Development

Scientists Urge Reform for a Broken Global System

By Stephen Leahy
Unless governments work actively to build a brighter future for humanity, climate change, poverty and loss of biodiversity will worsen and continue to exacerbate existing global problems, top scientists warned ministers attending the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) governing council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.

Op-Ed: How Gender Values Point the Way for a More Effective U.N.

By Alisa Clark
A growing list of U.N. Security Council Resolutions acknowledges the importance of gender in processes for peace. Resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888, 1889 and 1960 note that women continue to be marginalised in peace negotiations and their potential is not fully utilised in humanitarian planning, peacekeeping operations, peace building, governance and reconstruction.

Barbados Looks to Beaches as First Line of Defence

By Desmond Brown
Like most of its neighbours in the English-speaking Caribbean, Barbados's main economic asset is its coastal zone.
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