‘Put people first’ in the drive to realize Sustainable Development Goals UN Photo/Loey Felipe. Lachezara Stoeva, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 2023 Session. Global economic growth’s current downsides require ‘Put people first’. That means bringing opportunities for young people to accelerate knowledge and skills applicable to the labor market through training, education, and early work […]
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Micro-entrepreneurs are the most common type of business in the world and this is especially the case in developing countries. Who are they? What do they do? And what motivates them? What are the challenges they are facing? Some of these answers might surprise you.
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Mental health is a process rather than a destination.
The goal of a holistic approach to the mental health is to put the patients at the center of the treatment plan so that no one is left behind. How is it different from the traditional approach? Does gender, human crisis, socioeconomic factors and the COVID-19 make an impact on mental health? What is the impact of holistic mental approach on the youth, in detention centers, social workers, refugees, and migrants?
In today’s podcast, we’ll try to find the answers to these questions.
Episode 1: Prioritizing Self-Care: A Holistic Approach to Mental Health Read More »
Economic slowdown may force workers into ‘lower quality’ jobs © ILO/Marcel Crozet | A woman works in a factory in Albania. The International Labor Organization (ILO) said that global employment is expected to grow by just one percent in 2023, which is lower than half last year’s level. It is anticipated that the number of
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By Qingcheng Li, Yutong Liu, and Bing Chen “The current impact investing is washing along the shores of a bifurcated world still organized to separate profit-making from social and environmental problem-solving.” Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, said. In 2007, the term “impact investing” was coined by the Rockefeller Foundation, which is new to both the investing
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By Chelsie Lee Rattigan After recently recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are entering a new crisis, the cost-of-living crisis within the UK. The cost-of-living crisis, life on low pay, rising prices, humanitarian crisis, inflation, rising energy prices, hunger crisis, homelessness, despair. These are just some examples of what the UK public is exposed to
The Cost of Living Crisis Costing the UK’s Mental Health Read More »
By Sumaia Binte Islam Today the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar region are symbols of Bangladesh’s deterrent environmental conditions. On one hand, human beings are being deprived of their basic human rights while nature is also showing symptoms of its dire conditions. On July 27, 2021 Devastating floods and landslides struck the refugee camps as a result
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By Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo Over the years, Nigeria has faced the detriments of climate change which has, according to a report by BBC, left over a million people displaced. The country is used to seasonal flooding and has continued to be a disturbing threat to the lives and properties of the people. This brings one to the
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By Mariane Gabrielle C. Cagalawan At the beginning of the pandemic, wearing a face mask felt like a burden. But as schools reopen in the Philippines, it became a hiding cloak for students, protecting them from society more than it protects them from the virus. After more than two years of COVID-19 lockdown, the Philippines
By Jingye Tang Since the Black Lives Matters movements in 2020, popular and academic appeals for further decolonization in education and pedagogy have been actively responded by secondary and higher institutions in the Global North. In the Global South where the connection between education system and colonial rule was more explicit, decolonizing education is often
