No women, no progress, development experts warn
Thomson Reuters Foundation Gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to human development progress, UN officials said as they launched an index on Friday showing the countries making the biggest strides and those falling behind. Niger came bottom of the annual Human Development Index followed by Central African Republic, South Sudan, Chad and Burundi […]
SLAVERY: ERRATIC AID SPENDING COULD DERAIL DRIVE TO END SLAVERY BY 2030
KIERAN GUILBERT, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at how poorly organised aid spending could be hindering efforts to tackle modern slavery…
Attacks against Copts “among deadliest acts of religious persecution” – report
World Watch Monitor Attacks by members of the Islamic State group against Egypt’s Coptic Christian community “were among the deadliest acts of religious persecution” last year, according a new report presented in Washington, DC, on Thursday. “Fifty-three per cent of ISIS attacks against the public in 2017 were aimed at the Coptic community,” described by the Islamist […]
Soundbite – The Week That Was
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