This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group.
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 2019 (IPS)* – The United States is no exception to the practice of modern day slavery—a crime for which it is rarely held accountable at the United Nations.
25 July 2019 (Wall Street International)* — A group of researchers conducted a study on the impact of air pollution to autism. The study, which was performed in stages over a nine-year period in Shanghai, China, involved children with ages ranging from newborn to three years of age. The subjected children included 124 who already had autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and 1,240 healthy ones (as control)1.
It was found that exposure to fine particles (PM2.5) from industrial emissions, vehicular exhausts, and other sources of outdoor pollution raises the risk of developing autism by up to 78 percent.
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Anti-EU graffiti in Corfu, Greece. Wikimedia Commons.
23 July 2019 (openDemocracy)* — The discussion about globalization can be idle, however, we live in times where its presence is increasingly important.
26 July 2019 (WHO)* —Ahead of World Hepatitis Day 2019 (28 July), WHO calls on countries to take advantage of recent reductions in the costs of diagnosing and treating viral hepatitis and scale up investments in disease elimination.
By UN ENVIRONMENT* — When a proven ecosystem restoration method also helps reduce poverty and build economic resilience, governments will often back them as a win-win solution.
24 July 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Our societies and our daily life are characterized by the exercise of control in everything that is done. Knowing laws, understanding protocols and their consequences creates capacity to deal with the system. Great allies are found in the digital world. Google is a wealth of information that allows reaching everything, one just needs to know how to type.
The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication “Illuminating Inequalities” released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.*
22 July 2019, Valencia (Spain) – FAO‘s Director-General José Graziano da Silva urged cities around the world today to redouble their efforts to promote healthier and more sustainable urban diets and food systems to tackle the increasing levels of overweight and obesity.*
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 23 2019 (IPS)* – International financial institutions (IFIs) have typically imposed wide-ranging policy reforms – called ‘conditionalities’ – in exchange for country governments to secure access to financial assistance.
While IFIs may demand anti-corruption policies, other IFI policy conditionalities, such as the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), can create new rentier opportunities, undermining government will and capacity to curb corruption.
The World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, named Switzerland as the world’s most innovative country on Wednesday [24 July 2019], during the launch of its latest Global Innovation Index, (GII) in the Indian capital New Delhi.
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