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الزراعة والتنمية الريفية والغابات
الزراعة والتنمية الريفية والغابات
Wide angle a whole new world, reimagined by women: What the pandemic says about us
The higher value placed on human life the rise of the influence of health services the medicalization of our lives the extension of state power – these phenomena did not arise from the crisis caused by the pandemic but were revealed by it.
Zoom: When jazz fever gripped the townships
Jürgen Schadeberg (1931-2020) the photographer who chronicled apartheid also documented the evolution of South African jazz for almost sixty years.
Mapping the world: Beirut: Rebuilding the future through education and culture
Already reeling from the economic crisis and the global pandemic Beirut was rocked by two deadly explosions on 4 August 2020. The blasts claimed nearly 200 lives left thousands wounded and ravaged a large area at the heart of the Lebanese capital.
Shifting borders: Invisible, but very real
Today’s borders are no longer necessarily made of bricks and barbed wire. They are increasingly becoming moving barriers that rely on cutting-edge technologies and complex regulations to impose travel restrictions on citizens. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accentuated this phenomenon.
Greece: The itinerary of a stolen stele
This is the story of a Greek funerary stele from the fourth century BC put up for sale by an international auction house in 2017. The piece was not withdrawn from the auction catalogue even after the warnings of an expert regarding its dubious provenance backed by solid evidence. It would take over a year and numerous initiatives before the stele was finally returned to the Greek authorities.
Ideas: Racism: Confronting the unthinkable
The police brutality that came into focus in the United States in spring 2020 sparked a wave of protests that extended far beyond the countrys borders. Racism whether systemic or ordinary remains deeply rooted in the minds and workings of contemporary societies the author argues.
Policy trends in advancing safe motherhood
It is a startling and sobering feet that every minute of every day a woman dies in pregnancy and childbirth somewhere in the world. This equates to more than half a million women dying in pregnancy and childbirth every year with 99 per cent of these tragedies occurring in developing countries.
Mapping the world: Education: An unprecedented crisis
The closure of schools and universities around the world to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major education crisis that reached its peak in mid-April 2020. Between 16 and 19 April schools shut down in more than 190 countries affecting 1.57 billion children and young people – over ninety per cent of all learners. Throughout the health crisis UNESCO monitored the situation globally by publishing a map of school closures on its website.
Malaria: Blood, sweat, and tears
Our guests: “We must educate algorithms”
Sexist algorithms? The question may seem odd. Coded by humans the algorithms used by artificial intelligence are not free of stereotypes. But while they can induce sexist or racist biases they can also be used to advance the cause of gender equality. This is what Aude Bernheim and Flora Vincent demonstrate in their book LIntelligence artificielle pas sans elles! (Artificial intelligence not without women!).
The pandemic: Mirroring our fragilities
Social inequalities gender violence poor housing failing health systems – the health crisis has exposed the fractures that divide our societies. To change the world we will have to address challenges that we have not been able to face up to so far.
Rethinking museums for the future
With new constraints on welcoming visitors the Queens Museum in New York City – like many other institutions around the world – is reflecting on how best to redefine our ties to art and culture. The museum’s team is working on an inclusive model that places artists educators and residents at the heart of its activities as it seeks to reinvent itself.
Social networks: The new El Dorado for traffickers
Auction sites and social networks have in the last few years become hubs for the illicit trafficking of cultural goods. Though Facebook recently banned the trade in antiquities on its platform much remains to be done to curb this relatively recent marketplace which offers traffickers a global showcase.
Pueblos indígenas: La fragilidad a prueba de la crisis
La crisis sanitaria mundial ha demostrado la resiliencia de algunas comunidades indígenas. Pero sobre todo ha puesto de relieve la fragilidad de estos grupos humanos cuya pobreza desnutrición y escaso acceso a la atención médica los hace especialmente vulnerables a las enfermedades infecciosas.
Gran angular ¿un mundo diferente? Las mujeres tienen la palabra: Revelaciones de la crisis sanitaria
El valor supremo concedido a la vida humana la potenciación de los servicios sanitarios la medicalización de nuestra existencia y la extensión del poder estatal son fenómenos que la crisis mundial generada por la pandemia nos ha revelado aunque no sean productos directos de ella.
Ideas: Pandemias ayer y hoy
Epidemias y pandemias no constituyen un fenómeno nuevo. La lepra la peste el cólera o la viruela han dejado secuelas imborrables en la historia de la humanidad. También han sido la razón de ciertos descubrimientos y de que el ser humano se cuestione a sí mismo.
Impact of hiv/aids on education and poverty
marks the thirtieth anniversary of the first report of HIV which came from the United States where cases of an unusual disease were seen among young gay men. Thirty years later the location and pace of the epidemic has changed dramatically. Globally an estimated 33.3 million people are infected or living with HIV of which 22.5 million are in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition of the 2.5 million children in the world estimated to be living with HIV 2.3 million are in sub-Saharan Africa. Southern Africa the most affected region includes a number of middle- and lower-middle-income nations known as the hyperendemic countries. In South Africa alone there are about 5.7 million
Microbicides: New hope for hiv prevention
HIV/AIDS is particularly severe in Africa where women bear a disproportionate burden of the epidemic. One of the most crucial challenges in HIV prevention in Africa is to reduce the high infection rates among young women. Worldwide just over half of all people living with HIV are women and 70-90 per cent of all HIV infections among women are through heterosexual intercourse.' In sub-Saharan Africa women aged fifteen- to twenty-four years with HIV represent 76 per cent of the total cases in that age group outnumbering their male peers by as much as eight to one.1 Although the majority of new HIV cases in the United States are through male-to-male sexual contact heterosexual contact accounts for 84 per cent of new infections among women.
The imperative for faith communities: Overcoming the hiv/aids epidemicthrough stigma reduction
That AIDS is a scourge which continues to fatally wound the physical cultural social economic political and spiritual health achievements hopes and aspirations of individuals families communities and nations is probably an established phenomenon that does not need much debate.
HIV/AIDS + education: Lessons from the 1980s + the gay male community in the United States
Knowledge is power: If we learned anything in the gay male community during the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States it was that. No one knew what had hit us and people were dying in huge numbers all around us. The community lost friends colleagues and intimate partners. Initially mislabeled “gay-related immune [deficiency” (GRID) valuable time was lost in responding to the crisis because most felt safe in the belief that they were not at risk. Since early victims were predominantly gay men the stigma attached to homosexuality in the medical governing law enforcement and ecclesiastical institutions became a barrier to understanding prevention and treatment.