Countries have begun to prioritize health in their efforts to protect people from the impact of climate change, but only about a quarter of those recently surveyed by the World Health Organization have been able to fully implement their national health and climate change plans or strategies. Countries report that a lack of funding; the...
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Get Hired
Pakistani Women in Computing (PWiC) along with various partners & sponsors is organizing GetHired 2021 – a virtual event to bring together employers and candidates. The virtual career fair will be held on Saturday, October 9th. Pakistans top technology firms will be in attendance and hiring candidates directly from the event. The hiring portfolio this...
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Anankes longstanding ally The Gender Security Project on board as Girl Summit event partner
September 20th, 2021, (Dubai UAE): Creating an impactful digital space focusing inclusive dialogue, Anankes long standing ally, digital platform The Gender Security Project has come on board as event partner for the upcoming Ananke Girl Summit. Ananke Girl Summit is this falls top transformative virtual summit focused on enabling girls to be the architects of...
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Young People Have More Faith in Algorithms than Politicians: Davos Lab Dialogues
Overall, they hold more faith in governance by robots than humans and view corruption, climate change and stale political leadership as the most urgent risks They call for a global wealth tax to protect social safety nets and ambitious plans to digitally connect the world by 2025 40 policy recommendations were created to help policy-makers...
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Voicing Stateless Exclusion
This article is part of Ananke's Resilience Edition published on ISSUU - the special edition can be viewed here. Fight for your rights with all your heart. Because if you do not address the problem, it will keep chasing you ~ Nur Azizah Rohingya Refugee Sex based discrimination being the stark...
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Envisioning An Integrated Approach To Health
This interview is part of Ananke's special #Resilience Edition, click here to view. Jane Ohuma, Country Manager Kenya and Cluster Lead for Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda, The Fred Hollows Foundation, chats with Sabin Muzaffar about the organizations groundbreaking work in Africa, how blindness exacerbates gender inequities and approaching COVID19 with an integrated response. ...
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Art exhibition to showcase rich cross-continental dialogues around black femininity
July 15th, 2021 (London, England): HOFA Gallery and ADA contemporary art gallery (Accra, Ghana) are set to premiere an all-female group exhibition titled ‘Mother of Mankind’ which showcases the rich cross-continental dialogues around the subject of black femininity; how it is created, perceived, and deconstructed through art. On view from July 22 August 31 at HOFA’s...
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World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Harmful Online Content
Leaders in Australia, the UK, Indonesia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Singapore and other public and private sector members have come together to collaborate and share best practices to reduce the spread of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, violent extremist and terrorist content, and health misinformation New report by the Forum highlights the need to implement a...
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WHO issues first global report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, according to new WHO guidance published today. The report, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, is the result of two years of...
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One in 100 deaths is by suicide
Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHOs latest estimates, published today in Suicide worldwide in 2019. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer – or war and homicide. In 2019, more than 700 000 people died by suicide: one in...