [...]Read the full article
In 2019, 35 countries cut off access to the internet, 40 per cent more than in 2018. This figure is all the more alarming as internet shutdowns are becoming increasingly specific, targeted, complex, and above all, [...]Read the full article
Lebanon, in the throes of a banking, monetary and financial crisis, is looking for a ray of light at the bottom of the sea. In February, it began exploring potential oil and gas deposits beneath the seafloor. But given the complex web of [...]Read the full article
More than 30,000 Cuban doctors, including the ‘white coats’ fighting coronavirus, are working overseas, in 67 countries. Most of them, around 20,000, are in Venezuela. Is this covert diplomacy? A money-making scheme? Or an example of the cooperation needed in [...]Read the full article
