the stain of child laborpresent in all Latin Americaexpanded even more as a consequence of the impoverishment and social economic deterioration caused by the pandemic. Today it is one of the most threatening human rights violations for the future of the region, especially due to the impairment in the education of minors, according to an […]
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Sexual, racial and economic inequalities prolong the AIDS pandemic, warns the UN
The inequalities economic and social, especially racial and sexual discrimination, are prolonging the AIDS pandemic, warned the executive director of Onusida, Winnie Byanyima, in an interview with EFE. “After 40 years of fighting HIV and AIDS, we know that inequalities drive pandemics and prevent us from ending them. And that pandemics also drive inequalities, as […]
“Here there is!”, the nascent private sector gains space from the state sector in Cuba
An explosion of small shops stretches across Havana, the most visible expression of the space gained by private companies in Cuba. The so-called SMEs, authorized only in 2021, displace state businesses, which are increasingly empty. “Here there is!”, is the name of a small store recently opened in the west of the Cuban capital, where […]
Is the treaty against pandemics very timid in addressing inequalities?
Negotiations for an international agreement against future pandemics are accelerating, but some participants fear that it will be too timid against the inequalities in access to medicines, which were exposed with the covid-19. That pandemic revealed the failures of the global health system, and the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) decided […]
Criticism of the international treaty against pandemics for its lack of ambition
Negotiations for an international agreement against future pandemics are accelerating but some participants fear that it is not very ambitious to fight the inequalities in access to medicines, revealed by the covid-19. That pandemic revealed the failures of the global health system, and the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to […]
Food insecurity hits northern regions hardest
The food insecurity during 2022 it affected about 258 million people in 58 countries around the world. The figure is almost 38% more than that registered in the previous year when it reached around 192 million people, according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises 2023 (GRFC) prepared by the World Bank. This number […]
Food insecurity can be combated with trade
Achieve an increase in trade between the countries of Latin America is one of the keys to fight against food insecurity in the region, the general secretary of the Latin American Integration Association (Aladi)the Uruguayan Sergio Abreu. The pandemic and the war in Ukraine caused a loss of 40,000,000 jobs in micro, small and medium-sized […]
About 200 thousand Mypes have disappeared and that explains the poverty
A sum of factors have come together so that the situation of Peruvian micro and small companies (Mypes) is critical and that since 2021, an average of 200,000 of them have disappeared.The director of Mypes Unidas del Perú, Daniel Hermoza, maintained that, before the pandemic, there were around 2 million 400 thousand formal Mypes. But, […]
More than 30% of technology sales are online in Peru
Last year, 7 out of 10 Peruvian consumers (73%) who make their purchases online were forced to spend less on their daily needs due to increased prices, according to a study carried out by the market analysis company G.F.K.. Research also indicates that close to 45% of people believe that now is a good time […]
Amsterdam benefits from its own monster: mass tourism
After two years of travel restrictions due to the pandemic, Amsterdam it’s back to what it was: tourists en masse dragging suitcases down the bike path, and fed-up locals looking for cozy neighborhoods on the outskirts of the Dutch capital. They want to reduce a tourism that, in reality, settles the accounts to the coffers […]