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The Fourth UN Conference on Small Island Developing States will negotiate a 10-year agenda that requires an unprecedented financing package to meet the existential scale of the challenge being faced.
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The increasing erosion rate along Guyana's Shell Beach Protected Area poses challenges for the residents and the turtles that have grown accustomed to nesting there each year.
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The funds go towards projects that fall within Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), intended to drive national development while maintaining the country's low deforestation rate.
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Some projects ceased to exist after the start of the Russian war with Ukraine, while others continue to be held, albeit often dependent on local authorities and state grants
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"I want [young people] to change their viewpoint, and I want them to accept people with disabilities as members of their same society, as their friends, as their colleagues."
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Transgender teens' visits to the doctor are almost nonexistent, and school is a very challenging environment for people who do not conform to traditional gender roles
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There are 64 countries whose laws criminalise homosexuality, and nearly half of them are in Africa. Many of the laws have origins in colonial times.
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A group of human rights and migration researchers explains how the proposed Finnish law on asylum-seekers violates the country's international obligations and human rights law.
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"My only belief is that it is better to have one more voice than one less and that having one more reporter is better than one less."
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The recent environmental disaster in Tobago — and Guyana's emergence as an oil producer — have some Jamaicans wondering if their country is equipped to mitigate the impacts of an oil spill.
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Amid this worsening economic crisis, there has been a rise in the numbers of kidnappings for money across the country.
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Persons with disabilities explain why they have launched a new national disability campaign in Zimbabwe.
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The World Health Organisation estimates that Down syndrome affects approximately 1 in 1,000 live births worldwide. However, the prevalence rate of Down syndrome in Nigeria is unknown because of a lack of data.
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"Black Cake" (the book and series) naturally brings to mind the Caribbean Christmas dessert, but the linkages the delicacy shares with the literacies of enslaved Africans are often obscured.
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-partner sexual violence(NPSV) are two of the most common forms of violence experienced by women.