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U-Report helps reduce violence in COVID-19 pandemic Format © UNICEF Haiti/2020/Edler Launched in Haiti in 2019 by UNICEF with financial support from Canada, U-Report currently has more than 28,000 subscribers across the country Jean Panel Fanfan Launched in Haiti in 2019 by UNICEF with financial support from Canada, U-Report currently has more than 28,000 subscribers across the country. It is a powerful tool as young people have frequent access to a phone. During COVID-19 lockdown, U-Report helps increase understanding of violence against children in the home. 15-year-old Anne Jensley, sitti...

Information and Communications Technology Job in UK, requiring 10+ years of experience, from Save the Children; closing on 23 Mar 2021

Characteristically, Gates’ approach to global problems put technology and his chemical, pharmaceutical and oil industry partners at the center of every solution. As it turned out, Gates’ “ African agricultural practices have evolved from the land over 10,000 years in forms that promote crop diversity, decentralisation, sustainability, private property, self-organisation and local control of seeds. The personal freedom inherent in these localised systems leaves farm families making their own decisions: the masters on their lands, the sovereigns of their destinies. Continuous innovation b...

Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible. The Coming of Neo-Feud... Kotkin, Joel Best Price: $30.51 Buy New $19.54 (as of 04:06 EDT - Details) Thomas Jefferson believed that the success of...

Manzoor Qadir is an environmental scientist with over 30 years’ experience in the fields of policy, institutional and biophysical aspects of water recycling and safe reuse, water quality and environmental health, water and food security, water and land management under climate change, and unconventional water resources. He holds a PhD from the University of Agriculture, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Before joining UNU-INWEH, he held senior scientific positions at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Water...