World Menstrual Hygiene Day is celebrated worldwide on May 28. Started by a German nonprofit WASH United in 2013, May 28 was chosen to represent the average length of a period, which is five days, and the average menstrual cycle that lasts 28 days. World Menstrual Hygiene Day aims to reduce the stigma around periods, […]
The only constant in the oil market is its volatility as oil is notorious for its price fluctuation. Prices can increase due to economic growth that raises the demand for oil. Prices can also drop due to shortage fears during unstable conditions, a visible reality with the implications of the Russian-Ukraine war. The Iraqi economy […]
On July 4, 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ministry of Health announced the conclusion of the Ebola virus outbreak that impacted the Mbandaka and Wangata health zones. The Ministry of Health officially declared the outbreak on April 23, 2022, after establishing the presence of the Ebola virus in a 31-year-old male who died […]
According to World Bank records, Kenya’s poverty rate is expected to stand at 33.4% in 2022. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an additional 2 million Kenyan people into poverty amid disruptions to Kenya’s economic activity. School closures further exacerbated inequalities between rural and urban areas, especially with inadequate access to education being more pronounced in […]
Poor urban merchants set up open-air stalls on sidewalks and unused motorways in the lively urban center of Durban, South Africa. Their offerings range from cooked bovine heads to traditional indigenous medicines. Over half of these nearly 25,000 merchants are women; many have children or infants who spend their days alongside their working mothers. A simple convertible wooden box […]
The African Court on Human and People’s Rights had to make a pivotal decision regarding the right to education for pregnant students in Tanzania. On November 19, 2020, Equality Now and Tike Mwabipile, executive director of Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (TAWLA), filed a joint application to the African Court on Human and People’s Rights to […]
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine, resulting in the death of thousands of Ukrainian citizens. This decision has led to many fleeing the country, the separation of families, and the most significant refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. Putin’s crimes have brought forward a dreadful reality for […]
With the highest GDP per capita in South America in 2020, Chile’s growth in the last few decades has been viewed as a model for Latin American development. Adopting a laissez-faire approach, the government shied away from significant spending on welfare, with the few existing programs geared toward middle and upper-class Chileans. However, recent administrations […]
“The [human trafficking] situation was much worse than we first envisaged,” says Maxwell Matewere from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Malawi. “I even witnessed a kind of Sunday market, where people come to buy children who were then exploited in situations of forced labor and prostitution,” he says to the […]
Protests in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, threaten to hamper an already struggling economy. A city-wide shutdown occurred on August 8, 2022, over the government’s decision to postpone the 2022 decennial census until 2024. On one hand, Santa Cruz’s legislators believe that delaying the census is an attempt to deny the municipality more political […]
