According to the World Health Organization, 45% of all abortions worldwide are unsafe. More than 22,000 women die from these unsafe procedures every year. As it often happens, women from poor, rural, and marginalized communities suffer disproportionately. The fact is, banning abortions do not stop them from happening, nor do restrictive abortion laws. It just […]
Abortion Laws: Conflict and Consequences Read Post »
Health, Lifestyle, Society
The term zoonotic disease refers to any infectious disease that came from non-human animals. These diseases then spillover to infect humans. Spillovers means “the processes that enable a pathogen from a vertebrae animal to establish infection in a human,”(Sánchez, et al. 2021, pg. 4). When considering that “about 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic,” (Espinosa,
Zoonotic diseases and food production: Preventing the next pandemic Read Post »
Coronavirus, Health, Lifestyle, Science, Sustainability
COVID-19 became officially a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020. Nobody then could have guessed its long-term socio-economic impacts. Like all global disasters, the pandemic hurt low income and vulnerable communities the most. Let’s explore the link between poverty and the pandemic. Globally, the virus has been deadlier and more transmissible among low-income communities.
Poverty and COVID-19: Pandemic within a pandemic. Read Post »
Coronavirus, Government, Health, Society, Strategy
According to UNICEF, 129 million girls around the world don’t go to school. For most of them, this is due to outside factors which prevent them accessing education. The main example of this is widely recognised to be poverty. It is somewhat ironic then, that education is also one of the best cures for systemic
Six ways educating women and girls can end poverty Read Post »
Health, Society
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 aims to ensure no person goes hungry by 2030. To achieve this, we will need to address food security, improved nutrition, and sustainable agriculture. However, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation found that nearly 690 million people, or 8.9 per cent of the world suffers from hunger. As a result,
7 Ways to Achieve Zero Hunger Read Post »
Environment, Government, Health, Society
From solar farms and electric vehicles to everyday items, sustainable green innovations are everywhere. Some of our biggest needs have come a long way, including sustainable sources of food and renewable energy. Yet when it comes to menstrual products, disposable pads and tampons can be costly for the user and the environment. Fortunately, reusable alternatives
Sustainable Menstrual Cups: How Periods Can End Poverty Read Post »
Environment, Health, Innovation, Lifestyle, Society, Sustainability
Globalisation elicits mixed opinions. Is it good for us? Or is it a bad thing? One thing for certain is that it has a major effect on cultural diversity. The internet and social media have allowed global connections and the exchange of ideas to happen at an unprecedented rate. The magnitude of these changes is
Modern World Globalisation: Challenges on Culture Read Post »
Health, Lifestyle, Society, Sustainability
Before we migrated to a modern lifestyle, we were hunters surrounded by nature. Humans have been around for at least 60,000 years. It was only in the past 6,000 years did we begin to live in urban environments (Mark, 2014). There is still limited knowledge on the complex interconnection between green spaces and individual and
Green Spaces and Community Health – Returning to our Roots Read Post »
Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Society, Sustainability
Many large cities across the world are in danger of becoming all but unlivable due to rising local temperatures. In cities, air, surface and soil temperatures are almost always warmer than in rural areas, with temperatures often up to 10C hotter. This is the urban heat island effect. Urban heat islands are most evident in
Urban Heat Islands: How we can cool our cities Read Post »
Environment, Health, Society, Sustainability
Poaching and Illegal Trafficking The term ‘poaching’ refers to the illegal killing, capturing, shooting, or trapping of wild animals, and the corresponding system of global trafficking (Conrad, 2012). Such trading of illegal wildlife is approximated to generate between seven and twenty billion USD annually (Sosnowski & Petrossian, 2020). Furthermore, these processes have existed as high-priority
Wildlife Trafficking: How it affects Covid19 and other zoonotic diseases Read Post »
Coronavirus, Health, Sustainability
