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Carolina Schmidt, chairwoman of the COP25 and the environment minister of Chile, speaking at the closing plenary of the conference in Madrid.

COP25

Civil unrest: Costs and benefits

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“The USA has been hoarding vaccines rather than helping other nations to get inoculated”: Joe Biden got his first jab as president-elect before Christmas.

Pandemic response

Many governments are half-hearted about IP waiver

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by Achal Prabhala
by Hans Dembowski
Disarming a former child soldier in Liberia 2003.

Liberia

Well-meant is not necessarily well done

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by Dagmar Wolf
Elinat Daka in her field.

Weather forecasts

Waiting for rain – and advice

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by Till Below
by Dina Mambwe
Refugee children in Uganda are waiting to be tested for malaria.

Uganda

More malaria and infectious diseases

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General, at a meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the UN headquarters in New York.

UN 2030 Agenda

Make SDGs binding with the help of new institutions

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Columbia’s climate commitments make explicit reference to urban spaces: street scene in Medellín.

Governance

Connecting all dots

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by Monika Zimmermann
Wikipedia page in Santali with Ol-chiki script.

Minorities

The pros and cons of the Ol-chiki script

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by Boro Baski
Boro Baski
Vaccination campaign in Nairobi.

Covid-19

International NGO assesses pandemic impacts on human right

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
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