Sun 23 January 2022: One of the goals most of the world has agreed on is education for sustainable development. This means development that considers present concerns without compromising the interests of future generations. Nations develop through education that takes care of the present and the future. As I have argued in a paper on environmental ethics in education, I […]
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Sun 23 January 2022: Hackers obtained access to personal and confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people, some of whom had fled wars, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Unknown intruders breached data about 515,000 people this week, the Geneva-based agency said on Wednesday, “including those separated from their families […]
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Tue 18 January 2022: According to the United Nations, the Covid-19 crisis has continued to wreak havoc on jobs around the world, and it could take years for employment levels to return to pre-pandemic levels. The UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) revised its previous forecast that the global employment market will recover nearly completely from […]
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Mon 17 January 2022: The wealth of the 10 richest men has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, stoking inequality that contributes to the deaths of at least 21,300 people each day, according to a new report released on Monday from Oxfam International. “We enter 2022 with unprecedented concern,” Oxfam’s Inequality Kills report warns, arguing that the current […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their approaching expiry date, a UNICEF official has said. The figure shows the difficulties of vaccinating the global population despite growing supplies of jabs, with COVAX getting closer to […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 8.95 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 43.4 million doses a day. In the U.S., 500 million doses have been given so far. An average 1.26 million doses per day were administered over the last week. More than 8.95 billion doses have […]
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Wed 22 December 2021: Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that wealthy countries did too little to combat the spread of new COVID-19 variants because they failed to vaccinate more vulnerable parts of the world. Brown wrote in a Monday op-ed in The Guardian that the new Omicron coronavirus variant is not Africa’s […]
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Tue 21 December 2021: Social media apps encourage perfectionism and damage human psychology, particularly affecting teenagers, and can even push them to the point of suicide. ”I just hate this blue eyes filter! As if it’s ugly to have brown eyes,” says Berra Demir, a 19-year-old student from Istanbul, as she took an Instagram selfie […]
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Sat 18 December 2021: Discussions at the United Nations on autonomous weapons ended without reaching an agreement to launch negotiations on an international treaty to regulate their use on Friday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) had been pushing for negotiators to begin work on an international treaty that would […]
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Mon 13 December 2021: According to the World Health Organization and the World Bank, more than half a billion people worldwide were pushed into extreme poverty last year as they paid for health costs out of their own pockets during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic disrupted global health services and triggered the […]
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