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AI helps in the fight against marine litter.

Good News

Fight against marine litter and reduced under-five mortality

The two pieces of good news this month are about an underwater robot that removes litter from the sea and the succesful fight against under-five mortality.

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Amid drought and high temperatures, wildfires raged in Argentina in October last year.

Financial sector

Financial sector: important allies for net-zero strategies

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
“A pair of flip-flops does not amount to any kind of lasting prosperity”: construction workers on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Social stratification

“The promise of well-paid, secure jobs did not come true”

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by Duncan Green
by Hans Dembowski
People lining up in the Indian city of Pune to buy Remdesivir in April 2021.

Industry strategies

Repurposing offers rays of hope

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by Krupali Patel
Mask-wearing activists demand more consequential Covid-19 action from G7 in Cornwall.

Blog

G7 takes tiny steps in the right directions

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by Hans Dembowski

Agriculture

Useful insects

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by Farai Shawn Matiashe
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Multilateral cooperation

Why February 2020 became the month of lost opportunities

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by Hans Dembowski
IRC staff member taking off his personal protective equipment during Ebola outbreak in Goma in 2019.

Ebola and Covid-19

Lessons learned from Ebola and Covid-19

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by Mesfin Teklu Tessema
Participants in an event to celebrate International Women’s Day in Kabul in 2018.

Islamism

Islamist ideology has softened a bit in Afghanistan

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by Rishikesh Thapa
Pursuing geostrategic interests, western powers are still involved in former colonies’ politics: Emmanuel Macron arriving in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, in June 2020 to attend a meeting of the regional organisation G5 Sahel.

International relations

Postcolonial perspectives must be taken seriously

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by Myriell Fußer
by Adrian Schlegel
by Tanja Matheis
by Julia Fritzsche
by Florian Vitello
Mural in Soweto in 2002: HIV/AIDS was an increasingly devastating disease in southern Africa at the turn of the Millennium.

Multilateral affairs

Brief history of WTO flexibility regarding pharma patents

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by Hans Dembowski