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The Queen, Prince Charles, and the Cambridges appear on TV before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview.

A modern lumberjack in the Menominee Forest, an internationally recognized model of sustainable development. Tribal colleges have, for over 25 years, served tribal communities and American Indian people with a fervor and competency that have made these Indian-controlled institutions models for non-Indian institutions working with Indian students.  Part of the secret of tribal colleges is that these institutions arise out of their communities, serving them by operating libraries, head start pro...

Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty Images Monday 8 March 2021 is Commonwealth Day, an annual marker that celebrates the union of Commonwealth nations across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Americas, the Pacific and Europe. Commemorations will primarily take place virtually rather than in person this year, without the usual Westminster Abbey service – which was memorably the last group outing for the royals before the pandemic, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s last public appearance with the res...

+ Dr Mahama Ouedraogo (left) interacting with Mr Kingsley Ahenkora-Duodu (right) and Mr Joshua Kalognia (middle), member of the AFSGW. A Technical Economic Advisor to the Vice President, Dr Samuel Frimpong, has stated that the government will deliberately accelerate efforts at making science and technology a major tool in development going into the next four years. He said there was a direct relationship among science, technology and development and the current government would not deviate fro...

Google has already made a $100 million grant and 50,000 pro bono hour commitment to support Covid-19 relief.

Data shows that Covid-19 affects people of colour at much higher rates and Google has doubled down on its efforts to address the compounding racial and social inequities of this pandemic.According to Jacquelline Fuller, President, google.org, ...

Uniting climate and biodiversity agendas through circularity Photo by Sanket Shah/ Unsplash / 15 Feb 2021 Speech prepared for delivery at the World Sustainable Development Summit 2021 on Redefining our Common Future: Safe and Secure Environment for All’. Thank you to the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) for the invitation to speak at the 20th edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS), which takes place under the shadow of the tragedy in Uttarakhand. My thoughts are with...

In this livestream, NCR's Olga Segura hosts a conversation with Dwayne David Paul of the Collaborative Center for Justice, and Michael Vazquez of the Human Rights Campaign, about the advice they'...

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 On January 20, 2021, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe and 12 other health, environment, and justice organizations sent a letter to Bjorn Hansen, Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) “seeking clarifications on both the applicable legal framework and risk management measures in place, for nano/biocidal-treated articles in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic.”  The letter states that “[a]s a result of laboratory te...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 20, 2021, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe and 12 other health, environment, and justice organizations sent a letter to Bjorn Hansen, Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) “seeking clarifications on both the applicable legal framework and risk management measures in place, for nano/biocidal-treated articles in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic.”  The letter states that “[a]s a re...