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The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on Monday received 13 off-road vehicles and 34 motorbikes from the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth

A new report makes 18 recommendations to re-charge and rebuild the Garden State workforce in a post-pandemic economy

In civil society this week we remember Marikana, the Kathrada foundation discusses the impact of July’s ‘failed insurrection,  the ICESCR-Civil Society Coalition campaign unpacks the Right to Health, and Equitable Access to Covid-19 Health Technologies and Corruption Watch launches its thi...

The Malawi United Kingdom Nurses Association (MUNA) has donated oxygen cannulas to some of the country’s largest and busiest health facilities so that they are well equipped following an escalation of Covid-19 infections in the country in the last few weeks. One of Covid-19 most devastating effects on a patient is that it interferes with […]

American Medical Association Faces Backlash for Calling to Remove Sex From Birth Certificates Posted on The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest organization of physicians and medical students in the United States, came under fire over the weekend for a recent proposal calling to end the designation of (sex) on birth certificates. The proposal (pdf), which was adopted by the by the AMA’s board of trustees in June, states that recording the baby’s sex on the public portion of bi...

A better start? A progress check on donor funding for pre-primary education and early childhood development Format New analysis by Cambridge University academics warns of a chronic lack of funding by global leaders Less than 1% of the global education aid budget goes to pre-pre-primary education 8 of the world’s top 30 donors to education give nothing to pre-primary education Eight in 10 of the world’s poorest children – almost 50 million boys and girls - are missing out on vital educatio...

US Executive Branch schedule for June 1 includes commemoration for the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, will speak on the coronavirus response and economy later in the week.

A webinar on Strategies for Dealing with Pandemic for Equitable Access to Vaccines, was organised on Friday. KURUKSHETRA: "We have moved a bill in the US House of Representatives to extend 20 billion dollars aid to Covid-hit countries. Under the Nullifying Opportunities for Variants to Infect and Decimate (NOVID) Act, the Biden administration will provide 80 million extra doses of vaccines to developing and low-income countries. US plans to vaccinate 60 per cent of world population to create th...

Global Health Summit: Rome Declaration Format We, Leaders of G20 and other states, in the presence of the Heads of international and regional organisations meeting at the Global Health Summit in Rome, May 21, 2021, having shared our experience of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, and welcoming relevant work in this regard, including that presented during the pre-Summit, today: Reaffirm that the pandemic continues to be an unprecedented global health and socio-economic crisis, with dispropor...

G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ Meeting Communiqué (London, 5 May 2021) Share I. Preamble 1. We, the Foreign and Development Ministers of the Group of Seven (G7), and the High Representative of the European Union, are meeting today at a critical juncture for our people, our planet, our security and our future prosperity. Democracy is under pressure globally; the pandemic continues to pose acute global challenges; new technological threats are mounting; and the catastrophic effects of ...