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Child labour in fast fashion: The child-sized skeleton in your closet

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There is a disturbing amount of child labour involved in fast fashion. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, signed in 1989, encourages countries to protect children from exploitation. Hence, child labour is illegal in most countries. Despite this, there are 168 million children worldwide who have no choice but to work. […]

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Business, Society, Strategy, Sustainability
Children are the innocent victims of the asylum seeker crisis.

Australia’s Asylum Crisis: Protection or Punishment?

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Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers has been an ongoing controversy for some time. Every year, around 1 million new people seek asylum worldwide. By mid-2021 4.4 million refugees were fleeing their countries. People flee their nations for a variety of reasons. These include war, violence, hunger, and poverty. People also seek to escape due to

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Government, Society, Strategy

Poverty and COVID-19: Pandemic within a pandemic.

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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.

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Coronavirus, Government, Health, Society, Strategy
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SDG14 & SDG15: August 2021 Webinar Highlights with Sunil Murlidar Shastri

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The THRIVE project would like to extend our warmest gratitude to Sunil Murlidar Shastri for giving a guest presentation at our August Thrivability Matters webinar. The theme of this webinar was United Nations SDG14 & SDG15: Life Below Water & Life on Land. About our speaker Sunil Murlidhar Shastri is a consultant, expert and speaker

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